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[-] aloeha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Time to get out the guillotines. Socialism or extinction.

[-] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Porque no los dos?

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[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Where I'm from, we were massively talking about it in the 80s when I was a kid. It promply stopped by the end of the 90s. Then all of sudden, we don't hear much about it.

It's so fucked up to be told all your life that your are insane to believe in climate change, and then about 40 years later, most people talk about it as if it was a given.

We should not be anxious about climate change, we should be furious.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember the topic from school in the 90s, where it said "if we don't start to do anything about it soon, it will have serious catastrophic consequences in about 30 years". And now here we are.

[-] IrrationalAndroid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was a kid in the early 2000's and I remember that page from the science book that we were reading during class, and it was also already alarming us about climate change/global warming. And like you said, here we are...

[-] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody stopped talking about it.

Its that the channels that we watch news on have now been fragmented / specialized to the point where we can "watch the news" and only get right wing propaganda.

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same generation here. I really think boomers and their selfish politics are greatly to blame for lost momentum.

[-] Jonna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fuck generational politics. There are class, gender, and racial divisions within each generation. We have more in common with working class and oppressed boomers than with ruling class members of our own generation.

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[-] nadwwwimni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

The hottest 21 days so far!

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Seriously! I give it pretty good odds this runs for a full month, then we'll probably get some relief with days that are only near record-breaking 🥵

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[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not true. Fake news. Everyone knows that for the first few hundred million years after Earth first formed the average surface temperature was 80C (176F).

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"ever recorded" - there was nobody around to record the formation of the earth.

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[-] gornar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'll always upvote this, until The End comes

[-] Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

We just had the coolest three weeks for the next 100 years! Awesome!

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, the planet was destroyed in the name of insatiable capitalist greed.

But for one shining moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders!

(and just to be crystal clear, not you)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

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[-] Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the British Petroleum summer heat wave. Next up is the Exxon Mobile Hurricane season.

Fun fact about the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, oil and gas platforms can get insurance against a storm in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, but homeowners in Louisiana can't get any homeowners insurance due to the expected severity of the named storms in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season.

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[-] DildoTeaBaggins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

But this snow in my hand not melting is proof it's all a hoax . /s

Dreading what's to come.here in France. We've got rain and 25 c ATM while rome and Spain are burning up. Sure it's going to come our way shortly.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I had to put on a coat the other day. So clearly global warming is a conspiracy to make the world a better place for no reason. I'm not having it, that's why I burn a barrel of crude oil every night in my garden.

[-] dontblink@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Come on guys, it's our turn to remedy to this disaster and to make the world a better place!

We can totally do it. Let's work togheter and let's work hard, there's nothing more beautiful than to think of possible solutions that would make us all live better.

[-] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We can totally do it. Let’s work togheter and let’s work hard, there’s nothing more beautiful than to think of possible solutions that would make us all live better.

Maybe we can. But climate preservation is clearly not working: Humanity is not disciplined enough, not capable of working together enough and too focused on short term gains.

I think our only hope for optimism lies in climate engineering and full-on terraforming, it's more our style. But of course, it's about just as scary and can go totally wrong.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

But climate preservation is clearly not working: Humanity is not disciplined enough

We are but we have to reach absolute tipping point first we only turn back from the edge when we're right on it. That has always been how governments operate.

Up till the Cuban missile crisis the American military were all about using nukes in every possible situation for in even a small conflict. After the crisis they started to back off from that policy. The insanity of it was always clear, but until we actually got to the edge no one was prepared to act.

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[-] Thirdborne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I always thought it it was frightening enough to realize, if you were born in the 80's, every year of your life had been the hottest year on record. Will stacking hottest days consecutively hit harder? I get the sense that it won't hit all that hard until the capitalists can no longer keep off-loading the cost of climate change on the public. The outcry at that stage should be something to behold. I'm really sorry to the younger people watching us all give up, but every year of our lives has been the hottest in history and nobody has done anything about it no matter how willing we've been to do our part.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well this is it boys, hug your loved ones, make the most of the time that we have left. Shit feels like what the people at Horizon Zero Dawn felt.

[-] derf82@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Moving past tipping points. With permafrost melting, sea ice melting and not reforming, and fires in the boreal forest, the feedback loop is developing. We are going to blow past 2 degrees C way faster than anyone predicted.

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[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In torn between following my dreams and dedicating my life to attempting to help the climate crisis by going to school and inventing some tech to help

and giving up entirely, coasting through life with my stable government job, and drinking to forget until the day I hang myself...

This world is fucked, should I even try? Or should I just hope in reincarnation?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

The problem isn't tech to help the environment, as far as I can tell. It's more getting the people in charge to actually do something about it.

I think the French once invented a device for that, I forget what it was called.

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[-] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well if no one does anything it won't be better should reincarnation come around.

I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not.

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