Global Wildlife Populations Have Sunk 69% in the Last Fifty Years (Reuters)

no crying cat emoji can capture my despair rn

  On 10/17/2022 at 3:51 PM, luke viia said:

Global Wildlife Populations Have Sunk 69% in the Last Fifty Years (Reuters)

no crying cat emoji can capture my despair rn

and the human population has more than doubled in that period…what a strange coincidence. luckily correlation doesn’t equal causation so it’s in no way our faults! *phew* 

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  On 10/17/2022 at 4:24 PM, auxien said:

and the human population has more than doubled in that period…what a strange coincidence. luckily correlation doesn’t equal causation so it’s in no way our faults! *phew* 

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"do you like my owl?"

  On 10/17/2022 at 3:51 PM, luke viia said:

Global Wildlife Populations Have Sunk 69% in the Last Fifty Years (Reuters)

no crying cat emoji can capture my despair rn

huhhuhhh.. 69

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LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - One child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as severe drought threatens to cause the deaths of children on a scale not seen in half a century, a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday.

The situation in Somalia already looks worse now than in 2011, the spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva, when famine killed more than 250,000 people in the Horn of Africa country.

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129642#:~:text=Latest rates reveal some 44%2C000,%2C” said Mr. Elder.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/one-child-minute-being-admitted-malnutrition-treatment-somalia-unicef-2022-10-18/

it's sad that this is what counts as good news. at least the amazon won't be burned down as quickly now

yep. we know. 

https://futurism.com/stanford-scientists-civilization-crumble

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in "Next Few Decades"

"Humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we're sawing off."

apparently they're dying in lot's of regions. ugh. 

  On 10/17/2022 at 3:51 PM, luke viia said:

Global Wildlife Populations Have Sunk 69% in the Last Fifty Years (Reuters)

no crying cat emoji can capture my despair rn

very depressing. I get teary when I think about cheetahs going extinct.

i don't like it

some serious dooming here ...
the talk:

the reader:

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Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

  On 1/11/2023 at 9:47 AM, iococoi said:

some serious dooming here ...
the talk:

 

the reader:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

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just started watching and feel the need to make a comment about the band aid on his forehead. that's some proper aloof-scientist thing for some reason hits me that way... like people don't get cuts on their foreheads or something. 

edit: also, got damn.. he looks like he's carrying a cross.. emotionally. "i know what's gonna happen and it's hard to know"

  On 1/11/2023 at 4:30 PM, ignatius said:

that's some proper aloof-scientist thing

Climeworks verifies that it captured and stored CO2 for Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify - The Verge

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In 2021, Climeworks opened up the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant, called Orca, which essentially filters carbon dioxide out of the ambient air. That captured carbon is then supposed to be trapped in basalt rock formations permanently, keeping the greenhouse gas from lingering in our atmosphere and heating up the planet.

some good news? maybe? ish?

article points out that this is basically just mimicking what forests do and yeah, that's right. so maybe we just need to stop cutting down the forests instead. idk, big brain thinking over here i know, but just sorta...seems obvious.

  On 1/14/2023 at 1:12 AM, auxien said:

Climeworks verifies that it captured and stored CO2 for Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify - The Verge

some good news? maybe? ish?

article points out that this is basically just mimicking what forests do and yeah, that's right. so maybe we just need to stop cutting down the forests instead. idk, big brain thinking over here i know, but just sorta...seems obvious.

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still a long way to go to even make a dent

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Climeworks declined to say how much captured CO2 was in this first batch, citing confidentiality agreements it has with its customers. Microsoft, for one, pledged in 2020 to eventually draw down all of its historic emissions. The company has contracts to remove at least 2.5 million metric tons of CO2 (about 18 percent of its total emissions in fiscal year 2021), according to its latest environmental sustainability report. That includes forestry projects and direct air capture.

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Orca alone has the capacity to capture just 4,000 tons annually; all of the world’s operational DAC plants combined can capture 0.01  million metric tons of CO2 a year. Much larger facilities are currently under construction.

according to NASA

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3020/how-much-carbon-dioxide-are-we-emitting/

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In 1900, almost 2 billion metric tons of CO₂ were released due to fossil fuel usage. By 1960, that number had more than quadrupled to over 9 billion metric tons.

The latest data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center shows that over 35 billion metric tons of CO₂ were released in 2014. *

 

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we're continuing to get worse at the time when we need to be reversing the direction

this is the path to either:

A) the worst case scenario projected

B) even worse than the worst case scenario projected

"oh no why are things getting worse"

"no we need to maintain decentralized private ownership of the means of production beholden to absolutely no authorities and asserting their profit maximizing will through state-provided services of violence"

at this point if you're not advocating radical eco-communism you are a reactionary who wants climate change to continue unabated.  if you are a liberal you are by definition an eco-fascist

Facts facts facts capitalism is destroying the planet and people are refusing to see it and are sleepwalking into ecological collapse.

building in the desert.. what could go wrong?