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planet ishumans are really fucked
For want of a more succinct meme - I swear there was one that just said “Silly humans…” | “I’ll be fine.”
This really misses the point. Humans are taking the majority of other species with us. It doesn’t matter that we are not destroying the entire planet forever, of course life will go on, but triillions of animals and plants are going to suffer and die entirely because of our actions.
Eh, from the perspective of Nature that’s kinda just how it goes. Honestly it’s pretty noble that we bother thinking about it at all. Mosquitoes don’t feel conflicted about spreading malaria, and they’ve probably killed more animals than us. Fungus doesn’t feel conflicted about killing plants. More than trillions of animals and plants have suffered and died entirely because of the actions of the rest of Nature.
Species come and go, but the overall ecosystem recovers. We aren’t the first species to wipe out other species, we won’t be the last. Trying to be better is good, but let’s not pretend Nature is some gentle shepherd.
The great oxygenation event pretty much murdered all life on earth. I don’t think the earth cares.
Yeah that argument is annoying. Why does it matter that “the planet will survive”, technically, when it’ll end up as a dried-up husk.
Humans are also genociding a lot of other species. I don’t want numbats to go extinct.
Some extinction events wiped out 99%of species… and life came back.
That’s nice, but I want the numbats to live long happy lives with children who love them.
were in the sixth. mass. extinction …and we’re doing it and most of us don’t give a shit, quite bizzare really
The earth has been hotter, sweatier, and more CO2 filled than this before. It was animal hell and bacteria heaven though. Incompatible with mammals. Crocodile purgatory 🐊
Biggest bugs you ever saw
The crocodiles won’t even notice
I firmly believe humanity can turn earth into another venus. Some proportion of us would do it just out of spite.
We’re looking at total collapse of the food chain. From the oceans to agriculture.
If only we had been warned!
Considering every month now breaks heat records, and every week has new reports stating “faster than expected”, it’s pretty obvious all the actual warnings of what’s to come have been (and will continue to be) written off as fearmongering and thoroughly ignored.
As an Australian, I am shitfucked…
Time to build a robot to look after the dog when I’m gone…
The best time to start building your own Thunderdome was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Don’t worry, we’re in the middle of a massive culture war at the moment, so there’s absolutely no chance we can take steps to stop it unless we find a way to bury MAGA for good
Release the Epstein files. The Nazi billionaires are doing a perfect job getting everyone to fight one another instead of them while they rob us all blind
OK I’ll release them
Thanks
It’s fucked, and we were warned decades ago and did nothing but drill, baby, drill.
A lot of people will die. Which I’m pretty sure they’re fine with, less people= less expenses for social welfare programs, lower property values, and so on
“They” being the people in charge of our world-wide MegaForce economy, think JP Morgan and those who “serve” terms at The FED. (in actuality, they take turns reaming us, inflation is how central banks raise taxes without congressional approval).
The Epstein class has talked about raising the kill line for awhile. Warren Buffett stated back in 2013 that the rich were starting a war on the poor, the poor just weren’t told anything about it
Kinda crazy to catch up the Fed in this.
Much of this pollution is because we deliberately maximize consumption. It’s difficult to quantify how much better off the environment would be without a constant economic stimulus that led to petrodollar warfare.
It won’t take alien invasions, it won’t take world wars using nukes. It will simply be humans living day to day, consuming and altering everything they cross paths with.
Once at Brazil we had 52°C
hottest temp I’ve ever experienced was 50°. Shit. Was. Fucked.
How did you even survive? Retreated into the basement with a fan, hoping the electrical grid wouldn’t fail?
I was younger. Younger people are more tolerant of the heat than older people.
There have still been a number of dead young people from the heat in Europe lately (like 25 year olds), so they’re not immortal. Especially not the geniuses that think it’s a great idea to go running in a heat wave.
I’ve noticed a weird trend where people get so mad at others warning them against heat waves that they essentially go insane yabbing about how humans can easily handle it, we’re all doomers and then they go out of their way to prove it. Alot of them in hospitals.
Indeed, at the 52° day I was, what, 12? I seemed to endure it well.
My relatives also did. I think it’s because we tend to have big temperatures here.
52 would kill most Americans, morbid obesity and high heat would kill.
The temperature in my room was 32°C last night at 10:30 PM
Chat, are we cooked?
Well more like Sous vide
Edit: I hate when I think I’m being clever only to keep reading and someone else was just as clever but quicker.
Sous Vide for tender meat.
My meat is very tender and blistered after this fourth of July fifteen hour fap session.
40c in Europe is similar to 55c in Middle East.
Yes, we cooking. Thankfully my country only experienced 2 very hot days, but it was unbearable and I genuinely got scared for my heart after I noticed it’s basically rushing at 120 for second day straight (my resting rate is usually 70)
Don’t cook for me or cook does did it to be as I do so I bake for you, obviously
Anybody else smell toast?
I are toest
Went to a concert here in central europe and we endured 45 degrees under the sun, people were fainting and getting naked but they didn’t let us in till after a full hour of late opening.
Surely you meant undressing, not literally naked (no underwear). Imagine the smell of thousand sweaty asscheeks
This is good news, it shows the laws of nature do apply to humans and scientists like James Hansen etal were right and Physics as we know it applies
but we’ve chosen to ignore it and it’ll get worse and perhaps this answers Fermi’s Paradox?
Humanity is the problem (for most humans and for most species) , climate change is the solution, we’re literally killing species off so fast it’s labeled the sixth mass extinction.
If climate is effecting white nations, maybe institutions will have to actually start acting like they care.
But somehow I don’t think America really cares about Europe either, even if they are largely white.
Effecting and affecting are not the same word. What you wrote - effecting white nations - means to enable those nations, which is probably the opposite of what you intended.
Well at least you know I’m not AI.
Self extinction has always been my solution for the Fermi paradox
*et al
A SMALL price to Pay to have REALLY Expensive Oil!
-World Leaders!
Yeah, some colleagues from India expressed their concern last week, because they heard how hot it was here.
Felt really weird to have that be actual concern and not just them mocking us, because they’re used to + equipped for worse temperatures.
They got hit by heatwave a lot last time, also 40+°c. At that time people doesn’t care because it’s just India.
“If?”
I wonder what made 2010 zero out of
Probably lack of data
“We conclude that most climate models mix heat too efficiently into the deep ocean and as a result underestimate the negative forcing by human-made aerosols. Aerosol climate forcing today is inferred to be −1.6 ± 0.3 W m−2, implying substantial aerosol indirect climate forcing via cloud changes. Continued failure to quantify the specific origins of this large forcing is untenable, as knowledge of changing aerosol effects is needed to understand future climate change. We conclude that recent slowdown of ocean heat uptake was caused by a delayed rebound effect from Mount Pinatubo aerosols and a deep prolonged solar minimum”
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/11/13421/2011/
One explanation for it at least
I live in sweltering southern Romania
I took a trip to the Carpathians a couple weeks ago to cool down
Saw two bears in 48 hours in the small town I was in
It’s over. The bears have the high ground
Go Bears
dah bears
If not for the gulf stream (a constant sea water movement) Europe would be much colder and Northern America much warmer. I wonder if climate warming could potentially stop this gulf stream
The AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is now creaking under the weight of all that Pacific heat in the ocean. If that goes - which is looking increasingly likely within the next 25-50 years - then sayonara Gulf Stream and Europe can look forward to what’s likely to be extremely sub-zero winter temperatures and soaring summer temperatures.
I’m in the UK and I’ve bought an extra pair of mitts and a hand fan, so I’ll be laughing
Just to be clear a collapsing AMOC is projected to slow the gulf stream but not stop it.
It’s still very very bad though.
What are we talking about when you say extremely sub zero. As in -20c or colder?
Let’s just put it this way. It is what was thought to have triggered previous ice ages.
We have the same cake day!
Very serious topic about dying earth, climate change, etc
“yo we have the same cake day!”
Idk why, but this made me laugh too much
Has an ice age ever started during a current ice age before?
There have been many interglacial periods.
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I was flabbergasted the first time I realized just how far north Europe is, compared to North America.
Paris is at 48° 51’ N, significantly further north than Toronto (43° N), Montreal (45° N). London is at 51°N 30’, which is further north than Vancouver (49° N), and just slightly further north than Calgary (51°N).
Even southern European cities like Ibiza (39° N) are at comparable latitudes to northern American cities like Philadelphia (40°N) or even New York (41°N).
If Europe starts seeing climate comparable to similar latitudes in North America, that would represent a huge change from the recorded history.
Exactly that, yes. We rely on the Gulf Stream for our mild climate so, if that goes, we get the extremes in both summer and winter
-20c is nothing. It’ll be a lot worse than that.
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Idk if rhetorical question but there’s evidence (iirc, an atypically cold patch of water off of…Greenland?) that the gulf stream may already be breaking down.
Also crops. Nobody is talking about the crops
You’re talking about the crops, silly, therefore you are wrong
The peasants here are talking about them all the fucking time.
Just move Europe to the west coast of the south pole and it will drag Italy up the scooter hole of Antarctica, and then we will have the power of Star Gate: Atlantis in our own pants
I definitely smell toast. Is somebody making toast!?
I put an hourglass stuck in my ass when the before was it that doesn’t but do it he the way it go now
