[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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RC Cola: Aug 1, 2011; Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Evil_Greven posted:

ah typical normal average mid-december weather in colorado
https://twitter.com/kvcreativetv/status/1471168020169035778

normal

# ? Dec 15, 2021 19:42

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:35

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

Spergin Morlock posted:

why would a midget porn magazine have chapters lmao

# ? Dec 15, 2021 19:47

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1471140728801800194

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Biosphere Collapse: First moderate risk in this area in December ever

hopefully a snownado puts out any fires that start

# ? Dec 15, 2021 19:54

Perry Mason Jar: Feb 24, 2006; "Della? Take a lid"

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Biosphere Collapse: First moderate risk in this area in December ever

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Biosphere Collapse: Dangerous and unprecedented Severe (Moderate Risk 4/5)

# ? Dec 15, 2021 19:59

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

just kidding i actually like the current title

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:00

aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

RC Cola posted:

I broke my friend group today with posts from this thread. Thanks lol

Don't damage your social support network by becoming associated by them with being the source of information that pointlessly bums them out imo

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:01

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

Maybe it will be a mild fire snownado

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:02

Alobar: Jun 21, 2011; Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.

Evil_Greven posted:

ah typical normal average mid-december weather in colorado
https://twitter.com/kvcreativetv/status/1471168020169035778

https://twitter.com/ssssgnabb/status/1471188254510698503

there's at least a dozen comments saying "i'm from this media company. i hope you're safe! :ohdear:

can we use this video please?"

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:07

IAMKOREA: Apr 21, 2007

Raine posted:

there aren't many mainstream books about doomer climate change so i was also eager to like the book before i read it

it's like if you're a kid and you find a magazine labeled "PORNO" and when you excitedly open it it's some weird midget porn poo poo

Otoh the weird midget porn thing would still own, just differently and probably later after a little reflection.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:20

IAMKOREA: Apr 21, 2007

Spergin Morlock posted:

why would a midget porn magazine have chapters lmao

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Biosphere Collapse: why would a midget porn magazine have chapters lmao

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:24

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

my state (MN) currently has a high wind warning, a dense fog advisory, and a winter weather advisory

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# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:33

Stevie Lee: Oct 8, 2007

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1471140728801800194

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Biosphere Collapse: First moderate risk in this area in December ever

that is one hosed up avocado

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:44

Stevie Lee: Oct 8, 2007

RC Cola posted:

I broke my friend group today with posts from this thread. Thanks lol

don't forget to tell them about the carbon capture facility in Hellisheidi, Iceland!

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:45

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

Evil_Greven posted:

ah typical normal average mid-december weather in colorado
https://twitter.com/kvcreativetv/status/1471168020169035778

Dust Bowl II

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:49

bowser: Apr 7, 2007

https://twitter.com/ChrisCBS4/status/1471201745808232449?s=20
https://twitter.com/DaveCBS4/status/1470873998653231104?s=20
https://twitter.com/skydrama/status/1471201045401391107?s=20

I'm tired of living in interesting times.

Does anyone have a good twitter list for climate/biosphere accounts to follow that aren't hooked on hopium?

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:50

Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

I haven't curated mine recently so there might still be some hopium but here's one that was posted itt a bit ago
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1224446343692746752?t=fcEQ57iGatqzfMzkOPTmNQ&s=09

Also just in case here's the one I made a few years ago
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1163822230641340424?t=EXud89iVPAwRNnw9X-Attg&s=09

# ? Dec 15, 2021 20:59

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

bowser posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisCBS4/status/1471201745808232449?s=20
https://twitter.com/DaveCBS4/status/1470873998653231104?s=20
https://twitter.com/skydrama/status/1471201045401391107?s=20

I'm tired of living in interesting times.

Does anyone have a good twitter list for climate/biosphere accounts to follow that aren't hooked on hopium?

neat! mad max was a fun movie

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:01

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

bowser posted:

I'm tired of living in interesting times.

im not

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:01

Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009; Can't post for 4 hours!

Stevie Lee posted:

don't forget to tell them about the carbon capture facility in Hellisheidi, Iceland!

Carbonsinki, Iceland

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:06

Alobar: Jun 21, 2011; Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.

https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1471214317768949765

i feel like the iron sheik's tweets are always on point, and he always cuts right to the heart of the issue no matter what he's tweeting about

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:31

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

e: beaten

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:33

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

im not

i swing erratically between 3-4 different moods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAASXOvnPqA&t=235s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEwWzMz99A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWVFEVWJMz8

i couldn't find a song to ascribe to anger but it probably wouldn't be fun to listen to anyway

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:41

Shima Honnou: Dec 1, 2010; The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit; College Slice

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

im not

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:42

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, except we're all on the train

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:55

Alobar: Jun 21, 2011; Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, except we're all on the train

and the tracks are on an ancient lakebed that is starting to fill back up

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:01

Alobar: Jun 21, 2011; Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.

ok, we're gonna need casey jones

except we need 500,000 casey jones

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:02

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

CSPAM collapse thread got a shoutout in QCS

Tiny Timbs posted:

silence_kit posted:
It is pretty hard to avoid. You can find it even in the non-general chat threads and forums on this message board. Goons pretty consistently believe that the sky is falling

Biosphere Collapse: the 3 wise men brought baby jesus gifts of Cadmium, Arsenic, Lead posted:
I�m around two family members who are teens and they are stressing about college and what schools they�re going to and their parents are very worried about grades. it takes a lot for me to not go, �don�t worry about it. like at all. enjoy being upper middle class and being 16 and 14 while you can

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:31

The Demilich: Apr 9, 2020; The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.

They're jealous of our freedom.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:46

LionArcher: Mar 29, 2010

Cup Runneth Over posted:

CSPAM collapse thread got a shoutout in QCS

what�s QCS?

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:49

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

LionArcher posted:

what�s QCS?

Ligma balls

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:50

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

LionArcher posted:

what�s QCS?

Quiet, Calm Scatology

The subforum is completely about touching poop under careful staff supervision.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:52

biceps crimes: Apr 12, 2008

LionArcher posted:

what�s QCS?

a place where you point out that your posting enemies are mentally ill and/or toxic and try to either get them banned or have their forum closed

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:53

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

good news: awareness is increasing

https://www.ft.com/content/0896d5b0-9c25-4c65-a4c9-cd20e1590d12 posted:

Six years ago, Samantha Cooper had a high-powered job in London�s Canary Wharf financial district and a hard-charging life to match it.

At 42, she was running a global trading team at oil group BP, rising at dawn and heading straight to the gym, checking emails all the way for any market-moving news.

To recover from her punishing working weeks, she would book last-minute flights to the Maldives, business class. Or fantasise about plans for an underground swimming pool at her second home in Kent. It was an exhausting, but addictive, way to live.

�There was always that feeling that I needed another year,� she says. No matter how much money and success she had, she adds, �you could always convince yourself that you didn�t have enough yet�.

By the end of 2015 though, it was Cooper who had had enough. After nearly 20 years of trading at BP, making money felt OK, but not great. She wasn�t spending time with her ageing parents. When she and her husband, a gardener, had friends to stay, she found herself worrying about when they would leave because she had so much work to do.

�I�d lost who I was,� she says. �My values were not in line with what I was doing.� She decided to quit but, during a lengthy handover, had a stint at Business in the Community, a Prince of Wales charity backed by BP. There, she was confronted by younger people asking �How can you work for a fossil fuel company?� Cooper, an Oxford chemistry graduate, realised that what she really wanted to do was work on tackling climate change.

By 2016, she had left BP. Today she does voluntary work for several environmental and social causes and is an unpaid director at Business Declares, a not-for-profit group that helps organisations trying to address climate change.

That puts her in an unusual sub-set of the global green campaign movement: executives ditching high-flying jobs in business or finance, often at the peak of their earning years, to fight for a safer climate.

It is hard to know precisely how many of these green defectors exist. Some who have made the jump say they know of only one or two beside themselves. Some have gone back and forth. Cooper says she knows of at least one person who left BP to work with ShareAction, a responsible investment campaign group, but was persuaded to go back by Bernard Looney, who has promised a greener agenda since becoming BP�s chief executive in 2020.

Other dissidents think they are part of a widening trend.

�I think the number is increasing,� says Tariq Fancy, who until 2019 was global chief investment officer for sustainable investing at BlackRock, the world�s largest asset manager.

He denounced his former industry in a widely-read essay this year that argued sustainable investing was like �selling wheatgrass to a cancer patient� and a �deadly distraction� from the urgent need to address climate change.

Fancy says he received �hundreds� of messages in response to the essay and the number who congratulated him for speaking out suggests many others share his views, even if they have not quit their jobs.

�The amount of people who have the itch to do that is significantly greater than the amount that we�re obviously seeing doing it,� he says.

One thing made it slightly easier for Fancy to walk away from a big job in finance: he had done it before, in 2012, when he left the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, where he had been working on new credit strategies. He went on to set up Rumie, a digital learning non-profit group where he is chief executive.

For others, quitting a successful, well-paid business career has been far from straightforward.

�It took me quite a long time to get my head around it,� says Ben Tolhurst, who decided to jump ship after having an epiphany at Canary Wharf Tube station.

It was a morning in February 2019 and Tolhurst, who had just turned 49, had arrived for another day of work at Jones Lang LaSalle, the global real estate group, where he was managing director of UK property and asset management. This was one of a series of big corporate jobs for Tolhurst, a management consultant-turned-senior executive at businesses including the BT telecoms group and outsourcers Serco and Capita.

Like many others, he had noticed the unusually hot 2018 European summer, and the Extinction Rebellion protesters blocking London bridges.

But climate change had not figured hugely on his radar until he stepped off the Tube at Canary Wharf into nearly 20C of warmth on what was supposed to be a winter�s morning. People looked happy. Newspapers reported beaches were busy and flowers were blooming early. But for Tolhurst, something snapped.

�I just stood there for a moment in time and I thought, �Is everybody mad, or am I mad?�,� he says.

The realisation that a changing climate had probably brought the unseasonably warm day sent him into a frenzy of climate science research. He went vegan; resolved to stop flying and decarbonised his pension pot.

But it was not enough. �Being directly employed in a corporate was not something I could do authentically any more,� he says. �Therefore I felt I had no option but to basically leave.�

Climate Capital

By September 2020, he had resigned and embarked on a very different, but still very busy, life. As well as being a director at Business Declares, alongside Cooper, he is a non-executive director at Greentech, a group that helps new green businesses bring their products to market, and a business mentor at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He also advises his local council on its climate emergency plan.

�I tell him to look after himself and not say yes to everybody,� says Andrew Medhurst, another green City dissident who ended a 30-year career with HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and other financial institutions nearly two years before Tolhurst took the plunge.

The two men met in 2019 after Medhurst began working on what became Business Declares. They have a half-hour virtual coffee every fourth Friday that Medhurst says he suggested to help Tolhurst avoid the pitfalls he encountered.

�I went from a busy job in financial services to being a busy climate activist and as I look back now, I think that was a form of denial in itself,� he says.

Medhurst joined the Extinction Rebellion protest movement�s finance team after struggling at his London job with Nest, a workplace pension provider. �I could not reconcile encouraging young people to save money for a future that I was struggling to believe existed any longer,� he says.

This year he made another switch to work on Scholars Warning, a network of academics urging deeper discussion of the risk that climate change will cause societal collapse.

Many were influenced, as Medhurst was, by Deep Adaptation, a 2018 paper by British professor, Jem Bendell, that suggested climate change would cause such great crises that people should consider quitting their jobs or careers to prepare for it.

Join host Isabel Berwick every Wednesday for expert analysis and water cooler chat about ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, the big ideas shaping work today � and the old habits we need to leave behind.

Bendell says he knows of at least eight people who have changed their working lives after reading Deep Adaptation, including two from the European Commission, but few came from the world of finance and business.

Those who have switched acknowledge they are fortunate to have the financial security to allow them to quit their jobs. To those who would like to follow suit, but fear the consequences, many say the shift is ultimately worth it.

�I did find it difficult for a while,� says Cat Jenkins, communications co-ordinator for the Deep Adaptation Forum, a global network inspired by Bendell�s paper. Based in the Isle of Man, Jenkins spent nearly 30 years in the offshore finance sector and says her identity rested heavily on being �the kind of person that has a big house and a big car and a big job title and respect�.

�Now I can say honestly that, although I earn a lot less and I have a much smaller house, I feel more secure and safer,� she says.

That is partly because she has better health, good friends and strong relationships. �But actually,� she adds, �I�ve found purpose.�

this is what happens when you spread awareness. keep it up.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:17

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

mawarannahr posted:

good news: awareness is increasing

this is what happens when you spread awareness. keep it up.

yeah I'm sure that former fossil fuel execs of several decades careers in their companies are the exact people we want to transition directly to running environmental advocacy groups

just a perfect choice of personnel

works wonders for government agencies, after all

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:22

Loucks: May 21, 2007; It's incwedibwe easy to suck my own dick.

I didn't finish reading that, but spending decades accruing filthy lucre in the fossil fuel industry only to have a change of heart once you're rich as hell is just posturing to deflect blame at that point. gently caress 'em all.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:27

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

Loucks posted:

I didn't finish reading that, but spending decades accruing filthy lucre in the fossil fuel industry only to have a change of heart once you're rich as hell is just posturing to deflect blame at that point. gently caress 'em all.

better late then never

actually, nah

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:28

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

She could not hope to put more than a small scratch in the legacy of death she has helped materialize

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:32

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

hey everyone, ive made millions over the course of a lucrative two decade career setting the world on fire, but when a group of younger people asked me at a charity event how i could have been such a monster and the PR department wasn't there to craft a proper response, i finally had a change of heart and i now volunteer my (otherwise valuable) time doing pro-environment stuff, such as answering emails at a non-profit and creating educational flyers on MS Paint

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:38

Big Hubris: Mar 8, 2011

Spergin Morlock posted:

why would a midget porn magazine have chapters lmao

Magazines used to have chapters.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:41

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:35

mistermojo: Jul 3, 2004

its gonna be alright. I've got a good feeling about it

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:41

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