Work from home, buy less stuff, eat less meat, and most importantly throw all billionaires feet first into a wood chipper.
The problem is real. the past few years it’s been raining as much as snowing during polar night in northern Norway.
Sure but walking home is gonna do jack shit, we gotta focus on the wood chipper part
Work from home. You know, naked from the waist down during zoom meetings, etc.
There was the theory I read last year about billionaires not giving a shit that the world is getting worse because they were building bunkers and yachts and hoarding resources.
Knowing what I know about religious folks who also actively push for the end of the world to fight with angels or some shit, it checks out.
1 billion people doing a major life change would move the needle in fixing the world. But you can also get the same results with a few billionaires.
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Most Americans thinking in Fahrenheit are gonna think this doesn’t look so bad.
Yeah 50 degrees still seems kind of chilly
50 is “cook an egg on the hood of your car” weather, lol.
To me, 72 degrees is standard room temperature.
Just multiply by 9/5 and add 32 and the horror becomes apparent.
EDIT: added rest of formula because I’m an idiot
Don’t forget to add 32 afterwards
And right there, that’s why I should look things up before I open my mouth. I remembered the 9/5, and forgot the last part.
I usually just multiply by 2, subtract 10%, and then add 32. Usually easier than 9/5 and gives same result.
If it’s not heat waves, it’s several days of hard rain, dirty water swirling round your hips, and the constant threat of leptospirosis or rat shit disease.
But big strong car goes vroom vroom!
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If you’re upset that a handful of corporations are 90% culpable for this, make them 99%. Then never stop pointing that out to others sharing your sacrifice. Find strength in that unity.
And importantly, realize that corporations are not 100% responsible. So many people think it’s 100% corps and that their individual actions, even in rich consumerism driven countries have no impact
We’re trapped on a burning planet with superstitious dictators committing holocausts in broad daylight and there are forum mods/admins who find it within themselves to stop you from advocating online to ixnay a few fascists or billionaires
Fuck retards who vote for fascist lunatics.
Okay but why the r-slur
Eh, at this point can we just agree that word doesn’t apply to people with actual disabilities? It hasn’t been used as such for decades. Maybe we just agree to only use it to refer to morons, the same way “moron” was once a medical term.
Soooo many other words, just pick a better one.
Seriously why are you acting like using words is so frigging hard.
There’s so much worse shit going on in the world as is the entire point of the discussion and this is the hill your choosing to die on here? Mere inconvenience of learning to just use words?
There are many hills to die on, but I have standards and those standards are important. Just pick a better word next time and move on, it’s not that difficult.
How about you just ignore it and move on, instead of asking everyone to pander to your standards? Not to be rude, but no one on the internet gives a shit about your standards, and no one is going to try to comply with them. Use the downvote button if you don’t like the word
Didn’t the words moron and imbecile follow along a similar line of etymological evolution that the r-word went through? Yet imbecile and moron are considered acceptable offensive words to use. To be honest it’s why I don’t really care that much about the r-word itself.
But why? Some people are still hurt by it’s usage, we have other words.
Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of “protecting” people who don’t really mind?
I think about 5% of the time it’s someone who’s actually affected, and 95% of the time it’s performative moralising. Of course there’s no way of telling which time is which…
I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don’t use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that’s a hot take though
speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.
This is something I’ve been wondering about.
The r-slur is one of the few words that actually bothers fascists.
If you call them a “fascist” they don’t care. If you call them a “nazi”, they don’t care. If you call them a “traitor”, some of them care a little bit. These are not insults that get under their skin.
But if you call them a “retrd" or a "fggot”, it can really rustle their jimmies. In their minds, these are actual insults.
So if using the slur hurts the fascists more than it hurts the marginalized group, would that usage be justified? Wield the word as a weapon against the fascists, in a way?
I’m not sure, leaning probably not. But if I see ICE in the street I would like something to yell at them that actually bothers them. Maybe “Trump is a kiddie diddler” will work for a little while.
I heard Cartman say it’s ok to use it now and he is my moral compass.
Reddit is a dumping ground of hate generated by AI eating fuel to wreck the planet further
The problem is that ordinary people can only do so much to prevent climate change, any real impact can only come from above, by goverment regulations and the ultra rich following those regulations and doing their part, unfortunately the filthy rich control the government and they would rather take 16 min flights in their private jets, the planet be damned
The problem is deeper: I doubt any single government can stop the climate change, and any international agreements are doomed to fail because someone would say they are getting the short end of the stick with green stuff and nothing in return. Plus there would be no accountability for not meeting the targets.
If we destroy enough satellites, it’ll all go away. Believe me!
“It’s only going to get worse.”
That’s the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren’t intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.
It’s looking more and more like we’re a failed experiment.
It’s not about intelligence, it’s about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn’t an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.
It’s not about the species being “stupid”, that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing
If I put my hand on a stove. It hurts. I learn not to do that again.
If I live in a region that has been controlled by a specific party for generations and life sucks, and I keep voting for that party, then I’m stupid.
If I’m suffering the effects of global warming after professionals have spent decades telling me it was happening, and I choose to continue ignoring it, I’m stupid.
You’re trying to absolve ADULTS from the responsibility of self-education. Of learning from experience.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there. But adults shouldn’t be waiting for someone to tell them what to think. It’s their responsibility to learn from obvious mistakes. There are plenty of people in history that have left organized religion because they learned, through experience, that it was bullshit. That means anyone that isn’t willfully ignorant can do the same.
I’m not trying to absolve anyone, saying someone is stupid is not accountability, it’s just a cathartic insult. I’m just saying that free will is cultivated, not absolute, and the choices that people have available are often invisible to them. Everyone has a responsibility to do better, but it would be blind to ignore the tunnel vision our system imposes.
Trying to be all high and mighty and stroking our ego feeling “smarter” than poor assholes who never knew anything different is part of the reason anti intellectualism is so rampant
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Our selfish survival instincts that allowed us to get to where we are now will also be our downfall.
We didn’t get here through selfishness though. That’s the saddest thing. Human development has always been inherently cooperative. The tribe survived what killed the individual.
I’m not denying humans can be selfish. But societal selfishness on the scale we have now has to be enforced on some subliminal level in my opinion.
Behavioral, not subliminal. Interacting through a market selects for individual, atomized behaviors from people and corrodes social spaces that used to exist outside the exchanging of money and goods.
We’re cooperative with our tribe, but selfish with everything else. What an individual’s tribe is varies from person to person.
I moved further north in Japan from Tokyo. I think we hit 38 as a max last year. So far, I’ve seen 35 this year, but I’m afraid where we might end up. We had weeks without rain at my place finally ending a few days ago. I’m scared.
Welp. Good thing I’m gonna die.
That’s what the politicians think too.
“Global warming” was always a weak formulation of the problem, and “climate change” is even weaker. I prefer “Anthropogenic runaway global heating” which has the handy acronym ARGH.
I like it when people use ecocide. Like ecological murder, destruction.
Words are important!
Good word, but needs more connotation of “suicide” as well.
Just north of Seattle yesterday I was in my living room and the thermostat was 81 degrees. I was dying. I thought for a sec…if this gets to 100 we’re just going to cook. But then I realized its still Fahrenheit. But wow! 50C is just such a crazy temp to even try staying alive in. That’s fly away weather right there.
Maybe this is just my media bubble, and I’m not saying I haven’t seen any articles about it, but I feel like remarkably little attention overall is being given to how many fucking people are dying in these heat disasters. Not just this one, but over and over.
It is just a common thing that it doesn’t make interesting news. Same for how many traffic deaths there are.
Fact right here. I used to work as a paramedic in a city with a couple of large bridges. So many people suicided off those bridges that it never got reported. It was too common and not shocking enough.
In that same vein, frearms are now the leading, primary cause of death for children and teens, in the US.
Boomers largely do not believe this, I’ve argued with several even here on lemmy about this, provided data, studies, they never admit they’re wrong.
Absolute explosion of mass shooting events, victims are far more likely to be Gen Z or Gen A.
Again, firearms have killed more children in the US than car crashes, cancer, etc, for several years in a row now.
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens
Just checked this, you’re right. It’s a useful clarification that what the school teaches nowadays is also right but a different methodology. Schools often teach that accidents cause the most deaths, then health, then homicide, then suicide, and that car crashes are the most common kind of accidents. This is true.
On the other hand, if you group by both mechanism and intent (still among ages 15–19, though 10–14 is similar but at a smaller scale), you have unintentional car crashes in the lead, ahead of firearm homicide by about four hundred. Combine this with undetermined and accidental firearm deaths, and the lead shrinks to about three hundred. Meanwhile, there are over a thousand cases of suicide by firearms, and (nearly?) no logged cases of homicide by car.
You say that, but infuriatingly I’m always amazed by how much above the fold top national news story reporting gets allocated to traffic deaths.
“4 year old girl dies in crash on the M1”
Okay, that’s terrible, but is it really a good use of the nation’s time to read about how lovely this child was and how tragic the crash was? Are there not maybe more informative and educational and useful news stories you could be pushing to the top of the news, rather than this?
You’d think it was some backwater news broadcaster but no, this is from the likes of the BBC. Wild.
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Yes, but they’re poor and brown and far away, so who cares, right?
No its not just you.
Climate coverage drastically diminished roughly during Covid, never came back, despite us blowing through the 1.5C limit 2 years ago now, insurance companies in the US more or less abandoning roughly the southern third of the US due to their own climate models, despite the AMOC destabilizing, despite us recently realizing the SMOC has actually been destabalized for a decade and is actively deteriorating.
Yes, there is clearly an active push to just ignore it, it’s been driving me insane.
Our media has a lot to answer for
