I’m very scared, it feels like the world is about to fall apart. I will also remember a passage that I heard, and which does not seem to be a joke: you will own nothing, and will be happy! And it seems that this is gradually becoming a reality.
What scares you?
Climate change. Shit is going to get super real in the next 20 years. Like half the planet starving real.
This is so true… Here in India shit is hot like 45 Celsius and 34 to 37 whole night… Can’t live normally without AC, i wonder how bad it’ll be in the upcoming years…
Climate Change is only one aspect of the real problem. Ecological overshoot is probably a better term, but terms like polycrisis and metacrisis have been tossed around.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre’s Planetary Boundaries is probably one of the best synthesis of it.
It’s bad, it’s getting worse. And it’s a motivator behind a lot of the bullshit going on in the world. Russia wants Ukraine for its breadbasket. US wants to end democracy because they don’t believe it will survive what’s coming.
Everyone that matters (Governments and Militaries) knows what’s going on, and the level of public debate is definitely downplaying things to not scare the masses. Meanwhile, we speedrun right into it.
Maybe. It doesn’t make much sense that the same US government Republicans are preparing for the worst that could have just prevented it. Staying under 2C wasn’t that difficult. The hardest part was getting China to go along, and that’s gone reasonably.
Respectfully disagree. Ending fossil fuels is not easy. Technically, politically and economically.
The hardest part was getting China to go along, and that’s gone reasonably.
…China, India, Russia, Japan, Europe, Canada, the middle east, Australia…
No one came close. China’ progress is significant and in some ways commendable, matched only by their failures.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser?country=CHINAREG&fuel=Energy+supply&indicator=TESbySource
I don’t think we’d have to fully end fossil fuels to stay under 2C. I think getting rid of them in power plants, road vehicles, and ocean vessels would have been enough.
And that probably would have taken less resources than these data center rollouts.
We could have kept oil in airlines and military.
That would just have slowed it down not stopped it. Fossil fuels must end, one way, or as it seems to be the case, the other.
To be fair, I’m not sure we could have eliminated gas from residential heating. That’s a big lift.
If we had gone nuclear and managed to make electricity pretty cheap, maybe.
I’ve heard that this technology has been around for decades, but for some reason, they don’t want to develop it, and from what people are saying about this technology, it could temporarily save humanity.
No. Just no.
A wet bulb event killing a few hundred million in the span of a week or two will do it. The knock on deaths just from the disruption of the initial deaths will be equally catastrophic.