Doctor Jeep posted:

lol, movie after book after tv show after documentary made over the 70 years and the impact is close to zero, the same poo poo is happening today
the power of culture

Chamale posted:

How the gently caress is his design this much worse than a rocket built in the 60s? I mean, it's good evidence that collective action is capable of better things than leaving it all to corporations

SKULL.GIF posted:

is there even any realistic way to clean up all the microplastics? like put the climate collapse aside for a moment, the only way you'd be able to get everything that needed to be gotten would be plastic-eating bacteria I guess

Decades posted:

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0...vGLb6U9U6Aovc3f

So this is a This American Life episode about a father who grows estranged from his family because of their irreconcilably different perspectives on climate change. Yes, I know the succ zone is that way, but give it a listen and I think you'll find that it is relevant to our interests and actually owns.

You see, the story starts out with a father in Washington state who learns about climate change, has an awakening, and quickly grows deeply concerned. He gets his family involved, and he and his wife raise his two kids to be mini American Greta's. They go on tour spreading the good word about the need to aggressively transition to renewable energy. He pushes them hard, optimizing their performances to maximize their effect (the younger the cute disarming one, the older one the doomer), to an extent that quickly grows harsh and abusive.

The activism becomes too intense and all-consuming. There becomes no way left to maintain a healthy relationship with the father, so mom pulls the kids out. While dad keeps pushing climate change activism as a life and death matter,  the rest of the family takes a step back and tries to go back to normal life. The father can't go back and continues to pressure the kids, so they try therapy, and the kids admit they were only interested in activism in order to access their father's love. The father apologizes for not doing MORE to get them more deeply involved in climate work. One of the kids attempts suicide. Eventually the family gives the father an ultimatum and makes him agree to drop the climate activism and go back to being a normal loving dad.

Instead he goes full direct action and gets thrown in jail for helping shut off a tar sands pipeline, accumulating multiple felonies. His family is horrified that he would do something so selfish and destructive to their way of life. Doesn't he care about them at all? They scoff as elements of the media make Dad out to be some kind of hero. Other climate activists reach out to the family to try and explain the father's motivations and the importance of his work, but they maintain he was annoying, harmful, and has accomplished nothing, having postured as a family man while wasting his life on a frivolous personal pursuit. 

The interviewer reaches out to the father again to talk about his family, but he is still hung up on the climate change thing and only wants to discuss the science of the looming catastrophe. He gets talked down for the harsh way he treated his young children. He accepts that he's been left aimless and broken, stranded farthest from the thing he loves most.

The family cuts all ties, just barely wishing him well. The family feels much better having freed themselves of the irrationally intense pressure of their alarmist father. They can finally escape from a constant feeling of looming catastrophe, and they can finally get back to their own lives and take a deep breath. The kids go off to college, their climate nightmares now reduced to once every few weeks. 

Then the PNW heat dome comes (crack). Now the still-estranged father's voice haunts them, scolding them for not doing enough to help. They can no longer block it out, and accept that Dad was right about the climate after all (ping! lol).

Mr. Lobe posted:

How do these people manage to avoid drowning when it rains

Laterite posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidCable13/status/1447370676914974720

"The expected aviation demand in Puget Sound by 2050 will necessitate a second major international airport comparable to the size of SEA."

lol

"Seattle’s airport situation is not entirely dissimilar to the challenges facing Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), which has an artificial limit on its capacity due to legislated strict overnight flight curfews and flight caps — a policy to reduce aircraft noise in residential areas immediately adjacent to the airport. Further expansions to SYD are also challenged by its limited geographical area and its location in the concave of a small bay, surrounded by neighbourhoods.

Before the pandemic, SYD saw over 40 million passengers annually, and was expected to reach capacity by 2030.

Given the unsurmountable obstacles with a major expansion of SYD, after a decade of serious planning, the Australian government began construction in 2018 on a major secondary international airport for the Sydney region, called Western Sydney International Airport.

Western Sydney’s location on farm and rural lands is over 40 km east of downtown Sydney and SYD, but major investments in highway and rail rapid transit will optimize ground access and travel times."

lmao

silicone thrills posted:

Careful, if you keep saying this people might call you a fascist.

Cold on a Cob posted:

which joker laugh though? there are a lot of them

Rime posted:

So you always, always, see new renewables projects in the news as "X Megawatts, enough production to power Y Thousand Households! ". The actual power purchase agreements are rarely discussed in the media.

Homework time: find the common factor between these four projects announced in Alberta for next year:

https://www.tcenergy.com/announceme...arm-to-alberta/

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releas...-808552608.html

https://bluearthrenewables.com/shell-ppa/


https://www.globenewswire.com/en/ne...t-with-Dow.html

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Can someone explain why the yellow line goes up after going down and what "atmosphere starts to become toxic due to dinoflagellate toxins" means? https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1448725571215708163/photo/1

Mola Yam posted:

haha holy gently caress

edit: this is so bad it's almost unbelievable. someone debunk this please. that linear red line looks dubious to me, for example.

anyway if it's true hope i live to see it and then immediately check out because YIKES

SKULL.GIF posted:

plastics

bowser posted:

https://twitter.com/noaaresearch/status/1448293254575841287?s=21

It feels like geoengineering is inevitable as a Hail Mary after everyone refuses any sort of degrowth. And thanks to shifting baselines it will only take a generation or two before everyone forgets there was a time before the skies were always white.

actionjackson posted:

SKULL.GIF posted:

still beyond stunned that someone wrote out that one (1) tree absorbs 3000 pounds of carbon dioxide in its lifetime, then went on to write that one (1) passenger vehicle generates 10,000 pounds of carbon dioxide in a loving year and their takeaway was "we need to plant more trees"

Dr. Furious posted:

people loathe native plants

Homeless Friend posted:

Plastic is made out of oil right? Why don't we just...

Homeless Friend posted:

METRO ONLY - NO LAG - ALL WEAPONS - 10000000000 SLOTS

Rime posted:

Ahead of the start of the World Climate Summit in Glasgow, climate researcher Ottmar Edenhofer has warned of far more drastic global warming than previously feared.

I don't know anything about this dude or if he is reputable.

Mameluke posted:

Me reading forced feminization captions: This loving owns

Me drinking plastic-laden tap water: Wtf this sucks

Dolphin posted:

stop talking like you're in d&d, it raises my hackles

Funky See Funky Do posted:

I think I prefer extinction to the kind of world you seem to want.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

would love to see how goons hilariously gently caress up this one

Serf posted:

this thread becomes more and more insane the longer it goes. is this guy some kinda well-known dumbass?