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[–] fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Man, I'm so glad this global warming thing is leftist propaganda or I'd really be freaking out right now.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luckily, we can choose to reject reality and believe whatever makes us feel better.

I feel best believing the biosphere is gonna force humanity to “find out” for the last century of fuckin around with a recklessly unplanned terraform.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Love how the collective of humanity needs to find out because the richest few fucked around.

[–] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can always find these people and make them find out. They are actively committing genocide against the human race.

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[–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My uber driver said that global warming is actually true but have literally nothing about human influence.

Some years ago these persons were saying that global warming was a hoax, now that only the human influence is a hoax.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh, yes. The conservative backpedalling.

It's not happening. It's happening but it's all cyclical. It's not cyclical this time but it's not our fault. It's our fault but global warming is good ackshually. Global warming is bad but there's nothing we can do about it. We could do something about it but it's too expensive/late. Maybe it's not too expensive but THE CHINESE!

[–] Juris_LLM@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.

Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.

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[–] FapFlop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be subbed to /r/collapse. I see world news is covering that for me.

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[–] nadwwwimni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)
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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

But I have been recycling like they asked me too. Who's not doing their part? Oh wait ....

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recycling metals is good, especially aluminum. Recycling glass? Not bad. Recycling plastic? That is literally something the oil industry forced by having their resin codes look almost exactly like the recycling symbol. People understandingly confused the resin codes to mean it was recyclable and flooded recycling centers with plastic. So instead of throwing it in the garbage and telling people plastic is not recyclable, they did what they could to recycle it. Sorting and cleaning was a pain in the ass and made it not worth it...in the US. China was happy to accept it for a couple decades until a few years ago. Now most recycling centers only accept plastic with a reason code of 1 or 2. But people do not really check the number on the symbol. A lot of it is 5 which is not recyclable in the vast majority of places but people still toss that into recycling because they think it has the recycling symbol on it. So recycling centers have to sort that shit out and send it to the landfill. It is a massive waste of resources that the oil companies are fine with since people think they are doing their part.

Recycling in general though was not supposed to be a fix for climate change. While recycling things like aluminum is significantly more energy efficient than mining, the bigger issue there is the mine itself.

[–] phatskat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Recycling plastic is more so a lie fed by the plastic manufacturers.

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[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone at work said “If climate change is real, then why don’t rich people sell their beach properties?”

And before you ask, yes they are a boomer.

[–] sonymegadrive@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”

(reference at 4m21s) (piped.video link)

Edit: fixed link

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they actually are... Down in Miami, wealthy people are fleeing the beachfront property and buying up housing where all the poor people live, which also happens to be further from the beach. There have been a number of documentaries and news segments on this trend which you can easily find on YouTube.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh it doesn't matter. They're just repeating the same old tired debunked points from other bigots that also think climate change is a scam. Nothing will ever convince these types of people.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are!

- Carlin

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ocean surface temps are super high too.

Oops. Posted wrong pic at first.

[–] Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, sad thing is we are already signed up for the next 20 years, as in even if we stopped emitting everything tomorrow, we would still have +2°C in 20 years...

And how realistic is stopping everything tomorow?

+3°C.. we would need to have a new coronavirus crisis every years, not just a new one, but stack them on top, in terms of emissions. Ofc you can't have more then one global confinement at a time (doesn't make sense to double confine someone) so that wouldn't even work.

We. Are. Fucked.

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[–] Knightfall@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Considering here in Winnipeg, Canada, where it reaches -35C or even colder, it was pretty wild having weeks on end of +30C to even +39C temperatures, and so soon into our summer.

I never want to complain about the heat when we have snow for 7 months, but that was ridiculous.

[–] bloopinator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The upper Midwest really has some of the worst weather in North America. Get schlonged by freezing temps and snow for 6 months followed by heat for another 6 months.

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[–] arditty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • Hottest 14 days ever recorded so far…
[–] grape54321@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

the a.c. broke in my apartment wish me luck guys

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

As European where AC are not common: Close all windows and window shutters during the day. And don't use the oven.

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[–] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Its ok guys, come winter no one will be worrying about it again.

[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like we’re watching zombies slowly lurching towards us, but there’s people pretending it’s totally normal and nothing to worry about.

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[–] moistmilkman@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

We are so fucked. And this is only the beginning.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why are these Temperatures only since 1979?

[–] Magzmak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm ready for companies to do their ad campaigns about how they are saving the earth with their new policies and products.

Fuck it, please just profit from saving the earth. I dont care if its just doing what we've been asking them to do for the past 30yrs.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Oh, they'll do the ad campaigns and raise the prices in the name of green-ness.

Don't expect them to actually contribute in any meaningful way though.

They know the game over screen is coming as much as we do, they're just going for the high score first.

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