Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Well, there’s been decades of warning about dependency on Russian gas too. Complacency
Some of it was even intentional (at least Germany).
[muffled Gerhard Schröder noises in the distance]
plus ignoring adoption of ACs.
"But it's expensive to build houses with IR emissive paint on the walls and roof, that money could be spent on buying insulation made out of petrochemicals."
I’m almost at the stage of being really interested in how fast the changes will happen. I wasn’t expecting to see so much change over the last 20 years and the next 10 look to be turbocharging.
That said, I really worry about the world my grandkids are going to inherit.
My wife and I opted out of the procreation game, mostly because we could see where things were going when we were in our twenties.
We get to watch the fall of civilisation in real time, and point and laugh guilt free where applicable. Watching what happens to the US over the next 20 years will be fucking hilarious, for example. Watching as it turns to desert from the core outward with supertornadoes peeling strips off and hurricanes that redefine measuring scales pulverising chunks of what isn't literally on fire. The parallels with the evangelical nutters' fairytale God tier smiting will be something to behold, and I am totally here for the whole thing.
Profitability and convenience.
well there was kinda a common direction with developed countries to try to reduce what we were doing and then something changed in 2017.
Same reason I spent many evenings frantically completing projects the day before they were due despite being given weeks or months to prepare: why do something now when you don't technically need to do it until later?
apparently EU has teh most heat related deaths compared to other countries, they dont seem very keen on adopting ACs.
Dumb bitch juice.
Pass that bottle here
I got that from philosopher guy on YouTube that did the Luigi video that got taken down.
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