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I am glad that I survived oil outage, sour rain, the Ozone hole, mass famine because of overpopulation. All in a lifetime. I must have had sheer luck.
by jhoechtl 3y ago
I am glad that I survived oil outage, sour rain, the Ozone hole, mass famine because of overpopulation. All in a lifetime. I must have had sheer luck.
- adrianN 3y agoThere was massive concerted effort to stop acid rain and ozone depletion. Maybe we should try that for the climate crisis if we want similar success at preventing catastrophe.
- refurb 3y agoAmazing how the ozone hole repaired itself despite China releasing thousands of tons of CFCs. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/23/china-factories-releasing-thousands-of-tonnes-of-illegal-cfc-gases-study-finds https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/23/china-factorie...
- styfle 3y agoThe article doesn’t seem to support your claim. “After the ban came into force, global concentrations of CFC-11 declined steadily until about 2012. However, last year scientists discovered the pace of that slowdown slowed by half between 2013 and 2017. Because the chemical is not naturally occurring, the change could only have been produced by new emissions.” “If emissions do not decline, it will delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, possibly for decades”
- refurb 3y agoCFC-11 is one specific CFC, you need to look at all of them. Overall they’re increasing, yet the ozone layer has continue to “heal”.
- quickthrower2 3y agoA bear is chasing you. “Glad I survived crossing a dangerous road, smoking a cigarette and unprotected sex”
- slaw 3y agoRecently I survived covid exponential deaths apocalypse and Al Gore's sea levels rising in 2016.
- moffkalast 3y agoCovid was no joke, 3 million people died despite the entire world grinding to a halt and hiding in their houses for months. Sea levels are up 10 cm since Gore was VP and it's accelerating.
- slaw 3y ago61 milion people died in 2023 with and without covid. Al Gore predicted 20ft by 2016 not 10cm.
- ben_w 3y ago> Al Gore predicted I see no predictions by him. What I do see are examples of him selectively quoting other people and that he was in turn selectively quoted himself. This is also why you shouldn't rely on politicians for anything. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/
- slaw 3y agoAl Gore got Nobel prize for PowerPoint presentation.
- ben_w 3y ago"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." Which was extra ironic, given Kissinger reportedly said to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin "I figure it like Groucho Marx said 'any club that took him in he would not want to join'. I would say that anything Lê Đức Thọ is eligible for, there must be something wrong with it." while Lê Đức Thọ declined the prize, on grounds that such "bourgeois sentimentalities" were not for him and that the Paris Peace Accords (for which he and Kissinger had been awarded the prize) were not being adhered to in full.
- getlawgdon 3y agoYour list is a 1.75. What's occurring and coming fast is a 9.9. Thanks for sharing the kind of naivete that helped get us here.
- BodyCulture 3y ago[flagged]
- TOMDM 3y agoCome on, it was a bad prediction with some pretty bad consequences. Yes some racists adopted it because it fit their agendas, but it was hardly fascist on the whole.
- paulcole 3y agoAlso you’re in what, likely the top 10-20% of the wealthiest people on Earth?
- baq 3y agoYeah, but are you building a bunker in Hawaii? Because Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker in Hawaii.