you ignore it until you can't anymore
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The problem is that ordinary people can only do so much to prevent climate change, any real impact can only come from above, by goverment regulations and the ultra rich following those regulations and doing their part, unfortunately the filthy rich control the government and they would rather take 16 min flights in their private jets, the planet be damned
The problem is deeper: I doubt any single government can stop the climate change, and any international agreements are doomed to fail because someone would say they are getting the short end of the stick with green stuff and nothing in return. Plus there would be no accountability for not meeting the targets.
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In that same vein, frearms are now the leading, primary cause of death for children and teens, in the US.
Boomers largely do not believe this, I've argued with several even here on lemmy about this, provided data, studies, they never admit they're wrong.
Absolute explosion of mass shooting events, victims are far more likely to be Gen Z or Gen A.
Again, firearms have killed more children in the US than car crashes, cancer, etc, for several years in a row now.
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens
Just checked this, you're right. It's a useful clarification that what the school teaches nowadays is also right but a different methodology. Schools often teach that accidents cause the most deaths, then health, then homicide, then suicide, and that car crashes are the most common kind of accidents. This is true.
On the other hand, if you group by both mechanism and intent (still among ages 15–19, though 10–14 is similar but at a smaller scale), you have unintentional car crashes in the lead, ahead of firearm homicide by about four hundred. Combine this with undetermined and accidental firearm deaths, and the lead shrinks to about three hundred. Meanwhile, there are over a thousand cases of suicide by firearms, and (nearly?) no logged cases of homicide by car.
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Since the audience seems to miss the same point over and over again, it might be less than necessary
Or they might be the wrong audience, a little of column A and B. Of course the arts are about communication, which requires effort on both parties, so each side bears some of the blame. But "we need to create something so obvious that nobody will miss it" just ends up producing people who are more oblivious. The computer simplification trends of the 2000s and 2010s resulted in a generation that knows even less about technology.
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It is just a common thing that it doesn't make interesting news. Same for how many traffic deaths there are.
You say that, but infuriatingly I'm always amazed by how much above the fold top national news story reporting gets allocated to traffic deaths.
"4 year old girl dies in crash on the M1"
Okay, that's terrible, but is it really a good use of the nation's time to read about how lovely this child was and how tragic the crash was? Are there not maybe more informative and educational and useful news stories you could be pushing to the top of the news, rather than this?
You'd think it was some backwater news broadcaster but no, this is from the likes of the BBC. Wild.
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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.
I like it when people use ecocide. Like ecological murder, destruction.
Words are important!
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You want to wall off Victoria and Queensland?
SA too.
We got a problem with ACT being in the middle. I say we dig under it and yeet it over to WA.
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I like it when people use ecocide. Like ecological murder, destruction.
Words are important!
Good word, but needs more connotation of "suicide" as well.
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50 is "cook an egg on the hood of your car" weather, lol.
To me, 72 degrees is standard room temperature.
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"If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any," Trump asserted.
He's so smart
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The solution is stop having children. It's far more effective than changing diet, living car free, recycling, et al combined.
And killing yourself is very effective
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And killing yourself is very effective
Not as much as killing someone else!
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Work from home, buy less stuff, eat less meat, and most importantly throw all billionaires feet first into a wood chipper.
The problem is real. the past few years it's been raining as much as snowing during polar night in northern Norway.
Sure but walking home is gonna do jack shit, we gotta focus on the wood chipper part
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I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.
We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.
Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
~Utah Phillips
Inb4 pedant quibbles that "the planet itself is not dying." Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are. It should be understood that is what Mr. Phillips meant.
The ruling class is feeding us all into a planetary autoclave, just so they can hoard more wealth. And they KNOW it.
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Sure but walking home is gonna do jack shit, we gotta focus on the wood chipper part
wrote last edited by [email protected]Work from home. You know, naked from the waist down during zoom meetings, etc.
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And killing yourself is very effective
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's the "Final Solution"... after you're sure not to make babies, of course. That's key to the solution.
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“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
~Utah Phillips
Inb4 pedant quibbles that "the planet itself is not dying." Yeah, but we and our fellow creatures are. It should be understood that is what Mr. Phillips meant.
The ruling class is feeding us all into a planetary autoclave, just so they can hoard more wealth. And they KNOW it.
I think we also should consider the machine of civilization can't be stopped once started. Steering it is a monumental effort. My best guess is they don't care, or simply can't alter the course we are on.
