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fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1511061426512834577?s=20&t=HWdAFw0WQBsOhskkPj-Qvg lol, a single day after the NYT article I posted https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/briefing/climate-optimism-ukraine-week-ahead.html Someone thinks we could use a cheering up apparently
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Apr 4, 2022 20:33
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very funny to literally say "it's not the end of the world, doomers. it's just going to get progressively worse in the very near future and we've shown absolutely no signs we're seriously going to stop doing anything that causes it, but that doesn't mean there's no hope."
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Apr 4, 2022 20:34
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today might be bad, but look on the bright side: it's better than tomorrow
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Apr 4, 2022 20:35
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they want to cut down 10 acres of forest near my house that is classified as a rainforest due to the amount of rain it gets (>100 inches a year). i am sort of resigned to the fact that capitalism is going to win and it's insanely depressing
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Apr 4, 2022 20:39
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carbon capture: about as viable a solution as trying to put a fart back into a butt
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Apr 4, 2022 20:41
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God Hole posted:carbon capture: about as viable a solution as trying to put a fart back into a butt what if we captured the carbon in our own mouths, somehow?
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Apr 4, 2022 20:42
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I'm already eating as many carbs as I can.
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Apr 4, 2022 20:47
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liberals loving love toxic positivity you doomers are the real problem!
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Apr 4, 2022 20:47
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sure, human beings are notoriously bad at dealing with issues that get imperceptibly worse in the short term but have drastic long terms consequences and massive momentum. also they're bad at dealing with things that don't have an obvious cause/effect relationship which can be directly observed by individuals, and which have low probabilities of occurring for any given individual and only become significant in aggregate. and sure the globally dominant socio-economic system is geared towards exponential growth at all costs and maximizing externalities to offload costs, and will destroy any individual entity which doesn't operate in this way and sure covid which operates on a far shorter timescale and has far more direct cause/relationship and can be observed directly by individuals and where mitigations measure have relatively minor economic cost in the short term was dealt in a way which was an abject failure by just about every conceivable metric but we've got to be optimistic!
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Apr 4, 2022 20:58
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human industrial civilization is just a big, complicated slime-mold there is no executive. there are no breaks. we are a stochastically deterministic bottleneck event and gigadeath is baked in. all you can do is watch
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Apr 4, 2022 21:02
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I think therfore most living things am This is it, the zenith of my philosophical powers. "seems like there's maybe things existing, anybody else notice this yet?"
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Apr 4, 2022 21:14
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Global Optimism: We are Stubborn Optimists choosing to build a better future together. Hmm quote:Today companies like Amazon, Verizon, PepsiCo, Best Buy, Visa, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Microsoft, Unilever, Uber and many more have joined The Climate Pledge, committing to the bold goal of net zero carbon by 2040—ten years earlier than specified by the Paris Agreement. Hmm quote:In 2008 and 2009 Figueres collaborated with private sector companies that aligned themselves with climate friendly goals. Figueres served as Senior Adviser to C-Quest Capital, a carbon finance company focusing on programmatic CDM investments. She was the Principal Climate Change Advisor to ENDESA Latinoamérica, the largest private utility in Latin America with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. She was also Vice Chair of the Rating Committee of the Carbon Rating Agency, the first entity to apply credit rating expertise to carbon assets. Hmm quote:One of the most important and controversial sessions at TED Countdown was one I was tasked with moderating. The panellists included climate justice activist Lauren MacDonald, a courageous young woman who passionately voiced how many in her generation feel about the current pace of action to counter the climate crisis. The panel also included Shell CEO, Ben van Beurden as well as ‘active investor’ Chris James, who founded Engine No 1, which led the process of changing Exxon Mobil’s Board of Directors to include climate-savvy members earlier this year. I get it now: the truth is in the middle! quote:There are many theories of change; many ways of engaging on the climate crisis. There is not only a space for those differences, there’s a need for them.
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Apr 4, 2022 21:15
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Too long couldn't breathe
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Apr 4, 2022 21:17
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:sure, human beings are notoriously bad at dealing with issues that get imperceptibly worse in the short term but have drastic long terms consequences and massive momentum. also they're bad at dealing with things that don't have an obvious cause/effect relationship which can be directly observed by individuals, and which have low probabilities of occurring for any given individual and only become significant in aggregate. and sure the globally dominant socio-economic system is geared towards exponential growth at all costs and maximizing externalities to offload costs, and will destroy any individual entity which doesn't operate in this way yeah on the short term things are gonna be fine. i'm sure someone will figure it out eventually
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Apr 4, 2022 21:18
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The Protagonist posted:human industrial civilization is just a big, complicated slime-mold Im pretty sure we are approaching a teradeath or even a petadeath. Wheat crops failed again this year due to lack of agua. hurrah! The Big Hungry is comin! Aint nobody tryin to stop it all they will do is fund more cops and more troops forever. Fight hunger with GUNS
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Apr 4, 2022 21:33
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on the bright side big agribuisness is gonna rake in billions of extra profit as they're able to gouge on foodstuffs due to supply shortages
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Apr 4, 2022 21:37
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The Vinja Ninja posted:The Big Hungry is comin! Aint nobody tryin to stop it all they will do is fund more cops and more troops forever. Yea friend, that is absolutely the plan of anyone in power young enough to even think about the topic. Keep power, keep a monopoly on violence, keep resources and push scarcity off on the vulnerable. The provided-for group will keep shrinking and newest starving group will be demonized. And I see no reason it won't work.
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Apr 4, 2022 22:18
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Not Alex posted:keep a monopoly on violence Oh yeah, I'm sure anarchism would solve climate change. Did you just graduate high school?
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Apr 4, 2022 22:23
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Fame Douglas posted:Oh yeah, I'm sure anarchism would solve climate change. Did you just graduate high school? He's talking about access to food, not carbon emissions. My neighbors claw at the walls of the Amazon Prime Fortress begging for enough food to feed their starving families. I push past them and pull a rifle from beneath my coat. "You guys better have this. I don't want the place descending into anarchy."
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Apr 4, 2022 22:54
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Fame Douglas posted:Oh yeah, I'm sure anarchism would solve climate change. Did you just graduate high school? you don't have to ask that question, you're not a mod
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Apr 4, 2022 22:56
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Stereotype posted:they want to cut down 10 acres of forest near my house that is classified as a rainforest due to the amount of rain it gets (>100 inches a year). i am sort of resigned to the fact that capitalism is going to win and it's insanely depressing look on the bright side, it won't be 100 acres until next year
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Apr 4, 2022 23:22
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im currently involved in a project to convert 30,000+ acres of legacy mining & logging land (150+ years of extraction) to recreation and conservation instead of subdivision and development and I swear to god my loving lungs hurt from holding my breath for the past two years. this fucker better get across the line
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Apr 4, 2022 23:29
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Spime Wrangler posted:im currently involved in a project to convert 30,000+ acres of legacy mining & logging land (150+ years of extraction) to recreation and conservation instead of subdivision and development and I swear to god my loving lungs hurt from holding my breath for the past two years. this fucker better get across the line why do you hate affordable housing
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Apr 4, 2022 23:31
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contrasting the death peddlers, the end of ice guy pretty much concluded that to succeed we must kill so yeah it’s a p good book but uhh
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Apr 5, 2022 00:30
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Keep the dream of 1.5 alive everyone, if you stop believing in it the temperature will rise ah so it's like bitcoin is it  
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Apr 5, 2022 00:54
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Pretty sure all the books do that because otherwise they'd be unpublishable
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Apr 5, 2022 00:54
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krispykremessuck posted:to succeed, we must kill hope and learn to accept reality 
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Apr 5, 2022 01:07
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being mass extinctionpilled rules cuz it's win-win: either i've been right for the last 15 years and will get to rub it in for the rest of my life, or we've all been wrong and we'll get to see some kinda unprecedented world wide change (lol it's the first one)
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Apr 5, 2022 01:17
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Apr 5, 2022 01:21
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mark immune posted:being mass extinctionpilled rules cuz it's win-win: either i've been right for the last 15 years and will get to rub it in for the rest of my life, or we've all been wrong and we'll get to see some kinda unprecedented world wide change (lol it's the first one) It's this except for the rubbing it in part because I think you know that the relevant people will never accept your framing and will say something contrarian like we didn't burn the world fast enough.
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Apr 5, 2022 01:25
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somebody needs to link the second TikToker to this thread lol https://twitter.com/ZahraBiabani/status/1511006524407169024?s=20&t=jy2yJmnaBB-Csw4AwgiVVA
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Apr 5, 2022 01:31
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fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1511061426512834577?s=20&t=HWdAFw0WQBsOhskkPj-Qvg lol lmao. 1.5C is inevitable right?  All these people are hosed probably before we even get there, but definitely hosed after. I guess if "avoiding worst consequences" is restricted to only protecting the wealthier white people living in the exploiting countries, then sure, maaaaybe.
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Apr 5, 2022 01:35
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nobody can tell how much warming we've already locked in as long as we press our eyes closed as hard as we can and shout nananananana when anyone tries to read the most fundamental analysis like i.e. "the last time the atmospheric CO₂ amounts were this high was more than 3 million years ago, when temperature was 2°–3°C (3.6°–5.4°F) higher than during the pre-industrial era, and sea level was 15–25 meters (50–80 feet) higher than today."
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Apr 5, 2022 01:53
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TehSaurus posted:It's this except for the rubbing it in part because I think you know that the relevant people will never accept your framing and will say something contrarian like we didn't burn the world fast enough. 100%, it's just about the internal lols i'll have when i'm baking to death in an arizona work camp
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Apr 5, 2022 01:56
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The hope for climate class consciousness is dying. Climate Posadism struggles to be born. Now is the time of lol, lmao.
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Apr 5, 2022 02:33
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Non doomerism about the climate is actually just toxic positivity. Dont @ me
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Apr 5, 2022 02:40
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The planet would be fine and quite pleasant if we just eliminated all the humans. Really nice place.
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Apr 5, 2022 02:55
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Pryor on Fire posted:The planet would be fine and quite pleasant if we just eliminated all the humans. Really nice place. We're doing our best.
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Apr 5, 2022 02:56
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endlessmonotony posted:The hope for climate class consciousness is dying. the space comrades will rightly supervise our containment and destruction
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Apr 5, 2022 03:09
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mark immune posted:being mass extinctionpilled rules cuz it's win-win: either i've been right for the last 15 years and will get to rub it in for the rest of my life, or we've all been wrong and we'll get to see some kinda unprecedented world wide change (lol it's the first one) oh, we're gonna see some kinda unprecedented change alright
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Apr 5, 2022 03:11
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