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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

Man, oceanographers have been shouting this for decades. And let's just throw marine biologists/marine chemists in there as well. Ocean currents are stupidly powerful, to have them stop is scary beyond comparison. The warning temperature lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth, literally acidifying the ocean past the point of habitability for everything but jelly fish... Good bye oxygen. It was fun hanging with y'all, break out the good stuff because you aren't handing it down to the next generation.

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 year ago

It was fun hanging with y'all, break out the good stuff because you aren't handing it down to the next generation.

Parents often say that they love their children and would do anything for them, but they didn't love them enough to give their children a habitable future.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 48 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's fair.

If there was something they could do as an individual which would help only their individual child have a habitable future, they would absolutely do it.

Thing is, everything they can do either only works if we all do it or only helps every child equally (a tiiiny bit) while costing the parent individually.

It's a coordination problem. Humans lack the structures to coordinate as a species (the largest unit of coordination we have is a nation and even that doesn't work well).

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Are you a boomer or were you raised by a boomer because I call bullshit. The "me" generation could have done a lot of things and didn't do any of them.

Most of them don't actually love their children. Not the way we mean it today. The children were left to figure it all out on their own. Ask any gen X or older millennial.

Children weren't outside because people were less fearful, they were locked out of the house and forced to fend for themselves.

The only loving families for most were those portrayed in television.

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[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah it isn't fair that i punch everyone equally because climate change is everybody's problem.

The least they can do as a parent is tell their children to reduce, reuse and recycle, Using public transportation or cycling to go everywhere, turn off the lights or electronics when they're not using it. It's a small thing but if everyone does it slowly earth can be a better place.

If we teach our child to do good for the environment our child can teach their children to do more good and before you know it it becomes a generational effort.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

none of that would have ever made any difference. the scale of industrys vs individuals is staggering.

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I know, it's the least they can do. It's like the parents abuse chain if we can educate the next generation to do better while we try the best we can do to fix.

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I know, it's the least they can do.

You bought into corporate propaganda that individuals are responsible for climate change and not the top 100 polluting corporations.

Hook line and sinker.

There is absolutely fucking nothing that recycling does to stop this. Most of the developed worlds “recycling” gets shipped to third world nations who dump it in landfill or the ocean.

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Just because corporate make a bigger pollution doesn't mean that you shouldn't do the right thing. If you don't want to recycle because they just dump it elsewhere it is okay you can reduce your usage or reuse it.

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[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

“What I do won’t matter” said by every individual is exactly how nothing changes.

Sure the ocean won’t suffer for the loss of a few individual drops of water. But if there are no drops of water at all, there is no ocean.

We are all drops.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Man, oceanographers have been shouting this for decades. And let’s just throw marine biologists/marine chemists in there as well. Ocean currents are stupidly powerful, to have them stop is scary beyond comparison. The warning temperature lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth, literally acidifying the ocean past the point of habitability for everything but jelly fish… Good bye oxygen. It was fun hanging with y’all, break out the good stuff because you aren’t handing it down to the next generation.

[-] potpotato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

“lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth”

Wouldn’t increased CaCO3 dissolution increase pH? I’m surely misunderstanding you — presumptively there’s less compensation allowing more CO2 / carbonic acid?

I’m out of my depth…

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 84 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, some world leaders are absolutely perplexed as to why their citizens aren’t choosing to have children.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

I like how my head switched from how scary an alien invasion would be to thinking that aliens coming here and fixing this mess is our only hope at this point

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 year ago
[-] sdrawk@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We'd literally have to halt all emissions and start massive "rewilding" projects to turn this puppy around. Remember 2020 when human industrial activity paused for a while and nature took some time to take a breath? We will need things like that but all the time. Perhaps have arbour day a monthly thing? Perhaps close all factories over the weekend? Perhaps move to 3 day weekends? Perhaps make an ordinance that 50% of each country needs to be natural untouched protected wilderness? Who knows? We need a lot of solutions NOW.

[-] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

But how am I gonna get the newest iPhone within 24hrs then? Ever thought about that? Does anyone care about me?

[-] excitingburp@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. I'm worried that we're already in the feedback loop.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. I'm worried that we're already in the feedback loop.

[-] statist43@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. I'm worried that we're already in the feedback loop.

[-] Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not everyone will be amicable, the capitalist boomers will still hear it in one ear and then let it exit the other ear.

Aliens/"work of God" is needed.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Corporations are hell bent on ushering in an environmental hellscape so they can keep up their profits and they're doing a pretty good job considering how many politicians they have in their pockets.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's too late

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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

In the 2000's alien adoption stuff and aliens in general was huge. Every week there was another american redneck that got abducted by aliens. I sometimes couldn't sleep at night thinking about it.
Now i fucking wish aliens would abduct me.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

i'm so glad i don't have to worry about retirement

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

What branch of the military are you hoping to serve in during the Water Wars?

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, like we will get to pick... we will be in the meat wave corps my brother

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

It doesn't follow that large scale drops in human population happen within the next few decades

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scientists, probably: our models or data are incomplete so can’t fully explain or predict this. We should investigate to refine our models

Conservatives, most likely: scientists are wrong about global warming again. Why should we listen to this?

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Scientists should stop trying to predict Gods will.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

So should the people who believe in Him.

[-] _hovi_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Assuming you're joking, this is why /s is sometimes required

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Can someone tell me whether sea level rises are still a concern and if so, why no one seems concerned?

When I was a kid that was the big scary climate change thing. I know it's maybe only 50cm but that's still problematic for lots of real estate... isn't it?

Like just the other day I visited an expensive apartment that would've been maybe 50cm above sea level.

[-] Chetzemoka@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The rising of the sea is astronomically slow, so there's a lot of denial about it. It's already a minor (maybe moderate?) problem here on the east coast of the US. Boston, NYC, and Miami are already seeing more flooding during storms than they saw historically.

But if there's someone who is willing to pay for a waterfront property despite the risk, then there will always be someone willing to sell it to them.

But here in Boston, we're finally starting to see new construction projects taking future sea level rise into account: https://www.baysideupdate.com/#:~:text=By%20raising%20the%20Project%20Site,and%20protect%20the%20surrounding%20neighborhood

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

It remains a concern; and is proceeding at a few mm per year.

I'm seeing it affect local planning in a meaningful way where I live, and is demonstrably affecting property values in low-lying areas.

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[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The problem isn't just the level the seas rise to because of melted glaciers; it's the increase in chaos in weather systems - storm surges like the ones blasting mansions off of cliffsides in cali, crazy flooding, more hurricanes of increased intensity, etc

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[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Florida can't sink quick enough

[-] dave@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

As opposed to an omen of the …

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

. . . past, correct. An omen of the past is always, very . . . ominous.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

No shit. Well, lots of shit actually. And, it’s about to hit the fan.

I never thought my desire to turn my own game off would actually be an asset, but it sure does make accepting the inevitable an easy pill.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

I recommend getting counseling and engaging in activism.

How bad it gets is very much under human control still

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


From his office at the University of Miami, Brian McNoldy, an expert in hurricane formation, is tracking the latest temperature data from the North Atlantic with a mixture of concern and bewilderment.

Across the unusually warm Atlantic, in Cambridge, England, Rob Larter, a marine scientist who tracks polar ice levels, is equally perplexed.

The current El Niño weather cycle is also leading to additional heat in the Pacific Ocean and allowing more energy to be released into the atmosphere.

Recent research has suggested that as glaciers melt and more fresh water enters the Atlantic, a crucial ocean current could falter, potentially leading to drastic changes in global weather patterns, such as a rapid reduction in temperatures across Europe.

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo and became a New York City icon, died last Friday after he flew into a building.

In Central Park on Saturday, mourners carrying flowers and binoculars wandered among some of Flaco’s favorite oak trees, searching for the right spot to pay tribute, my colleague Ed Shanahan reported.


The original article contains 1,138 words, the summary contains 176 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

Lol @ the abrupt left turn to Flaco the owl.

[-] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

First Harambe, now Flaco.

We're two already horsemen deep and nobody seems to notice

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[-] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Came for climate doom, stayed for Flaco.

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