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Notorious R.I.M. posted:It's really amazing how fast everything in the ocean is going to be completely dead. Jellyfish are edible. 
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https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/864494487795576832 https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/918853096582893568 This kind of stuff gives me hope for the future.  EDIT: Follow this twitter account if you haven't already. viral spiral fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 01:13
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viral spiral posted:https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/864494487795576832 and where does that plastic go? A landfill? Incinerator? Back to the ocean? Edit: lol the website basically says they don't know. ughhhh fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 01:23
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:It's really amazing how fast everything in the ocean is going to be completely dead. Do you really think that famines will occur in the first world? America especially has so much power it seems unlikely.
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Oct 15, 2017 01:23
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Yeah, um, about that... Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues quote:About a third of the world's soil has already been degraded, Maria-Helena Semedo of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told a forum marking World Soil Day. We're loving up the Earth in so many ways that we're going to kill ourselves because we'll be unable to mitigate so many different problems all at once.
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Oct 15, 2017 02:48
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Nah, we'll fix all of these problems with minimal upset to society thanks to the use of technology, within the next 10 years before things get life threatening. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I post on the internet. If you disagree with me you're just a doo-doo nimblyhead.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:05
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soil degradation won't be a problem if the aquifers dry up first!
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Oct 15, 2017 04:05
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We can make more dirt.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:31
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Sure. It just takes 1000 years to generate three centimeters of topsoil, maybe five centimeters under good conditions.
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Telephones posted:Do you really think that famines will occur in the first world? America especially has so much power it seems unlikely. lol
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Oct 15, 2017 05:47
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Evil_Greven posted:Yeah, um, about that...
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yellowstone will replenish America's farmlands. inshallah
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yellowstone will replenish America's farmlands. 
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Oct 15, 2017 06:43
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Cool new environmentalist movie out right now:
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Yellowstone exploding will solve all of america's problems Maybe even the world's The end is near
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Oct 15, 2017 07:04
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hurricane headed for ireland lol 
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enraged_camel posted:Yellowstone exploding will solve all of america's problems Indeed. Kill all humans.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Telephones posted:Do you really think that famines will occur in the first world? America especially has so much power it seems unlikely. There's growing food insecurity in America right now in a situation where there is a ridiculous surplus of food on its market. Do you even want to imagine how much the state would botch it if there was an actual shortage?
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It's crazy how precarious our monoculture agriculture system is. It wouldn't take much to lose food security in the developed world. And just imagine what the impacts would be. America elected a populist fascist-lite on a full belly. Americans go mad when they haven't had a meal for a few hours, just imagine what will run through the mind of a fat reactionary american when he can't buy a burger Our oceans are hosed: It's over-fished, full of plastics, and every day it becomes more acidic and toxic. Our soil is hosed. Our forests are hosed. The Arctic is hosed. Antarctica is hosed. Greenland is hosed. The permafrost is hosed. Everything is so hosed. Mother nature is ready to ambush us. And we've known about it for years. We've known her location, her traps, her weapons, her bunkers, her foxholes. But we just hoped someone else would volunteer and fight her themselves. We let her grow stronger and stronger. Now, we're left to fight the most powerful force in the world — armed with a stick.
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Oct 15, 2017 13:29
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Jellyfish are edible. They look like they'd be the celery of the sea. ie: you'd burn more calories eating them than you get back.
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Oct 15, 2017 14:24
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Minge Binge posted:The Arctic is hosed. Antarctica is hosed. Greenland is hosed. The permafrost is hosed. Everything is so hosed. Speaking of! The coastline of the Northwest Territories is eroding faster than scientists can measure it quote:Whalen said the average rate of erosion for an island in this area is about 1.5 metres a year. What they have found on Pelly is that it’s washing away by as much as 40 metres each summer. I suggest clicking through to the full article, there's some amazing time-lapse and drone footage of the island vanishing before your eyes. Gives a good cross-section at how permafrost looks below the grassy surface, too. 
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Oct 15, 2017 16:56
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Rime posted:Nah, we'll fix all of these problems with minimal upset to society thanks to the use of technology, within the next 10 years before things get life threatening. Ok Malthus. I mean for people so obsessed with what experts think and the scientific consensus that all seems to go out the window when people want to doom prophecies like some crazy person ranting on a street corner. That's not science, that's depression. tsa fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 17:07
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tsa posted:Ok Malthus. LOOK KIDS, BIG BEN, PARLIAMENT
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tsa posted:Ok Malthus. Go talk to some climate scientists in person and ask them what opinions don't make the new headlines. I've met a dozen now (surprising number in the field are also mountaineers, heh) and not one has disagreed that we're sprinting towards brink of extinction with no safety line. But hey, keep believing that technology is no different from magic and will save us at the 11th hour if that's what helps you sleep at night. 
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Rime posted:Go talk to some climate scientists in person and ask them what opinions don't make the new headlines. I've met a dozen now (surprising number in the field are also mountaineers, heh) and not one has disagreed that we're sprinting towards brink of extinction with no safety line. If it becomes a question of survival, we can power however many desalination plants, air conditioning units and indoor farms are necessary to save the rich and powerful (plus support staff) via the mighty atom.
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Oct 15, 2017 19:39
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tsa posted:Ok Malthus. I try to do all I can to help our future, but that still doesn't cover the fact that we've basically ensured the largest extinction event in our planet's history. If talking in realistic terms scares you maybe go do something to help?
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Oct 15, 2017 20:16
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what if we put everyone in a vr headset and stored them in an insulative goo and used adipose tissue as a battery
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:I try to do all I can to help our future, but that still doesn't cover the fact that we've basically ensured the largest extinction event in our planet's history. If talking in realistic terms scares you maybe go do something to help?
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E: Wrong thread, oops
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Greatest Dying? The Best Dying, perhaps, in the history of dying.
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Oct 15, 2017 21:02
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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171016-the-great-thaw-of-americas-north-is-coming The end is near! 
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enraged_camel posted:http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171016-the-great-thaw-of-americas-north-is-coming lol that people were worried about clathrates. melting permafrost releases more than enough methane. I love me some nonlinear positive feedbacks
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BBC posted:http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171016-the-great-thaw-of-americas-north-is-coming lmao
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So when we're all dead or regressed to pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer scavenging in a post-apocalypse world, which country will be judged to have been most responsible for the crash? Australia for building an economy on mining as much coal as possible? Brazil for building an economy on cutting down the Amazon and replacing it with cattle ranches? The USA for having a people fat and dumb enough to basically be cattle themselves?
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Nobody will care, because all the countries will be dead like most of the people in them, and the past itself will be judged as having failed the present.
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icantfindaname posted:So when we're all dead or regressed to pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer scavenging in a post-apocalypse world, which country will be judged to have been most responsible for the crash? Australia for building an economy on mining as much coal as possible? Brazil for building an economy on cutting down the Amazon and replacing it with cattle ranches? The USA for having a people fat and dumb enough to basically be cattle themselves? everyone will blame obama
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Oct 17, 2017 20:39
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the rest of the world already blames america for climate change so that will remain the same
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Oct 17, 2017 20:46
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the very notion of a "country" will be blamed as the insane premise that we're not one planet & people
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StabbinHobo posted:the very notion of a "country" will be blamed as the insane premise that we're not one planet & people Why not blame the USA? The ruling party completely denies climate change, the "denial industry" is funded by US corporations and individuals, and we backed out of the climate agreement. China sucks, but at least they are moving away from Coal etc.
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global unity is thousands of years in the future if it ever happens. the world blames america now and will continue to do so, the only people who don't blame america are americans
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