you ignore it until you can't anymore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There's also a New England region in Australia. NSW is New South Wales.
Nice. Ty.
-
Pretty sure they're talking about New South Wales, Australia?
Well, I'm a dumb American... So..
-
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
-
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!'
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's more that "meat free Monday" will do nothing whatsoever, the problem is pollution from large corporations
Exactly. But hey, use paper a straw and lie to yourself that you're having an impact lol.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Possibly the only good idea ever conceived by Bill Gates was to release fine chalk dust into the upper atmosphere. We could even attach delivery systems to passenger jets so they release the dust at 30,000 feet which is cruising altitude, so this is done automatically with every flight. Chalk dust is non-toxic and even helps some plants grow. But leftists and "indigenous groups" (aka leftist groups wearing a mask) complained about it being a bad idea.
If we can't terraform Earth, how the hell do we ever move off-world and colonize other planets? This is the easiest world we will ever get to terraform and if we can't do it here, we sure as hell won't do it anywhere else.
-
It's more that "meat free Monday" will do nothing whatsoever, the problem is pollution from large corporations
It will do something. The demand for meat will fall, the more people who don't eat meat. Defeatism is not only unhelpful, it's also wrong.
-
I would suggest mining asteroids, using the material to craft thin foil mirrors with 3 axis gyroscopes then positioning them at L1 Lagrange in order to selectively reduce incoming solar radiation to a safe, custom level, but obviously our ruling psychopaths will simply use it to block light to countries that don't pay up, and to focus it on countries to burn away undesirables.
And of course then we'll all have to pay a sunlight bill.
We're going to have nuclear fusion before we have asteroid mining. And I'm not saying that fusion is anywhere close.
-
Listen to the experts, they have plenty of things the average person can do that don't require you to commit terrorism.
wrote last edited by [email protected]those experts say that the individual efforts to curb global warming is insignificant compared to other methods. its a waste of time akin to telling everyone to recycle, only for the dump to mix it in with all the other trash.
its theater to make people think that they are doing their part so they don’t band together and demand action. just like the ‘good’ protesting we do in the states is designed in a way to give people the illusion of making a difference all wile being easily controllable, and easily dismissed. when considered that its actually used as a method of control, preaching for individual efforts to curb global warming is worse then doing nothing because you stand in the way of the conversation that must be taken to actually solve the problem.
-
But why? Some people are still hurt by it's usage, we have other words.
Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of "protecting" people who don't really mind?
-
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.
I no longer see the way out like I used to.
Don't worry, the next step is not even caring about it.
Is it worse for the world? Yes.
Is it easier on you, personally? Absolutely.
Regards for like 30 years people kept saying I worry too much. I could never let go. Never. Then something broke a few months ago or smth.
And this is what I look like now.
Apathy is the greatest weapon of the oppressor. It fucking got me. Don't let it get you, if possible.
-
This post did not contain any content.wrote last edited by [email protected]
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.
-
Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of "protecting" people who don't really mind?
I think about 5% of the time it's someone who's actually affected, and 95% of the time it's performative moralising. Of course there's no way of telling which time is which...
-
I no longer see the way out like I used to.
Don't worry, the next step is not even caring about it.
Is it worse for the world? Yes.
Is it easier on you, personally? Absolutely.
Regards for like 30 years people kept saying I worry too much. I could never let go. Never. Then something broke a few months ago or smth.
And this is what I look like now.
Apathy is the greatest weapon of the oppressor. It fucking got me. Don't let it get you, if possible.
-
Possibly the only good idea ever conceived by Bill Gates was to release fine chalk dust into the upper atmosphere. We could even attach delivery systems to passenger jets so they release the dust at 30,000 feet which is cruising altitude, so this is done automatically with every flight. Chalk dust is non-toxic and even helps some plants grow. But leftists and "indigenous groups" (aka leftist groups wearing a mask) complained about it being a bad idea.
If we can't terraform Earth, how the hell do we ever move off-world and colonize other planets? This is the easiest world we will ever get to terraform and if we can't do it here, we sure as hell won't do it anywhere else.
Chalk dust is non-toxic, but it's not safe to inhale in large quantities.
Adding calcium carbonate to soil increases its alkalinity and fucks with trees.
This is a good example of a simple, easy to understand solution to a complex problem that's completely wrong. It's the opposite concept to KISS. Terraforming is not simple or easy to understand because of the possible side effects.
