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Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday
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#23In the mean time, China is adding more and more solar, and is ahead of schedule in decarbonizing. Maybe there is still some hope.
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#24And the ice-age ended on Tuesday the 19th.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some areas the climate change is creating too much “wetland” which poses a different set of issues. We’ve had record amounts of rain here in Denmark, and the local farmers should probably look into farming rice, or maybe seaweed, if it continues. Which it probably will since the records we broke were set in 2019, which in term broke records set one of the years before that and so on. Looking at the graphs, however…
> Looking at the graphs, however, we should go back to covid society, well, without all the dying. With the dying you save the environment way faster. "We should go back to covid society" just means let's all be ascetic monks. There's too many people in the world. We don't need more wetlands or this or that, we just need to understand that a population that grows without limits always destroys itself, that's all. Wha…
We'd need a human beings cap in millions to have a lavish lifestyle with managable consequences to environment. And probably in low hundrends. And even then if everybody lived like a king we'd be fucked.
I'd also say that more asceticism would produce a healthier society. Current western consumerist society isn't healthy for anybody. Neither the planet, nor humans.
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#26Welp. Time for a conference we all fly to using private jets to tell the plebs how it's their doing that's destroying the planet. Maybe agree on a tax or something that screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect on the global climate.
Let us do not forget about plastic straws. Let's ban plastic straws.
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#27It’s not critical, it’s arbitrary. The earth is warming, it’s going to keep warming. What we should do is focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading. The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.
well... it does help to motivate the lazy. sometimes.
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#28In the mean time, China is adding more and more solar, and is ahead of schedule in decarbonizing. Maybe there is still some hope.
While adding more coal power plants in the process.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-pla...
Re: Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday
#29Welp. Time for a conference we all fly to using private jets to tell the plebs how it's their doing that's destroying the planet. Maybe agree on a tax or something that screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect on the global climate.
Which "tax or something" screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect on the global climate?
Re: Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday
#30It’s not critical, it’s arbitrary. The earth is warming, it’s going to keep warming. What we should do is focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading. The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.
> The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.
That is one angle to influence politicians, though. In public they like to claim moral superiority.