slapstick comedy level of human self sabotage. 

Anyone else tell their kids it's best not to have children of their own in the coming future, due to things like this?

Just curious.

  On 9/15/2024 at 2:51 AM, Cyteen said:

Anyone else tell their kids it's best not to have children of their own in the coming future, due to things like this?

Just curious.

if people want to have kids they should have kids.. i could ramble on this a lot but i don't think people will stop having kids... i'm sure many couples who right now are like "nope" will change their minds.. and vice versa.. gonna be a lot of hard choices and obstacles and people working hard for not much  money or opportunity to have that "american dream" or whatever version of that exists in other places... 

there will be fewer kids though i think.. just because of all the pollution in our bodies fucking up our various systems making it more difficult to actually do the process or sperm into egg to how baby is formed. also, social trends.. demographics will continue to change here in USA.  but new tech will happen, problems will be solved.. others will get worse.. it'll all ebb and flow at the pace of people figuring shit out. 

if extractive industries and capitalism can be taken out behind the shed and have their asses wooped that could effect a lot of things. but.. ya know.. well.. whatever. 

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"what we decide this decade will determine earth's climate for thousands of years to come"

also, the temp increase global average is just that.. a global average.. and the land heats more than the other things so a 1.5 degree C increase is really about 3 degrees C increase average on land.. which means it's often more than that and sometimes lower. 

the strain on forests, oceans, rivers, lakes etc.. not to mention animals.. will be immense and the carbon "sink" ability of the oceans and other systems is being overshot and will not work forever as has been. 

so, if we stopped everything the earth wouldn't cool.. it just wouldn't get hotter.. the warming that exists wouldn't go away.. not w/o some magic tech to remove CO2 in massive amounts. lot's of questions answered in this one... lot's of info.. it's all so connected.. going to be a bumpy ride for a long time. 

amazon river tributaries drought. amazon is turning into a carbon generator instead of a carbon sink 

Stark before-and-after pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of major Amazon rivers

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/climate/amazon-rivers-drought-satellite-pictures/index.html

"in canada we're still cutting down old growth forests. everyday brand new tree stump where there was a 1000 year old tree" :(((((

the river there is normally 2-3ft of water.. flood stage is 6ft. it was at 9ft before Helene even got there. this woman does like a river guide who does water rescues etc.. sounds like she's savvy at all the things required of an emergency services type rescue person and very much looks after her little community there.  you can tell she's probably sleep deprived, traumatized and working really hard to take care of people and computer all the things she's experience in the last week or so. 

i read some stuff on a weather channel video about why the flooding was so bad and the reporter mention climate change and so the comments got really batshit fast. people saying "you had me until climate change" and "you mean climate manipulation" and "look up HAARPA. it hit the storm with radio waves that activated the silver oxide and turned the storm" and wack shit like that. broken brains. 

failing to see the obvious fact that warmer climate means the atmosphere can hold so much more water vapor which means cloudbursts and rain in general can be so much more than is normal. not that flash floods and stuff can't happen.. but when 2-4 inches of rain turns into 27 inches of rain there's obviously something else going on.

"but muh hydrogen!"

Localized 

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Sheesh.  it’s bummers all the way down, sir.

new day new bummers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

"BRICS Rejects Global Climate Action"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/brics-rejects-global-climate-action/ar-AA1t4RoI

also

oof. more detail on floods in spain. crazy. hadn't seen a lot of this footage

https://youtu.be/Wl6CdyI7yl4?si=xEsYdPCGCY9k6SAS

Adios green energy for USA, No more climate agreements with EU. 
 

yeah, no. another 4 years we won't make progress, and will likely reverse progress.

policy is essential for fixing the greenhouse gas problem. delay makes the possible futures worse and it makes the worse scenarios more likely.

  On 11/9/2024 at 1:43 PM, may be rude said:

yeah, no. another 4 years we won't make progress, and will likely reverse progress.

policy is essential for fixing the greenhouse gas problem. delay makes the possible futures worse and it makes the worse scenarios more likely.

we're going to fly past 1.5 degrees celsius already so this will make it impossible to stay anywhere near it w/o some major breakthrough like suppository sized nuclear fission for every home and vehicle. if only breast implants produced energy.. we'd be set just using using the suburban fake boobs in america. 

that being said... the scramble for resources is going to intensify. trump is still mad at denmark for saying they wouldn't sell him greenland. 

keep in mind that temperature spike is an average which means in some places it will already be anywhere from 1-3 degrees celsius warmer as average but the extremes will be far warmer.. so, warmer in the poles, warmer in the hot climates and global south. 

november in NE USA???

Sheesh. Oof. Fckin hell  AQI at 2400  

these Cali fires are crazy. santa ana winds always suck. i lived in san diego long enough to know that even w/o fires the winds are annoying hot garbage for everyone. 

evacuations spread to santa monica canyon. close in fires for LA/SoCal. 100mph winds.  difficult terrain. fire fighters pushed to the max. water supply stretched thin. crazy. 100s of homes around each fire already destroyed.

hope any cali people are safe. 

  On 1/9/2025 at 1:14 AM, ignatius said:

these Cali fires are crazy. santa ana winds always suck. i lived in san diego long enough to know that even w/o fires the winds are annoying hot garbage for everyone. 

evacuations spread to santa monica canyon. close in fires for LA/SoCal. 100mph winds.  difficult terrain. fire fighters pushed to the max. water supply stretched thin. crazy. 100s of homes around each fire already destroyed.

hope any cali people are safe. 

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I just moved out of LA at the end of November. Today I found out that one of my friends definitely lost their house and one of my best friends probably lost their house too. Last I checked, my old house is holding steady at 8 blocks away from the evacuation zone. So much more to report than I care to atm. I’m just glad I gtfo’d.

I never liked living in LA, for many reasons (too many to count, actually), but one of the biggest was the intrinsic sense of dread / potential of catastrophe that was exponentially exacerbated by becoming a parent. I KNEW in my gut something like this was guaranteed to happen in maybe the next 10 years but never guessed it would happen within a month and a half of leaving. 
Been having “should have been on that plane syndrome”. 

  On 1/9/2025 at 4:39 AM, J3FF3R00 said:

I just moved out of LA at the end of November. Today I found out that one of my friends definitely lost their house and one of my best friends probably lost their house too. Last I checked, my old house is holding steady at 8 blocks away from the evacuation zone. So much more to report than I care to atm. I’m just glad I gtfo’d.

I never liked living in LA, for many reasons (too many to count, actually), but one of the biggest was the intrinsic sense of dread / potential of catastrophe that was exponentially exacerbated by becoming a parent. I KNEW in my gut something like this was guaranteed to happen in maybe the next 10 years but never guessed it would happen within a month and a half of leaving. 
Been having “should have been on that plane syndrome”. 

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I love love lov being in LA but I get where you're coming from. It's too dry for it's own good. If this is a sign of things to come the future doesn't seem so bright (not that it did before lol but hey).