you ignore it until you can't anymore
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Maybe this is just my media bubble, and I’m not saying I haven’t seen any articles about it, but I feel like remarkably little attention overall is being given to how many fucking people are dying in these heat disasters. Not just this one, but over and over.
Yes, but they're poor and brown and far away, so who cares, right?
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It's not that I don't pay attention or try to conserve energy, but I'm so powerless to affect real change. It kills me to be raising children in this world.
Try out meat free Mondays.
They'll stop factory farming so much if less people buy meat.
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It's been unusually wet and cold in New England NSW. (edit: New South Wales, Australia) Seems to make some sense with extra heat meaning extra water in the air, meaning more water to fall out of the air when it hits the 1.4km high great dividing range.
It seems China also copping extra water.
Changing air currents and AMOC / SMOC also causing some interesting changes in weather distribution.
yeah, higher temperature makes everything more wet in general. consider the tropical areas near the equator, they're the wettest regions on earth.
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I live in SW france, +40°C today, 3 months with barely a drop of rain. It's pretty obvious this region is going to look like Extremadura in a decade or 3.
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Try out meat free Mondays.
They'll stop factory farming so much if less people buy meat.
Nah, they'll just start a new anti-vegan anti-vegetarian campaign and everyone will eat it up.
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No its not just you.
Climate coverage drastically diminished roughly during Covid, never came back, despite us blowing through the 1.5C limit 2 years ago now, insurance companies in the US more or less abandoning roughly the southern third of the US due to their own climate models, despite the AMOC destabilizing, despite us recently realizing the SMOC has actually been destabalized for a decade and is actively deteriorating.
Yes, there is clearly an active push to just ignore it, it's been driving me insane.
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trump is bought by the fossil fuel industry. it doesn't make sense for the US to not import solar panels. cheap energy drives manufacturing, and solar is cheap.
It's simple: there aren't any "big solar" companies that could pay trump or most politicians more than big oil (chevron, bp, shell, exxon) companies do.
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Nah, they'll just start a new anti-vegan anti-vegetarian campaign and everyone will eat it up.
Okay but you can control your own actions. Don't you want to be better than all the sheeple? Or do you want to be bad because they're just as bad?
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yeah, higher temperature makes everything more wet in general. consider the tropical areas near the equator, they're the wettest regions on earth.
And water vapour acts as a greenhouse gas, so there's one of many catastrophic feedback loops
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I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I'm tired of being reminded of this ten times over when I feel the most powerless to stop it than I've ever felt in my life. Now more than ever, all I see is a neighboring government undoing the little progress that we've made in the past decades I've spent worrying. I no longer see the way out like I used to. This only makes me feel miserable.
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Okay but why the r-slur
I heard Cartman say it's ok to use it now and he is my moral compass.
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30p once claimed that coal is a renewable fuel source because it comes from trees.
The carboniferous period would be rolling in its grave if we hadn't dug it up.
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Are you implying everyone is dead? Because that isn't the case.
Even if it sucks, that doesn't mean you have to make it suck even more. That is counter productive.
Stop your doomerism and actually DO something. Life is far from being over. Even if it it takes loading everything in a vehicle and moving away. The US is not the center of the Earth.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The US: “haha the French surrender a lot”
Reality: The French actually protest shit and US citizens will roll over and die if you tell them cheeseburger prices might go up a dollar if they resist.
I’m in Canada and we’re really not much better in many ways, but we can always look to the US for comfort knowing we’re not that bad.
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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.
Soooo many other words, just pick a better one.
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There's also a New England region in Australia. NSW is New South Wales.
Nice. Ty.
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Pretty sure they're talking about New South Wales, Australia?
Well, I'm a dumb American... So..
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Okay but you can control your own actions. Don't you want to be better than all the sheeple? Or do you want to be bad because they're just as bad?
It's more that "meat free Monday" will do nothing whatsoever, the problem is pollution from large corporations
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It's not that I don't pay attention or try to conserve energy, but I'm so powerless to affect real change. It kills me to be raising children in this world.
I feel you, I'm in the same boat. They constantly preach this shit at us but without major systemic change we're fucked. So we get to just listen to people blasting it continuously stressing us out on the incoming Armageddon with little else we can do except 'hurr eat less meat and make sure to recycle!'
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It's not that I don't pay attention or try to conserve energy, but I'm so powerless to affect real change. It kills me to be raising children in this world.
Exactly. You try to conserve water and use less power to try to help the planet, meanwhile Elon Musk is burning several million tons of gas to run Grok.
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The US: “haha the French surrender a lot”
Reality: The French actually protest shit and US citizens will roll over and die if you tell them cheeseburger prices might go up a dollar if they resist.
I’m in Canada and we’re really not much better in many ways, but we can always look to the US for comfort knowing we’re not that bad.
French surrender jokes are a British thing, not American.
