Microblog Memes

There's been a 73% decline in global vertebrate populations since 1970. We're in the beginning of a very serious mass extinction and it's kinda like we don't care which is interesting.

You know what would help this situation?

AI

Lots and lots of AI.

Also more religion.

We could really use a covid-style lockdown for a few years.

I expect climate change to be consistently worse than the mainstream predictions.

There's a huge political incentive to err on the side of downplaying than to exaggerate, and those models should have been bad enough to make the point.

Climate change deniers: "I'll be dead by 2050, why do I care?" or "Fuck you, I got mine already."

Reality: FAFO.

Nobody cares anymore now that datacenters and AI exist.

Oh good we are ahead of schedule

I am convinced all the climate change predictions were WAY too generous and reality is gonna be far worse.

The cynic in me imagines that the media purposely promoted the longer timelines to lull people into thinking we had more time, and so there was no rush.

Doesn't matter what your intentions are.

Doesn't matter what earnings you posted this quarter.

Doesn't matter if you believe in climate change.

Doesn't matter if you need this truck.

You're on this rock of wind and water and it'll do what it needs, to get back to it's equilibrium. That might be at a level we don't exist anymore nature is emotionless and you can't control it.

This is one of the reasons my spouse and I opted to not have kids. This place is doomed.

Chat are we cooked??

And people continue to deny that global warming is real...

Truly wild.

I'm in the northern us and traveled to Austin, TX for work recently.

I departed at 72 degrees and raining and landed in 98 degrees with a 78 dew point. It was a heat index of 116.

I understand exactly why the world is burning, watching all the people scurry from AC to AC in a state which derives most of it's power from fossil juice. And then of course, everyone is driving a monster vehicle and coal rolling pedestrians and e scooter renters.

We're so fucked.

Idk how to convince people anymore. I am tired and sad

That's 43 celsius? Holy shit, good luck to the french, it will soon be everyone.

This depresses me so badly. I don’t think we can fully grasp right now just how bad the next few decades are going to get

I've accepted that we won't survive the coming storm. Covid showed us that people couldn't be bothered tonwear a mask or get a shot to fight off a disease that was visibly killing millions. If we can't come together on that, there's no way we'll come together to survive the climate crisis.

But car goes WROOM WROOM!

You can argue with scientists all that you want to, they're not infallible, it's true.

But you were warned for many decades, don't act all shocked and surprised.

Yeah just don't fall into the old mistake of weather = climate. Heat waves happened before climate change as well. But our current changing climate makes them more likely to happen more often and more intense, if I am informed correctly.

The fictional one has something along the lines of "as usual" while in reality it's exceptional (for now). Though europe is especially affected by climate change, due to some meteorological phenomenas. And it's concerning that we get a few more over-30°C days each year.

Edit: language. hard.

As a Person Living In France, I can confirm it feels like someone put an oven in every room. Even places with A/C mostly can't keep up with the heat. The only safe space is the car with working A/C.

We are rapidly reaching temperatures where life becomes impossible, and we'll need to be indoors from May to October. And we are just getting started.

Just woke up. It's 6 am and 28 c.