[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

tiberion02 posted:

my sister lives in Jackson, Mississippi... her husband works at Jackson State, in Environmental Sciences, lmao
well she LIVED in Jackson, Mississippi - she's a climate refugee, now, I guess.

loving hate it on this planet
time to go cope

request: that quote about a series of tiktok videos until you're the one filming

You get to watch the Omnicrisis unfold on your phone everyday until you're the one filming.

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# ? May 28, 2024 01:13

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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*marxist / ecological / biophysical exempt

# ? Aug 31, 2022 01:09

tiberion02: Mar 26, 2007; People tend to make the common mistake of believing that a situation will last forever.

Stereotype posted:

don't worry it will happen in ohio someday too

oh my brother, I figure I'm going out as a result of the by Ice-Tornado-Blizzardcane X winters from now, anyway - so I get that.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 01:09

Sushi The Kid: Sep 10, 2005; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

tiberion02 posted:

nice - they packed up the stuff and gtfo'd. family some hours away I guess.
I dont know anything else, I'm from Ohio

e: she did remind me that a main reason this is happening was from damage to the water treatment plant back in the 2021 Texas Freeze'um... which,

I've been here for 45 years. The problems in Jackson with the water started way before 2021, like mid 1980's. Just put band-aids on problems and kick it down the road. It's the MS way.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 01:10

HiHo ChiRho: Oct 23, 2010

Pryor on Fire posted:

There has been no drinking water in Jackson, MS for a month because of flooding

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1564431286474792962

Send the water to California and call it artisinal raw water

# ? Aug 31, 2022 01:29

Cloks: Feb 1, 2013; by Azathoth

Stereotype posted:

don't worry it will happen in ohio someday too

# ? Aug 31, 2022 01:31

Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

mawarannahr posted:

btw just in case anyone else wondered: Jackson, MS is 79% Black

This seems a little odd too

e: Reeves is a grade-A POS

Lumumba appears to be aligned with Bernie Sanders and, uh, Michael Bloomberg

"On July 1, 2013, Chokwe Lumumba was sworn into office as mayor of the city. After eight months in office, Lumumba died on February 25, 2014. Lumumba was a popular yet controversial figure due to his prior membership in the Republic of New Afrika, as well as being a co-founder of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.

Lumumba's son, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, ran for the mayoral seat following his father's death, but lost to Councillor Tony Yarber on April 22, 2014.[62] In 2017, however, Chokwe Antar Lumumba ran for mayor again, and won. Following his victory, on June 26 he was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!,[63] at which time he declared a commitment to make Jackson the "Most Radical City on the Planet".

In August 2022 the city lost access to water when its largest water treatment plant failed, leaving tap water untreated.[64]"

:thunk:

"Lumumba became more involved in Black Nationalist politics. In 1969 he changed his name to Chokwe (after the Chokwe people, an ethnic group in Central Africa that resisted slavery) Lumumba (after Patrice Lumumba, assassinated leader of the Congo).[2] "

:catstare:

# ? Aug 31, 2022 03:02

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

Huge fish die off from red tide in bay area

https://twitter.com/berkeleyside/status/1564306888065310720

# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:13

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

The deadline for Colorado River states to figure out some cuts came and went, everyone opted to do nothing.

https://twitter.com/LukeRunyon/status/1563526732421820416

It seems that the feds don't want to take charge either because nobody wants to make politically unpopular choices and deal with the blowback.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:22

Tempora Mutantur: Feb 22, 2005

hell yes I'm going to die of dehydration way ahead of schedule

...wait

# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:23

Isentropy: Dec 12, 2010

In related news there's a random bout of "dementia" showing up in NB Can coastal communities that the government is saying is random. Just 20 yo with dementia nothing to see here please pay no attention to the fact the NB Canadian government is entirely owned by the largest fishing firm

# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:24

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

Pryor on Fire posted:

The deadline for Colorado River states to figure out some cuts came and went, everyone opted to do nothing.

https://twitter.com/LukeRunyon/status/1563526732421820416

It seems that the feds don't want to take charge either because nobody wants to make politically unpopular choices and deal with the blowback.

well, sure, a government official could make a decision and get blamed for the immediate results of acknowledging physics, or they could remain in a morass of negotiating committees and then nobody really gets blamed for what happens years later because there too many people involved and all the decisions got made years ago so the 24 hour news cycle has nothing ongoing to focus on

# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:31

Hexigrammus: May 22, 2006; Cheech Wizard stories are clean, wholesome, reflective truths that go great with the marijuana munchies and a blow job.

Isentropy posted:

In related news there's a random bout of "dementia" showing up in NB Can coastal communities that the government is saying is random. Just 20 yo with dementia nothing to see here please pay no attention to the fact the NB Canadian government is entirely owned by the largest fishing firm

Which would be owned by the Irving family who, in addition to everything else in the province including industry like pulp and paper, also own Canada's largest oil refinery in St. John. You do not want to cross the Irvings if you want to stay in New Brunswick.

It's cool though, they just committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from their refinery in accordance with some agreement or other. The 20 year old is just faking it to fit in with all the oldsters who never left and now make up the bulk of the population.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:06

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

Pryor on Fire posted:

The deadline for Colorado River states to figure out some cuts came and went, everyone opted to do nothing.

https://twitter.com/LukeRunyon/status/1563526732421820416

It seems that the feds don't want to take charge either because nobody wants to make politically unpopular choices and deal with the blowback.

the can will be kicked (off the cliff)

# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:17

Raine: Apr 30, 2013; ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER

on the other hand,

# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:19

Harik: Sep 9, 2001; From the hard streets of Moscow
First dog to touch the stars; Plaster Town Cop

Sushi The Kid posted:

I've been here for 45 years. The problems in Jackson with the water started way before 2021, like mid 1980's. Just put band-aids on problems and kick it down the road. It's the MS way.

cross-pollinatin from the car thread but it's the every county in america way because it turns out roads and suburban sprawl are economically unviable and are only possible at all because the feds hand out trillions for new road construction - and bupkis for maintenance.

so building out road is free once but sewer, water, emergency services all come from bonds and then the debt cycle just gets worse and worse and when the roads hit the 10-20 year mark and have to be replaced, welp

so the only thing you can do is raise a bunch of short-term money by taking fed grants to build more roads and expand the sprawl and use the influx of stamp tax for developments to try to keep patches on what you currently have and it gets worse and worse and worse

couple that with industry leaving and good ol' merkin racisim and you have flint, detroit or jackson.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:27

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

In the upper Colorado reservoirs it seems like the strategy is to lawyer up and start questioning the feds legitimacy. Depending on how bad the drought gets from here and how long the legal fight drags on we may actually get to see Phoenix die

https://www.nbc11news.com/2022/08/09/west-slope-water-managers-ask-what-authority-do-feds-have-projects-with-reclamation-ties-could-be-risk/ posted:

I think each project operator is having to look at their contractual obligations with the Bureau and their attorneys are going back over those with a fine tooth comb to see if the arm of the Bureau can reach up through Lake Powell and into the upper basin states,� said Kathleen Curry, a rancher and Gunnison County representative on the Colorado River Water Conservation District. �All of the upper basin projects are going to need to look real hard at what authority the Bureau has.�

Last year Reclamation made emergency releases out of Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge and Navajo reservoirs to prop up Lake Powell. In this instance their authority was not questioned since these reservoirs are, along with Lake Powell, the four initial reservoirs of the Colorado River Storage Project. They store what�s called �system water,� which is used specifically to help the upper basin meet its delivery obligations to the lower basin.

But water managers still don�t know exactly what, if anything, Reclamation is allowed to do with the water contained in other reservoirs with Reclamation ties.

At the River District�s third quarterly board meeting in July, board members repeatedly tried to pin down answers from federal and state officials without much luck.

Montrose County representative and state Rep. Marc Catlin asked state engineer Kevin Rein where he stood on whether the Bureau of Reclamation could make reservoirs with Reclamation ties release water downstream to Lake Powell to meet the 2 to 4 million acre-feet conservation goal.

�If the Bureau of Reclamation comes into the state of Colorado and says it wants to move water� down to Lake Powell, what�s the state engineer going to do?� Catlin asked. �Are those water rights under state law or federal law?�

Rein did not know the answer.

�I�m not sure what authority � this is not one of those rhetorical �I�m not sure,� I really am not sure � what authority the Bureau of Reclamation would have to induce a federal project with state water rights to release them to get to Powell,� Rein said.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:27

Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

lol mountain west states and probably even individual counties are going to start building wildcat dams and no one's gonna do anything to stop them

lmao

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Janitor Ludwich IV: Jan 25, 2019; by vyelkin

your opportunity to get in on the dam floor

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mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

just can�t seem to drink you off my mind in Jackson, lest I get the septic tank flu

# ? Aug 31, 2022 06:17

Orions Lord: May 21, 2012

On a positive note.

My daughter can eat grapes from out of her bedroom window.
They have never been so good.

This is in the north of Belgium.

# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:26

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

Orions Lord posted:

On a positive note.

My daughter can eat grapes from out of her bedroom window.
They have never been so good.

This is in the north of Belgium.

sounds nice, enjoy it while it lasts!

# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:36

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1564757194440118273

quote:

In a paper recently published in Science, Professor Nele Meckler of the University of Bergen and colleagues argue that the climate between around 35 and 60 million years ago may have been considerably warmer than we thought. Their finding suggests that a given level of CO2 might produce more warming than prior work indicated, and it hints that the ocean circulated differently during that warm, ice-free climate.

A backwards-looking "more severe than previously expected".

# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:36

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

lol what if the temperature matches the co2 graph but then also it spikes back down right away, like the co2 graph probably will. like imagine there's 100 years of +20C. lmao

# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:38

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

Orions Lord posted:

On a positive note.

My daughter can eat grapes from out of her bedroom window.
They have never been so good.

This is in the north of Belgium.

my invasive lantern flies love grape vines can i send you some?

# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:44

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

Stereotype is a great poster but the fact that his first act as IK was not to post "start blowing up factories" proves he is not the right IK for this thread

# ? Aug 31, 2022 08:42

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

being able to change the thread title is a fun new place for me to post, which i am quite happy with

# ? Aug 31, 2022 08:47

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

Stereotype posted:

being able to change the thread title is a fun new place for me to post, which i am quite happy with

On a related note, how do I report a thread title :mad:

# ? Aug 31, 2022 08:51

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

Grim Up North posted:

https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1564757194440118273

A backwards-looking "more severe than previously expected".

lmao

# ? Aug 31, 2022 08:56

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Microplastics posted:

On a related note, how do I report a thread title

no he�s right, I think it�s important to focus on the top of the extractive chain. rigs, refineries, and mines

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:04

Colin Mockery: Jun 24, 2007; Rawr

can we rename the [Biosphere Collapse] part to [Biosphere Death] now and match the Pestilence thread

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:13

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Laterite posted:

at which time he declared a commitment to make Jackson the "Most Radical City on the Planet".

Hell, he's got my vote :hellyeah:

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:24

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Hell, he's got my vote

he seems to be real tight with Michael Bloomberg :hmmno:

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:27

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

Colin Mockery posted:

can we rename the [Biosphere Collapse] part to [Biosphere Death] now and match the Pestilence thread

this is the death thread, that's what horseman we are, so to keep with the theme it would just be [Death]

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:42

1glitch0: Sep 4, 2018; I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

tiberion02 posted:

nice - they packed up the stuff and gtfo'd. family some hours away I guess.
I dont know anything else, I'm from Ohio

e: she did remind me that a main reason this is happening was from damage to the water treatment plant back in the 2021 Texas Freeze'um... which,

Is that the main reason? I watched a report about it on CNN today and gently caress if it wasn't the most useless reporting you've ever seen. I assumed it was from climate change in some way but in the 5 minutes of talking about it they never asked the question "so... why don't you guys have any water?" Could have been drought, infrastructure failure, toxicity, or maybe the Joker stole it all. Not a single word about the cause aside from it's been going on for a couple years now.

It's the first I've heard about it. Seems like kinda a big deal!

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:53

Zodium: Jun 19, 2004

Stereotype posted:

this is the death thread, that's what horseman we are, so to keep with the theme it would just be [Death]

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:53

lollontee: Nov 4, 2014; Can't post for 10 years!

man i wish the world ended with my death. just *poof* no more life when i'm gone. with climate change, i can take my death-drive to masochistic heights of apocalyptic visions of the future, never before dreamed possible even by christians

# ? Aug 31, 2022 09:59

Colin Mockery: Jun 24, 2007; Rawr

Stereotype posted:

this is the death thread, that's what horseman we are, so to keep with the theme it would just be [Death]

oh i agree

im just worried if you change it to just [Death] that we'll end up with another qcs thread crying about there being too much doom in the doom thread

# ? Aug 31, 2022 11:06

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

Colin Mockery posted:

oh i agree

im just worried if you change it to just [Death] that we'll end up with another qcs thread crying about there being too much doom in the doom thread

don't temp me with a good time

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# ? May 28, 2024 01:13

kyojin: Jun 15, 2005; I MASHED THE KEYS AND LOOK WHAT I MADE

How about Biosphere of Death

# ? Aug 31, 2022 11:18

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