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Paradoxish posted:Interstellar was a crappy movie that still has one of the best depictions of what a slow collapse is probably going to look like for rich western countries. Food is going to end up being a much bigger issue much sooner than a lot of people expect. Went back home for the 4th to suburban PA on the boarder of rural PA. My sister commented that the corn seemed like it wasn't coming in as well as it used to, and my parents agreed. Seems like it gets a little worse every year, in fact.
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Jul 5, 2023 15:40
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Paradoxish posted:Interstellar was a crappy movie that still has one of the best depictions of what a slow collapse is probably going to look like for rich western countries. Food is going to end up being a much bigger issue much sooner than a lot of people expect. maybe they'll notice when bread loaves start costing twice as much and shrink by 30%
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Jul 5, 2023 15:41
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Paradoxish posted:Interstellar was a crappy movie that still has one of the best depictions of what a slow collapse is probably going to look like for rich western countries. Food is going to end up being a much bigger issue much sooner than a lot of people expect. It's accurate but there were some unspecified large scale collapse events the movie barely referenced. They had a world war and/or breakdown of society to the point where they had lost advanced medical technologies like MRIs until they reformed as a corn based anti-intellectual new normal in slow decline. I assume it was some kind of global depression and famines in the time between complete failure of the established normal and settling into the newer lovely normal.
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Jul 5, 2023 15:45
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it's now shrinkflation, rationing of healthcare, failing infrastructure, increased migrations of people, unusual weather patterns, water rights battles, etc. it's just more of that, until ...? probably war, and we know how that goes
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Jul 5, 2023 15:48
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quiggy posted:Went back home for the 4th to suburban PA on the boarder of rural PA. My sister commented that the corn seemed like it wasn't coming in as well as it used to, and my parents agreed. Seems like it gets a little worse every year, in fact. much like a the massive decline of insects, no one is going to notice until we are like wait we’re producing 80% less than we did in the 90s and oh we have no polllinators anymore
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Jul 5, 2023 15:56
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:it's now Hell yeah we know how war goes  woohoo go red wine and blue...Hey c'mon stop looking at me like I'm some kind of monster. You some kind of doomer?
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Jul 5, 2023 15:59
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hell yeah i'm an accelerationist accelerate to america WHOOPING YOUR rear end
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Jul 5, 2023 16:00
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Been thinking a lot about how we are going to destroy the northern hemisphere. I hope the global south successfully establishes an Antarchto-Communist utopiaJAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:hell yeah i'm an accelerationist
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Jul 5, 2023 16:01
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Xaris posted:much like a the massive decline of insects, no one is going to notice until we are like wait we’re producing 80% less than we did in the 90s I remember in the 90s when any trip over a few hours in length on the highway necessitated focused bugwashing on the windshield. My parents taught me how to get the front grille too without scratching any paint. It's now notable if I hit bugs at all 
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Jul 5, 2023 16:01
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I just had ants get into my kitchen through the air conditioner so personally I say kill em all
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Jul 5, 2023 16:05
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We could never win a war against ants without scouring the surface of all life, and maybe not even then.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:06
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just a few years ago driving around in the summer meant my car was covered in lovebug gore, haven’t seen one this year
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Jul 5, 2023 16:15
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Microplastics posted:Greenhouse Gaslighting gasgaslighting
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Jul 5, 2023 16:21
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ELTON JOHN posted:ive been waiting for the phrase "multiple breadbasket failure" to start making it into headlines I was specifically instructed not to put all my eggs in one basket because of this risk, and now I learn the number of baskets is irrelevant??
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Jul 5, 2023 16:39
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Microplastics posted:I was specifically instructed not to put all my eggs in one basket because of this risk, and now I learn the number of baskets is irrelevant?? eggbaskets work differently, your'e fine don't worry
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Jul 5, 2023 16:58
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RandolphCarter posted:just a few years ago driving around in the summer meant my car was covered in lovebug gore, haven’t seen one this year Even leaving aside land use change, pollution, pesticides etc , we’ve been obliterating bugs by the billions for decades just in the mechanical action of smashing them with our millions of vehicles. Just holocausting them.
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Jul 5, 2023 17:32
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Rapacity posted:Even leaving aside land use change, pollution, pesticides etc , we’ve been obliterating bugs by the billions for decades just in the mechanical action of smashing them with our millions of vehicles. Just holocausting them. 
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Jul 5, 2023 17:45
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lizard people are real and they are eating our bugs
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Jul 5, 2023 17:53
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Rapacity posted:Even leaving aside land use change, pollution, pesticides etc , we’ve been obliterating bugs by the billions for decades just in the mechanical action of smashing them with our millions of vehicles. Just holocausting them. Bugs have incredible reproduction rates and mechanically murdering them with our windshields - even considering the sheer number of those windshields - is basically nothing. Just nothing A single bird can do as much damage
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Jul 5, 2023 18:09
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Microplastics posted:A single bird can do as much damage That's why we need more wind turbines, to save the bugs
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Jul 5, 2023 18:11
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Microplastics posted:Bugs have incredible reproduction rates and mechanically murdering them with our windshields - even considering the sheer number of those windshields - is basically nothing. Just nothing good thing we're also changing the climate too fast for them to adapt to, are killing all the birds too, and are destroying their natural habitats
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Jul 5, 2023 18:22
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2021 was weird because I drove east-west across the country in the middle of July and didn’t have to clean any bugs drove south-north and back from the border to northern Nevada in may and had to clean multiple times
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Jul 5, 2023 18:23
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I'd appreciate it if you all stopped telling people we're doomed. I need everyone else in critical industries to continue working so I can enjoy still getting on the internet while the world burns. Tia.
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Jul 5, 2023 18:24
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Rapacity posted:Even leaving aside land use change, pollution, pesticides etc , we’ve been obliterating bugs by the billions for decades just in the mechanical action of smashing them with our millions of vehicles. Just holocausting them. it's what they get for essentially jaywalking tbh the roads belong to cars. it's the law
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Jul 5, 2023 18:25
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Just a Moron posted:I'd appreciate it if you all stopped telling people we're doomed. I need everyone else in critical industries to continue working so I can enjoy still getting on the internet while the world burns. Tia. those feeding the beast will continue receiving fossil fuel treats until the world’s a cinder
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Jul 5, 2023 18:30
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Thank God, treats is all I have
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Jul 5, 2023 18:54
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The hottest place in Canada yesterday was Kuujjuaq, in far northern Quebec. 34.1 C = 93.4 F Inuvik, North West Territory on the other side of the country was almost as hot. Not good news for anyone hoping for progress fighting fires. https://euro.dayfr.com/local/472078.html The world set a new record on July 4 of 17.18 (63 F) degrees. This shattered the record that was set the day before of 17.01 degrees. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/world/hottest-day-world-climate-el-nino-intl/index.html
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Jul 5, 2023 19:28
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Zeta Taskforce posted:The hottest place in Canada yesterday was Kuujjuaq, in far northern Quebec. 34.1 C = 93.4 F Inuvik, North West Territory on the other side of the country was almost as hot. Not good news for anyone hoping for progress fighting fires. Gaia kept the surprise for the best temperature until America's birthday, like a true patriot.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:31
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if humans and our associated organisms' biomass (livestock etc.) die in significant enough numbers over a short enough time window, do we contain enough carbon for our collective corpses to significantly contribute to atmospheric carbon levels?
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Jul 5, 2023 19:36
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stumblebum posted:if humans and our associated organisms' biomass (livestock etc.) die in significant enough numbers over a short enough time window, do we contain enough carbon for our collective corpses to significantly contribute to atmospheric carbon levels? The death fart of our civilisation, dooming everything that escaped our wrath until now.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:37
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[Biosphere Collapse] our data shows a big wet fart and then nothing
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Jul 5, 2023 19:41
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stumblebum posted:if humans and our associated organisms' biomass (livestock etc.) die in significant enough numbers over a short enough time window, do we contain enough carbon for our collective corpses to significantly contribute to atmospheric carbon levels? We have about 550 billion tons of living things on earth. 0.47% of that is animals, 0.01% of that is all humans. Our livestock is about 100 million tons of carbon and we are about 60 million tons of carbon. We emit about 35 billion tons of carbon per year. About 96 million tons per day. So if every cow, chicken, pig, etc were vaporized and added directly to the atmosphere as carbon, it would be about the same as one day of human-caused emissions. Add humanity to that and you'd be at like, 35 hours of our ordinary emissions. Now how does that stack up for the atmosphere? Natural carbon emissions are like, 750 billion tons per year.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:53
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I especially like the little crinkling treats with the satisfying snap as you bite into one. I broke a tooth on one, likely because of a lack of vitamin d and niacin in our diets as nutrient uptake in produce declines with rising heat. They're the best.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:54
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what are some good baby names? Hope? Sylvester and Collier?
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Jul 5, 2023 19:55
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OIL PANIC posted:what are some good baby names? Bloodbag
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Jul 5, 2023 19:57
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OIL PANIC posted:what are some good baby names? We're going to return to the era of forgoing names until their first birthday so you got plenty of time.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:57
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OIL PANIC posted:what are some good baby names? Paintjob Chromegoblin Slank Gas
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Jul 5, 2023 19:59
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https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1676632703943458817?s=20
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Jul 5, 2023 20:15
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Too far into this page without a graph. Gather round got a graph here! https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1676298166797479937?s=20 You like that? 
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Jul 5, 2023 20:20
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Too far into this page without a graph. All the whores and politicians will look up and say save us, and I'll look down and whisper "here's a graph"
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