No one alive will experience a better climate than we have today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future.
No one will experience a better climate than today, that’s true.
But the crucial part of this chart is the 3° gap between the best and worst possible outcomes.
Support for gay marriage went from less than 20% to over 80% in less than a decade. We can make major changes. Cynicism is acceptance.
But the gay marriage was a no brainer because it cost nothing to anyone. Making the climate better requires sacrifice. Still think we should try to be positive.
But never forget: it's the immigrants fault!
- rich people
- rich people
well, yeah, but also the vroom-vroom assholes - there are so many who fight efficiency and buy the biggest truck our the loudest most ridiculous exhaust for their sports car, they literally derive enjoyment from making things worse. And then there's the smooth-brainest, the coal rollers, who fuck up their shit intentionally to make it spew toxins they can maneuver onto peds and cyclists.
the world is burning, when are we going to turn some of this focus back to a modicum of personal responsibility?
That's all true, but the rich have outsized power to influence the system. They have an impact on education and politics that in turns breeds the "vroom-vroom assholes", the coal rollers, the right-wingers, the anti-abortionists, the "my way or the highway", the tankies, and so on.
More successful people are fine, but those super, mega, ultra rich fucks who play the system to fuck the world for the rest of us, those fucks have to be taxed back into normality or get a visit from Luigi.
More successful people are fine, but those super, mega, ultra rich fucks who play the system to fuck the world for the rest of us, those fucks have to be taxed back into normality or get a visit from Luigi.
hope springs eternal.
Vroom vrooms don't matter as long as we keep shipping shit around the world and burn coal for energy
nope. it all matters now. every fucking bit matters. we're already at 2c.
it's all got to matter from here out.
does anyone else think about this as assholes drive by vroom vrooming co2 into the atmosphere for fun?
I get pissed just seeing people idling their engine just to run the AC while their spouse shops or whatever.
We can still make it better for people that are about to be born
Need more Luigi's.
The extent to which current and future generations will experience a hotter and different world depends on ~~choices now and in the near-term~~ how quickly we compost the rich.
Wouldn't composting just release more greenhouse gasses? We need a more effective means of carbon capture, or maybe directly repurpose them as some sort of nutritional paste
Composting sequesters much more carbon than it emits, if done properly. It's not like we're cremating the bodies, where the carbon is released to the atmosphere as CO2.
Oh huh, interesting... 📃✍️
That’s very sad.
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that's me in 2050 im out y'all
If we are lucky we will only experience the intermediate effects
yup. every time I read about private jets flying to get food, or see a car speeding down the street doing 60 in a 25, revving their shit at lights, I think: how much are you robbing your children?
don't they love their own kids? how is our society literally burning - but people can't make the obvious connection?
I know we can't de-carbonize every source instantly, but the selfish pricks who burn it for fun need to be taxed at the very fucking least
yawn
Good infographic, looks like its part of a bigger piece though, have you got the source?
It's a figure from the latest IPCC report
Thx for sauce!
Ah cool, cheers!
Depends on the definition of good. People like remote workers do seem to prefer warmer locations when given the opportunity to relocate
And that's why we should resist and reject the works of these mofos
they're boilng us alive like frogs sitting in a pot going to work everyday
Hence, it's time to look for answers to act my friend! I personally suggest reading The Ecology of Freedom from Murray Bookchin
At some point a a super volcano will go off and we will turn back into a snowball.
Already 60°C in thermal sensivity in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. If the end comes, It will not be with a bang, but as a sloooooow cook. And it's happening right now so: Time to act!
Gambling is part of the problem. You can't rely on luck.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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