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Huh, didn't expect Nintendo to be the one to get the post apocalyptic world right. All hail our future Squid overlords I guess
I traveled through France via train and this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer and kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This is the new normal and it is catastrophic.
I live close to the french border and while it's really bad here - our forests already switched to autumn mode due to heat stress and dryness - it's much, much worse once you drive around an hour west.
unsettling is an understatement. I get the feeling people are avoiding the topic - not denying - but avoiding it, so they don't have switch into full panic mode.
And more of those AI data centers are going to catapult this into perpetuity. So, are we sure this isn't the march toward literal "Hell on Earth?"
So, when do we drop a giant ice cube in the ocean?
We've already got giant ice cubes in the ocean, but they're melting!
We just need to get some more ice on a nearby comet or something, thus solving the problem once and for all.
But
ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
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a comet perhaps like the old days.
Don't worry everyone, the next set of world leaders will take swift action on climate and fix it, just wait. We can't do it now, the numbers are up.
If there's a government left that is...
More than just France. I went to Ireland this summer, and I have been several times before. In a country that is normally cloudy and rainy, it was sunny and bright. It didn't rain for the 10 days I was there. That sounds nice, but everything was dried up, it was sad. What is normally a drive through the lush and green countryside, was a drive through the brown and dry midlands. Not seeing those rolling hills of emerald green really bummed me out.
Although snow in winter in Ireland is rare, it used to be much colder. Over 15 years ago, my mates and I would walk in mornings to school and we would slip on frozen footpaths during winter. Now, the winters just tend to be warmer with more rain. Roads don't really get frozen anymore apart from the rare snow events that happen every couple of years. The north gets more snow but anecdotally it is getting lesser and lesser over the years.
Same in a lot of the UK, it straight up does not snow in the winter where it used to in the place I grew up. I live in Wales now and it's scary seeing such a wet country so dried out, it's not natural.
how did you get there?
I flew to Ireland so my relatives could meet my children for the first time. I make that trip maybe once every 3 to 4 years.
If your response to climate change is to shame ordinary people for occasionally getting on an airplane while billionaires take private jets, oil companies fight renewable energy, and massive corporations produce pollution on a scale no individual could dream of matching, then you're aiming your anger in the wrong direction.
My "once every few years" flight is a rounding error. Telling regular people they shouldn't travel, see family, or enjoy their lives because corporations and the ultra rich have spent decades wrecking the climate isn't environmentalism. It's just shifting responsibility onto the people with the least power to fix the problem.
Or in short: I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
You probably are in the 10% - anyone earning over $55,000
You feel entitled to an "occasional flight" so i assume your overall behavior leads to emissions typical for this group. You use 9 times you share.
A roundtrip flight from London to Dublin alone is already 25% of you yearly CO2 budget. From New York to Dublin its 80%.
But sure, the billionaires....
Remember this on your next flight, look down at the once green now brown wasteland and then at your children. It was you doing this.
Tell me more about how if we all live in tents, that will offset the pollution from the data centers being built. Maybe if I walk my kids to daycare on the days it rains (I already walk them in good weather), the government will invest in green energy. Defending billionaires? Son, you must be lost.
I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
Best way to travel, tbh.
If your response to climate change is to shame ordinary people for occasionally getting on an airplane while billionaires take private jets, oil companies fight renewable energy
the people doing the occasional flight and driving to work in their car are the same assholes voting for politicians who enable billionaires to own private jets and fly themselves.
While this is Ireland, look across the sea at the UK, in a sane world those ass hats flying occasionally and driving their car to work would all be voting Green, to both move the Overton window and to tax billionaires, ban then fron using private jets, make transport more environmentally friendly and lower emissions. Similarly Canada, Germany, France, NZ, Australia and on and on
We do know who is to blame, every voter in a democracy not voting to move the Overton Window to environmentally sustainable politcans.
Shame on them for perpetuating the orthodoxy and enabling the destruction of the biosphere and shame on people for not calling them out on it, the outcome of which is the inevitable collapse of civilisation.
I don't recall mentioning how I voted, so that's a wild assumption.
And if the standard is that you're not allowed to criticize an economic system unless you've completely removed yourself from modern society, then nobody is allowed to criticize anything. I assume you didn't mine the silica, manufacture the chips, build the device, or construct the network you're using to post this comment.
Participating in a system because it's the system we currently live in isn't the same thing as endorsing every consequence of that system.
Let me know when you're living off the land detached from society completely. I'll make sure to send you a post card.
In the womb of a beast that blights fire upon the countryside as it beats a million tiny wings, so fast they boil the air itself
Why do you ask?
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Commercial airliners are only about half as efficient as other kinds of mass transit (busses, trains) in terms of fuel/mile/person, this isn't the gotcha you think it is.
where did you get those numbers? i call bullshit
Seems to check out compared to the average bus ride, though. And long distance busses are popular in a lot of countries (including Britain), because they're often much cheaper than long distance trains.
That was my first reaction but then I thought about it a bit longer and realized that it's not reasonable to compare a local bus ride that stops and starts every other junction, with a transatlantic flight.
The long distance buses are listed there at 27g, which is a shade over 1/10th of a domestic flight.
Huh, you're right. I was looking at "Bus (average)", thinking the regular local bus was represented by "Bus (local London)".
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10311
https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability-indicators/carbon-footprint-factsheet
I suspect "domestic flights" in the UK are pretty different than the US (a brief search indicates the average flight is around 4 times longer in the US, and planes are far more efficient during the middle of their flight compared to the ends, but average passengers per flight is a little harder to find for both countries to properly figure that out)
Thank you for the reply. "Your" numbers are not in fuel/mile/person but in energy/mile/person. So an electric train is much better carbon emission wise than it suggests. I was aware that flights and ICE cars are equal-ish per distance, but the takeaway from this should be to not fly or ICE-drive long distances and not that flying is ok.
Flying is really bad and billionaires as well as common people alike should not be allowed to do it. I do not understand why we still have to discuss this.
The first one is measuring BTUs and converting but the UMich information is straight carbon emissions per passenger mile and planes are only ~30% worse than commuter rail in the US by that metric. It's really not the apocalypse you're making it out to be.
deniers will be like "it is two more days into august that is why"
So I'm from northern Italy and I remember travelling to southern years for the first time over 20 years ago and noticing how dry and yellow everything looked in the summer, which was unusual for someone used to green vegetation even at the peak of August.
Guess what it looks like this year here in the North? "Summer's always been hot, you were just younger" my ass.
While it's focused on France. It also shows how bad it is in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Spain is a bit more prepared for conditions like this, but the rest (Inc France) really aren't. The consequences of this potentially becoming the new normal are alarming, to say the least.
potentially becoming
Not only potentially, it is going to become the new normal. At least for a while, as who knows how it will be, when AMOC really gets going.
Europe's climate isn't dominated by 1 or 2 core effects. It's a balance of multiple competing ones. Climate change is affecting a lot of those, at the same time. It's hard to predict which way things will tip. E.g. if the golf stream fails, then we could get FAR colder winters.
Some of the new potential balances are more unpleasant/annoying, others are more deadly.
Unfortunately, we will see how it plays out over the next few decades. Short enough that us and our children will take the brunt of it. But long enough that a lot of leaders won't care yet, they won't live to see it.
The heat index is 119 degrees where I'm at in Texas right now. That's enough to be lethal for many people.
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It even goes up all the way to Britain, and all the way east as far as the map reaches.
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Don't sorry people. Gerhard on <insert any "social media platform> said, it has always been warm in summer.
Oh shit
Holy fucks....
I believe it's spelled "drow". Satellite images are impressive though, they're notoriously hard to see from the sky.
Spent sometime trying to understand why a fictional race is relevant, did you mean "drought"?
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