you ignore it until you can't anymore
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"It's only going to get worse."
That's the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren't intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.
It's looking more and more like we're a failed experiment.
Our selfish survival instincts that allowed us to get to where we are now will also be our downfall.
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I'm surprised there has been so little ecoterrorism in response to climate change.
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Nah but we're getting rid of the NASA satellites that monitor this so we won't see climate change anymore
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The ending is what really got me.
They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
If that's your attitude, why are you waiting until later to open your home, share meals, or lend your car to people?
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So they ignored it until they couldn't anymore.
No, brother. The dead ignore everything. Not even the death of our sun will wake them.
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No, brother. The dead ignore everything. Not even the death of our sun will wake them.
Ignoring something requires intent.
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I'm not implying we shouldn't try. I'm advocating a realistic view of the situation. Too many have their heads in the sand.
No I know, I agree with you. I just feel compelled to make that statement because without it people might be more complicit in the destruction of their world after reading yours.
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I'm surprised there has been so little ecoterrorism in response to climate change.
I was expecting some kind of analog to the terrorist groups of the 70s in Europe for sure. But all the violence is coming from the other side.
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Ignoring something requires intent.
Does a mountain ignoring a man mean that the mountain has the capacity to take notice?
Ignorance is simply entropy by another name. Information is energy, and ignorance is the absence.
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
I was sure that would decimate their voter base, between those who died and those who were left to see the fall out.
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I believe in man made climate change, just not from burning fossil fuels. Now let me tell you about the promise of geoengineering...
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Eh, at this point can we just agree that word doesn't apply to people with actual disabilities? It hasn't been used as such for decades. Maybe we just agree to only use it to refer to morons, the same way "moron" was once a medical term.
Didn't the words moron and imbecile follow along a similar line of etymological evolution that the r-word went through? Yet imbecile and moron are considered acceptable offensive words to use. To be honest it's why I don't really care that much about the r-word itself.
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If that's your attitude, why are you waiting until later to open your home, share meals, or lend your car to people?
Theft, money, insurance.
I wanna change the world, but I still have to live in it first.
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Can we ban the phrase "politics isn't my thing"? Saying it is punishable by 1 hour in the nearest town stockade.
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Most Americans thinking in Fahrenheit are gonna think this doesn't look so bad.
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Does a mountain ignoring a man mean that the mountain has the capacity to take notice?
Ignorance is simply entropy by another name. Information is energy, and ignorance is the absence.
Definition of ignore: refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally.
A mountain doesn't ignore anything because it doesn't have the capacity to be aware of anything to then choose to ignore it.
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Bordeaux today: 43°C feel like: 49°C
Wtf, in France? This is insane. I live in Australia where days above 40 are expected, but in FRANCE?
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The ending is what really got me.
They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
Yea, it's the ending line
"We had it good"
that really got me. The resignation that there's just things out of your control even if you go down fighting.
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"Global warming" was always a weak formulation of the problem, and "climate change" is even weaker. I prefer "Anthropogenic runaway global heating" which has the handy acronym ARGH.
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What we actually need is classes on critical thinking - basic formal and informal logic as a mandatory part of school cirriculums at whatever age it is appropriate.
We also need to move away from the hierarchical top-down mode of education we use today.
I agree and Science is inherently a subject that teaches critical thinking because of the scientific method.
I do feel like our society also suffers from most our society being run by business majors and lawyers who build careers on ratfucking and storytelling.
