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Today I went to work, worked in the garden, made dinner, cleaned the dishes and waited for the world to end.
by avgcorrection 3y ago
Today I went to work, worked in the garden, made dinner, cleaned the dishes and waited for the world to end.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI mean that's pretty much all an individual can do. Drop in the warm ocean. Personally I'm convinced we've passed the point of no return a long time ago, and even if human emissions suddenly dropped to zero the balance would be disturbed for decades or thousands of years to come.
- bwestergard 3y agoA less bad future for human beings is still possible, if we change our institutions.
- taberiand 3y agoBut that would mean a more bad present, and we can't be having that can we?
- mistermann 3y agoThat may depend on the efficiency level humanity is currently running at, my guess is we are running somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%. Don't be scared, homies!
- bwestergard 3y agoWould it? More than half the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was emitted in the last thirty years, and a small fraction of the global population accounts for most of the consumption those emissions made possible. Many people whose consumption is very great complain of time stress, diseases of affluence, a sense of purposelessness, etc. Going back to the per capita material and energy throughputs of the 1960s by raising consumption for many and decreasing it for a few could easily make both groups significantly better off.
- jvm___ 3y agoI think it's at least a 100 as the carbon rises through the atmosphere? So we've locked in warming until the 2100's at least. My optimistic side says that technology will fix it (AI & superconductors?) and we'll look back on this like we look back at kids doing nuclear war drills in elementary school during the cold war.
- orwin 3y agoIt takes 20 years for Co2 concentration at the required altitude to equalize with what's emitted at ground level, and the half life of Co2 is more than a thousand years.
- busyant 3y ago> AI & superconductors? I have a feeling that there will be some massive humanitarian crisis--mass migration due to floods maybe. Then some nation(s) will roll the dice and go for the quick 'fix' of tossing reflective 'glitter' into the atmosphere.
- jvm___ 3y agoOr Elon will put up a ginormous film screen and we'll sunshade the Earth?
- wongarsu 3y agoMy money would be on China unilaterally putting a giant ultra thin foil in geosynchronous orbit over parts of their country. Everyone will act outraged, but as positive results for nature and agriculture roll in everyone will rush to copy them.
- busyant 3y ago> Personally I'm convinced we've passed the point of no return a long time ago Yep. I have a variation of Hofstadter's law. Climate Change Law: "The amount of time it will take to see the dangerous effects of global warming will be shorter than estimated. Even when taking the Climate Change Law into consideration."
- avgcorrection 3y agoThose kinds of comments from me are mostly therapeutic. (The cynical name is shitpost)
- throwaway5371 3y agohttps://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c
- avgcorrection 3y agoGeorge Carlin is the type of person who would make the following joke: I hate racists, sexists, misogynists, and other people who hate people unevenly: I am the kind of person who hates everyon equally! And then he would get a roaring applause for being the worst kind of cynic that exists: someone who has no ideas or thoughts other than pandering to people's sense of self-importance.[1] Truly glad that that waste of space is dead and buried. [1] https://xkcd.com/610/ https://xkcd.com/610/
- naillo 3y agoSince I'm personally gonna die anyway whether this is a thing or isn't a thing, then honestly at this point I've just decided to not care and live my life as happily as possible with the time left (maybe humanity deserves it if it doesn't have the evolutionary makeup to make it out of this, I'm sure there's other species on other planets that will).
- ChatGTP 3y agoYeah, I guess all the babies and other species deserve to be obliterated?
- batch12 3y agoSo you propose to be unhappy and dwell on the things that one can't control? I have heard no realistic solutions, just soothsaying and hand wringing. Give me something real that I can do, that I'm not already doing, and I'll do it. I choose to not be miserable and panicked about it though-- it's a pointless exercise.
- agentultra 3y agoCool. Go to your city council meetings. Argue to remove minimum parking requirements. Argue for mixed use zoning. Support public transit projects, affordable housing projects. Check out: https://www.climatechangemakers.org/playbook-parking-mandates https://www.climatechangemakers.org/playbook-parking-mandate... https://www.climatechangemakers.org/preview-contact-your-city https://www.climatechangemakers.org/preview-contact-your-cit... Contact your local government leaders and tell them what policies you’re pissed about. It’s free and takes only 30 ish minutes of your time or less. Point is that we can organize and there are things we can do.
- batch12 3y agoGood ideas. Fortunately, most of these things aren't issues where I live.
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- jvm___ 3y agothe world is about to end and my grandparents are in love BY KARA JACKSON still, living like they orbit one another, my grandfather, the planet, & grandma, his moon assigned by some gravitational pull. they have loved long enough for a working man to retire. grandma says she’s not tired, she wears her husband like a coat that survives every season, talks about him the way my parents talk about vinyl— the subject salvaged by the tent of their tongues. grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? will i go taking somebody’s hand, my skin becoming their skin? the digital age is taking away our winters, and i’m afraid the sun is my soulmate, that waste waits for a wet kiss, carbon calls me pretty, and i think death is a good first date. i hope when the world ends it leaves them be, spares grandpa and his game, grandma spinning corn into weight, the two of them reeling into western theme songs, the TV louder than whatever’s coming.
- jfengel 3y agoThe world doesn't end for a while. But the things that will end it are causing problems now. If this climate change were natural, I'd be sad at how much it will cost to save what can be saved, and how much will be lost. But I myself won't live to see the worst of it. What makes me angry today is that the same climate denialists are applying equally motivated reasoning to make a lot of people's lives worse right now. Climate denialism is a conspiracy theory, and they see conspiracies everywhere. American national discourse is non-existent because every issue is immediately shut down with "if you want it, it must be part of your attempt at world domination." The reasoning is appalling, but they've been trained on climate change (among others) to accept just outright stupidity. And I'm at a complete loss for what to do. Everything I believe in stems from being able to make a solid case and have it be accepted by at least a majority. If that fails the alternatives are awful.
- mistermann 3y agoAs a conspiracy theorist myself: one thing you could do is try to raise the quality of your own thinking to meet the level of your self-perception of it.
- saiya-jin 3y agoThings will have to get worse, so folks will see direct impact on their lives, not just some reports in news. That's crossing the line even dimmer part of population will react to, since it will be sort of survival instinct. Probably not valid for Alaska. But yeah we 'lost' in past few years non-trivial part of population and the correction is nowhere in sight. Discussion doesn't seem to be possible, facts on one side and bad emotions on the other are missing each other pretty badly.
- avgcorrection 3y agoPlease. Rational people like researchers for the petroleum industry have known about this for many decades and yet (because of their employment) worked against the truth. Meanwhile rational people who believe it and are telling the truth have no radical solutions, only bike-to-work platitudes. I don't care about conspiracy theory losers. They're not powerful enough to put the blame on. At least not the majority of it.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoThis is why the world is ending...because there are people like you who know they'll be relatively fine and thus don't care.
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- avgcorrection 3y agoI don't know what possessed you to think that worrying about the future of the world every day is not-caring.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoSorry, I misunderstood your post now that I re-read it again. I see we got into a tiff but that was my hot-headedness. My apologies for real.
- green-salt 3y agoThis is pretty much what I do. Its out of our hands and the people who can make the changes don't care.