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They are in complete denial. Imagine approaching death right as it's impossible to deny your generation personally fucked up the future of civilization itself.

In my experience you now get one of: 1. The weather has always been like this, 2. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop, 3. Oh well, I'll be dead soon so it's not my problem.

I live in an area where ice used to be an industry. Not even a minute drive from my house is a lake where they'd cut big blocks of ice and ship them downstream to stack and pack in sawdust and such to last the rest of the year. This area supplied a lot of the ice for the city of Philadelphia because closer to the city the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers were too dirty and no one wanted ice from them.

This went on until around 100 years ago, maybe even a bit longer, my dad in his 70s remembers his grandmother still getting ice delivered for her icebox for part of his childhood until she finally got a refrigerator.

My friends dad, who was a bit younger than my dad, used to tell stories about how the local creek would freeze over in the winter and he and his friends would ice skate down the frozen creek to get to another town about 5 miles away.

I actively keep an eye on ice conditions around me because I would like to try ice fishing some day. It's only been a handful of times over the last decade or so where any body of water around here has frozen over enough for it to be possible, and even then it's only been just the absolute bare minimum 4 inches and I'd ideally want another inch or two before I felt comfortable enough to actually try it.

I've never even seen that creek freeze over enough that even some foolhardy kids would be able to try skating on it, I've seen it get maybe 1 inch of ice, and even that was a rare occurrence, they'd break right through if they tried.

These are things that people around me should remember or at least should remember their parents and grandparents talking about, not something that's totally out of living memory, and yet they still refuse to see it.

I had an extremely weird conversation a while ago. A coworker had never heard of global warming before. They listened intently as I explained, expression making it apparent that they were honest about their obliviousness.

My grandma died back in 2019, but before her death she was hard into every type of climate change denial. She was also a lifelong evangelical christian, and used to make it super awkward when I would hang out with a friend who was black. In the years before her death she would send me links to things proving that that historical climate statistics are lying, and climate change is just a hoax people are using to make money. She was also huge into bible codes, and huge into Israel.

Not really sure where I was going with that.. but I have a suspicion organized religion is to blame.

I don't understand. Is it arrogance or are they somewhat aware that they did this, that they are responsible and that they're leaving this mess behind for the rest of us?

My parents bought a retirement property byba lake in the middle of nowhere and pit a boat on a lift on the dock. But the lake is a water supply lake, and their dock is only about 4-5 feet deep when the lake is full, which is only for about a week after a major flood these days.

Most of the time when I visit I end up driving under the boat with the lawnmower. It's just a really expensive porch swing at this point. We can't even take it to a different lake because it's stuck on the slings

To admit they agree with you would require them to admit they did nothing to stop it for decades despite mountains of evidence.

Not to mention they'd have to give up conveniences they've grown accustomed to or be labeled hypocrites.

I want to build bridges between generations more than anything but it's really hard when being wrong and inconvenienced are two things boomers hate

Here is the original comic by Shen.

The really cool thing about climate change is that even as the average temperature of the planet increases, winters get more and more severe. Think about how damn hot the rest of the world has to be if one continent is experiencing record lows while the overall temperature of the planet is hotter than average

Spring:

In Canada, when can we get that winter?

Not my experience. The winters have been super mild these last few years, but now there is like a cold wave (analogous to a heat wave) for like a week or two where it gets really cold. But we've also had a week of snow, followed by nearly 20°C on Christmas Eve. The weather is all kinds of fucked.

ur acute :)

I went to a country on the equator that cracked the code. Live at the equator but on a bigass mountain many thousands of feet in the air and you’ll get the consistent days and weather but at a temperature that won’t roast puny AC adapted people alive 😭🧠

Ive been rocking the shaved sides long top look. I usually keep it up in a pony tail or bun. its the best of both worlds, you get the coolness of short hair (mostly) and ability to style if thats your thing.

I stumbled upon a new wikipedia article about this heatwave that mentioned Sweden recorded a new all time temperature high (like most areast hit by the heatwave). In Germany (where I live) we just had three consecutive days with each recording a new all time high, all above 41°C. Sweden's new record high is 32,sth°C. I know where I wanna live during future summers.