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It’s not just about the money or even, really, the time. I’m an environmentalist. I’ve educated myself about the pollution embedded in supply chains, the destroyed forests, the plastic in the oceans. Such knowledge is disturbing in itself, but it also feeds a sense of social alienation. Among the wealthy parents in gentrified Brooklyn, I’m unusual in my willingness to inconvenience myself, at least to some degree, to cause less harm to the Earth.

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Suddenly, the industrial-sized laundry bins that serve as the lost-and-found at my son’s school loom into view with a new clarity. It’s not just our stuff! I thought during one of my weekly digs through the strata: water bottles at the bottom, mixed with Rubik’s Cubes, fidget spinners, Pop Its and Tupperware, then coats and shoes, then sweatshirts, with a sprinkling of books jumbled in. When did all this losing become normal?

kater posted:

wait what do you mean military is exempt from climate change. did it bring a loving note from its parents saying so? it’s gonna sit out during dodgeball?

and the answer is to make a more electric military? I know I shouldn’t expect a politician to mug for the camera and say ‘ya got me guess the game is up we weren’t gonna save poo poo’ but I know I heard the word jobs uttered in that fuckin autocomplete gibberish.

Rime posted:

Our kids always lose stuff. Why do we tolerate them destroying the planet?



This article has moments of clarity and purpose sprinkled in amongst total insanity and it is Glorious.

T-Paine posted:

Here's something I didn't see coming, but between this and Obama's speech at COP26 it's pretty clear that the older generations are going to be gradually shifting the responsibility and onus of action onto the younger generations. You'll be hearing things like "You want to save the planet so badly? Do something about it!" and "In your life you've also contributed to climate change, so you're not exactly blameless yourselves" and "Yeah we messed up, but the world was still salvageable until you all came along." And you know what? There's going to be a sufficient number of young people who accept all that and believe it that they aren't going to do anything either, not that they could stop what's coming either way.

kater posted:

wait what do you mean military is exempt from climate change. did it bring a loving note from its parents saying so? it’s gonna sit out during dodgeball?

and the answer is to make a more electric military? I know I shouldn’t expect a politician to mug for the camera and say ‘ya got me guess the game is up we weren’t gonna save poo poo’ but I know I heard the word jobs uttered in that fuckin autocomplete gibberish.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Either our government is so senile and stupid they think promising to do literally meaningless things in 10-30 year timespans will actually help a problem they don't actually understand while they dodder around and ignore the giant fleet of boats idling their engines or our leaders know what we know and have chosen to do really do nothing about climate change itself while strengthening our military because an act of global charity would weaken our economy and defense spending as we head into a period of open warfare and conflict.

Crusader posted:

man, this tuvalu headline just stunlocked me

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Car Hater posted:

I'm a horrible person with a recent baby death in my family and just imagining how pissed that kid would have been to learn his parents spent $$$$ on in-vitro to bring him into hellworld has me like "yeah little buddy! You did it! You escaped! "

kneelbeforezog posted:

Preface as an atheist and amateur philosopher listener, something is better than nothing, meaning its better to have one good year and 90 years of torture than none at all. Because the torture is better than the not torture, otherwise something isnt better than nothing.

Maybe not in that extreme torture example, but he'd/she'd have gotten a few good years in and some mediocre years before the real downfall. Also feelings of hope etc. The entire human population can fit in Texas. Fusion was a conmans perpetual energy snake oil dream but now ,who knows, it may be a thing in 30 years. Or they say it may not be a thing because supply chains will break down not allowing for all the parts to come together to create it? Idk but either way, even a societal collapse where theres not even a single good supply chain to make technological breakthroughs in isn't so bad. Hunter gather tribes and poo poo,with guns instead of spears. Wild wild west globally, whats the big deal?

Cold on a Cob posted:

even if they don't consciously know that there's no fixing things, they do firmly believe that economy and military comes first, always have, and will until the end

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Either our government is so senile and stupid they think promising to do literally meaningless things in 10-30 year timespans will actually help a problem they don't actually understand while they dodder around and ignore the giant fleet of boats idling their engines or our leaders know what we know and have chosen to do really do nothing about climate change itself while strengthening our military because an act of global charity would weaken our economy and defense spending as we head into a period of open warfare and conflict.

It's probably why China doesn't give a poo poo about curbing it's emissions either. If you knew there was no solution there would be no reason to performatively cut back on domestic development and defense spending no matter what the emissions are.

Promising electric vehicle incentive programs or "protecting 30% of all land" in ten years is just to keep the trade flowing so we can keep making boats while the majority of the population is distracted by meaningless summits populated by increasingly concerned peoples that are just now beginning to realize whats going on.

Stevie Lee posted:

https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1458355310813401093
https://i.imgur.com/kDZc7cz.mp4
me too bees.... me too

kneelbeforezog posted:

Preface as an atheist and amateur philosopher listener, something is better than nothing, meaning its better to have one good year and 90 years of torture than none at all. Because the torture is better than the not torture, otherwise something isnt better than nothing.

Maybe not in that extreme torture example, but he'd/she'd have gotten a few good years in and some mediocre years before the real downfall. Also feelings of hope etc. The entire human population can fit in Texas. Fusion was a conmans perpetual energy snake oil dream but now ,who knows, it may be a thing in 30 years. Or they say it may not be a thing because supply chains will break down not allowing for all the parts to come together to create it? Idk but either way, even a societal collapse where theres not even a single good supply chain to make technological breakthroughs in isn't so bad. Hunter gather tribes and poo poo,with guns instead of spears. Wild wild west globally, whats the big deal?

Wakko posted:

sir, this is an arbys, but pass me the joint through the window and you can just go off okay

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Koirhor posted:

DO SOMETHING!

Car Hater posted:

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The white froth, a mixture of sewage and industrial waste, formed over the last week in sections of the Yamuna River -- a tributary of the holy Ganges River -- which flows about 855 miles (1,376 kilometers) south from the Himalayas through several states.

The pungent foam contains high levels of ammonia and phosphates, which can result in respiratory and skin problems, according to experts.

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"The river in Delhi's stretch is an ecologically dead river," said Bhim Singh Rawat, from the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP). "It doesn't have fish or fresh water birds. That has been the case for years now."

Popoto posted:

my favorite fact about this is how if the hornet gets in, a common method for bees do dispose of the wasps is to just get really close to it in untold numbers, and flap their wings SO HARD it just warms up the place just high enough for the wasp to die of heat exposure.

Literally cooking wasps as a defence.

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1458178472216510471?s=20

Car Hater posted:

Any time the greening of the military or any net-zero by 2050 bullshit comes up I am reminded that the U.S. Air Force intends to maintain "global force projection dominance" via the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress until at least that year.

The B-52 bomber burns 3000 gallons of fuel per hour.

The purpose of this program is to place nuclear or extremely explosive heavy non-nuclear ordinance anywhere in the world in that 1 hour. It is in essence a back-up to the deterrent posed by ICBMs and Nuclear Subs.





We are committing omnicide so that the general managers of this lovely chain will never have to back down from what is functionally history's dumbest pizza delivery guarantee.

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1458178472216510471?s=20

Cold on a Cob posted:

this loving owns

makes me think it might be neat if someone setup a program to keep breeding honeybees and then exposing them to the killer wasps and breeding the ones that survive, repeat until you have stone cold wasp killers, then breed a shitload of them and release them into the wild

idk there's probably a million things i'm not thinking of here and idk how much something like that would cost

Cold on a Cob posted:

"hey we won ww2, you fix the planet!" - boomers

nomad2020 posted:

Have we tried shooting the climate?

Cold on a Cob posted:

this loving owns

makes me think it might be neat if someone setup a program to keep breeding honeybees and then exposing them to the killer wasps and breeding the ones that survive, repeat until you have stone cold wasp killers, then breed a shitload of them and release them into the wild

idk there's probably a million things i'm not thinking of here and idk how much something like that would cost

nomad2020 posted:

Have we tried shooting the climate?

Car Hater posted:

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Wakko posted:

sir, this is an arbys, but pass me the joint through the window and you can just go off okay

Car Hater posted: