actionjackson posted:

has anyone here besides me actually lived in a dome

I lived in a dome home for a couple years, all I can say is triangle windows bitch

CODChimera posted:

doomer music is one of the few good things about all of this. obviously other than the constantly laughing of course

Alobar posted:

i'm super vibing with your avatar and username

i really dug the lorax when i was a kid, didn't think we'd actually be living it, tho, ya know?

didn't i just post a lorax song? i'm trippin

the song you posted rocks too btw

quote:

Biden held a second global summit on climate change Friday and urged his counterparts to set aggressive benchmarks for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Still, climate scientist Heidi Roop, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said it is hard to imagine the president meeting his own emission goals with a new pipeline like this bringing more oil to market.

“The new pipeline is designed to carry around 760,000 barrels of oil a day. If we look at the emissions associated with the combustion of that amount of fuel, it translates roughly into around 38 million, the equivalent of 38 million cars on the road. Every year, or around 45 coal-fired power plants burning,” Roop told ABC News.

“If we just consider the consequences to climate change investments in fossil fuel infrastructure that will increase our ability to consume fossil fuels, which are the root cause of our warming planet, sets us in the wrong direction,” Roop continued. “If we want to avoid the worst impacts of a changing climate. We have to start considering other tools in our toolbox that are going to support and sustain society.”

Fernandez said Enbridge wanted to be a part of transitioning to an energy future that relied more on cleaner energy but argued there was still a strong goal demand for oil.

Complicating the debate around for this pipeline in particular, is the exact type of Canadian oil that Line 3 is designed to transport: tar sands. A heavier oil that requires significant energy to both mine and refine, tar sands is considered one of the dirtiest options.

“So the question is, are we going to have the same demand for oil in 2015, if we have it 2021, and I don't think that's the case," Arvind Ravikumar, an expert in the climate impacts and energy infrastructure and associate professor at the University of Texas - Austin, told ABC News. "Therefore, when we are thinking about building these new pipelines, we have to think not just about the climate impacts of the oil that's going to flow in tomorrow, but about whether that infrastructure for fossil fuels is necessary for the next 30 years.”

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The man heading up security for the oil transport company Enbridge, which is currently facing down an Indigenuous-led protest movement against the Line 3 pipeline, formerly helped Exxon shield its operations from demonstrations in Nigeria and oversaw global security for Amazon.

The Intercept recently reported that Enbridge’s head of security, Troy Kirby, likely built a handbook of the kind of corporate counter-insurgency tactics experts say energy companies have applied towards environmental activists in recent years.

Kirby’s LinkedIn page shows that before coming to Enbridge in 2019, he spent three years as the head of Amazon’s corporate security. Documents dated to his final year there obtained by Vice show that under Kirby’s leadership, Amazon security monitored social media posts by union organizers and environmental activists. Vice reported that Amazon dispatched operatives from the infamous Pinkerton agency to investigate reports of employee misconduct at a facility in Poland.

For at least four years before his stint at Amazon, the Intercept reported, Kirby worked for Exxon as an adviser on “strategic security countermeasures” in Nigeria. The Intercept reported that the job responsibilities on Kirby’s LinkedIn page were deleted, but a previous version of his page showed they included managing crises including pirate attacks, employee kidnappings, and “community protests.” Accomplishments listed included “[Establishing] a Nigerian based security network with private and public sector security leaders” and “Oversight of host government security forces,” such as managing a “Security Maritime Operations center including a fleet of 17 military-grade security vessels” that protected Exxon’s offshore oil platforms.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Are we at the "it's too late to do anything to stop it stage" or is there still hope?

Erghh posted:

Leonard Cohen is awesome but preferred this version of the partisan, especially the yelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_ZEovDDKk

Cold on a Cob posted:

from a review of that film

"despairing tone"
"significant progress"
"more numbing than illuminating"

paraphrased - 'it makes me feel bad so i'm going to give it a negative review'

lol. lmao.

Hubbert posted:

hope is the greatest evil lurking in pandora's box

IAMKOREA posted:

yeah but bro what do the crickets eat? insects still have to obey the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass and no biological process is 100% efficient. if you're going to feed people insects, you still have to grow something to feed the insects. what i'm saying is that instead of growing food for crickets, and feeding it to the crickets, and then grinding the crickets up into disgusting cricket flour... just eat the loving cricket food.

IAMKOREA posted:

yeah but we have spent thousands of years genetically selecting for plants that create huge amounts of protein that we can digest. they're called beans. and if your climate change induced famine is so bad that you can't grow beans then you also aren't going to be growing crops for chicken feed (which is what they feed farmed crickets) either.

Alobar posted:

Justin Tyme posted:

SPARC is going to come online in 2025 and we'll all feel pretty silly about climate change


Or it doesn't, and we'll be the last generation to enjoy the finer things in life. Pretty exciting, either way

Mr. Pool posted:

*Bernie Voice* I am once again asking if anyone wants to get into HAM radio with me. We gotta be able to lol, lmao after the internet goes down!! also if someone already knows whats up give me tips

Alobar posted:

ceschi was the last show i saw before the pandemic

God Hole posted:

me, an urban planning master's student who is extremely passionate about the environment, about to graduate, and looking for literally any jobs that would allow me to direct my time & energy toward making the infrastructure of my city more resilient to a changing climate and increased frequency of extreme weather events (a city whose main freeway just turned into a canal for a week): "huh, these jobs don't seem to exist at all!"

Irony.or.Death posted:

consider it your daily reminder that none of the problems discussed in this thread can be solved via the market; your best bet is probably unless' link, spending dozens or hundreds of hours assembling a grant proposal and team, then losing because your competition was better at lies and bribery than you are

good luck!

God Hole posted:

i'm currently recovering from valley fever, a disease with an accelerating infection rate due to climate change. it sucked because the acute period of the illness had the exact same symptoms as covid, during a global outbreak of covid lol so for months my doctor was giving me all these antibiotics to clear up the "long-covid pneumonia" that was ruining my life, meanwhile this fungus is happily flourishing in my lungs.

as the world heats up, fungi are going to build up a tolerance to heat that may one day eclipse the average body temperature of land mammals. do not worry about the vibrancy of life, friends. fungus will thrive in the world we're leaving behind.

GEMorris posted:

Phoebe Bridgers just posted a cover of That Funny Feeling and it is loving perfect.

https://youtu.be/uRl9lNFKMBI

Dum Cumpster posted:

I think it was last year, here around Chicago we had half the trees with most of their green leaves maybe into November. Then there was a really sticky coating of snow that hit us and they all basically dumped their leaves below them in a sad pile overnight when the snow melted off the next day.

AppleNippleBOB posted:

Not trying to derail the thread, but can you elaborate on this?

This sounds incredibly interesting and dangerous

quote:

Just Collapse is a platform dedicated to justice in the face of inevitable and irreversible global collapse.

Just Collapse advocates for a Planned Collapse to avert the worst outcomes that will follow an otherwise unplanned, reactive collapse.

Just Collapse recognises that there will be no justice in an unplanned collapse.

Blowdryer posted:

was this recorded? would like to watch but it was a bad time for me

Blowdryer posted:

was this recorded? would like to watch but it was a bad time for me

Ornery and Hornery posted:

yo you got a link to the ppt or video?

e: saw your response. I’m eager to check out the link when you get it

Blowdryer posted:

can you share if you get access

kyojin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiQR981H_9U

Plastic man don't feel no pain

quote:

Cat's foot, iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty-first century schizoid man

Blood rack, barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty-first century schizoid man

Death seed, blind man's greed
Poets' starving, children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty-first century schizoid man