Hopeless and Broken, Climate Scientists Despair

[@richdiana3663]

I have been brokenhearted for decades, being a humble Nature lover. And the pain continues to stab at my essence. What a world.

[@jayleeper1512]

It has been the saddest aspect of my life to be a nature lover, to have turned my back on wealth to spend as much time as I can in nature and to live during the biggest extinction event in over a million years

[@rayasalter9650]

@@jackjimmy2625 Wishing you the best.

[@David-ng7cr]

Where I am in Canada here I've noticed a change since I was a boy in the seventies. We are in big trouble.

[@hipser]

of pain comes resolve

[@bartroberts1514]

Anodyne for injury is action. Project Drawdown Climate Solutions 101 Roadmap. Talk to people about it, and how government needs to get on that road.

[@giancarlopellizzari1751]

I'm a retired oceanographer. I feel that state of despair and anguish that other scientists experience. I'm heartbroken and so disappointed. I'm depressed...

[@wnklee6878]

Just ignore it like everybody else.

[@rayasalter9650]

Sending good wishes your way.

[@OldJackWolf]

Soil scientist here who almost had a nervous breakdown in 2012 when I learned other scientists had concluded what I had quietly concluded a few years earlier, ie around 2005 - we're screwed. Until then, I thought those ideas of mine were just crazy. I felt that way since my colleagues never spoke about it. (I first learned of greenhouse gases in 1971, btw, and later thought something was up with the climate in the late 80s, but wasn't convinced until 1998). Good luck. And btw, the video from the U of VA about their 50 years of research into death and dying oddly comforting. Fascinating too.

[@davidgreen424]

It's depressing , because even now , with obvious evidence of climate change , the average person still doesn't care . I just don't understand it .

[@christinechandler1662]

I think I understand your despair and disappointment. Since I first heard about climate catastrophe in the late eighties I almost entirely gave up driving and changed virtually all of my habits that were harming the Earth. I always felt close to nature living near beautiful wetlands and the variety of birds and so on. Decades later I am still persisting in giving back to our beautiful planet anything I have taken. I feel that close to her. Having been an oceanographer must feel very painful as it seems to corporate capitalism that the oceans were merely created for their oil and other profits. It is heartbreaking and for those of us who empathize with all of the exquisite life being destroyed how can we comfort each other? If you or I lose a loved one there is comfort from others and remembrance. But for mother Earth how can we find comfort and where do we put our anger because of so many who seem not to care or understand?

[@danthomas6587]

I feel bad for the animal kingdom, the coral reefs and the poor people of the world. It's those that will suffer the worst.

[@LuciannaG123]

It's going to be all people. Perhaps with the exception of the billionaires, but even they will be effected.

[@christinechandler1662]

It's not only the climate. I think of the millions of animals destroyed by "collisions" between animals and vehicles. Most people don't think about this or care about the anguish and destruction caused by the human "addiction" to the auto in it's many forms and it's many functions. Then there's loss of habitat and toxicity in the environment.

[@LuciannaG123]

@danthomas6587 if we don't fix the climate, there will be no ecosystem left.

[@rayasalter9650]

I agree :(

[@Debbie-henri]

​@@LuciannaG123Billionaires won't escape. Even if they have bunkers - they have to get to them first. That could mean having to contend with wildfires, storms, tornadoes, baseball sized hail, searing temperatures, floods, and possibly even mobs waiting for them. Then, even if they could get hunkered down, their security teams have no reason at all to let them live in the lap of luxury while they live out their lives 'serving' them. Why would they? Even if they were paid a million dollars a day, what will that money be worth? And it's not as if the security team's entire families and dearest friends would be saved too. They would have to endure leaving behind loved ones, to look after some spoiled brats - until what? Until they become too old and useless to serve, and be thrown out into a broiling, hostile, dead world? Even if a billionaire thought they could live without the threat of servants and security turning against them, they are all so practically useless they couldn't fix cooling systems, hydroponics, an electrical failure, or a failing kidney. And just think what life would be like for an older billionaire with a young trophy wife who is bored and misses her friends, shopping trips, fast cars, secret boyfriends, beach house and fashion shows. She will become hell for him.

[@pictureworksdenver]

Denial, bargaining, anger, despair and acceptance. The failure to act in response to climate change is painfully difficult to accept, but a deeper dive into what, exactly, should be done ultimately leads to the realization that global industrial civilization, which we are all reliant on, can only be sustained with massive energy inputs made possible with fossil fuels. Without these energy inputs, the human super organism cannot survive as it is currently configured and a global population of 8+ billion people cannot be sustained. Sadly, we are locked onto the path we are on and we have no choice but to continue, despite the catastrophic consequences that may await us. Moving from despair to acceptance is a key step towards creating better outcomes and more meaningful human connections as we live through the profound changes that are now manifest and impossible to ignore.

[@ronaldkable]

For a while now, I've been at 'Post doom, No gloom' regarding civilisation, the pain that remains is for the other living beings

[@pookahdragon5850]

same.

[@KurtAnderson812]

The people that have the most power to affect any change are those that have a vested interest in keeping everything just as it is. Nothing will change.

[@patricialongo5870]

Especially since the vast majority sneer at leftists and accept being directed by oligarchs. Americans certainly insisted on this.

[@h.e.hazelhorst9838]

There two important factors to consider: - Many countries that contribute / have contributed most to the problem, are located in temperate areas: Europe, parts of Nth America. So the people living there experience the urgency only via the media and internet. Loosing your home yourself is something different than seeing other people loosing their homes. - These countries are the richest and have the resources to cope with the problems (to a great extent). This is even more true for the rich part of these countries: the more they contribute, the less they feel the pain.

[@Medley3000]

What should a politician do? If they were serious about limiting CO2 emissions. For example, by banning short-haul flights and business jets or forcing people to modernize their building heating systems, he would be voted out of office immediately. There will always be a party that wants exactly the opposite and wants to replace him.

[@firsttorecess1074]

Bottom line: this is a very breakable world and we are a destructive creature. Those two things don't coexist very long.

[@christinechandler1662]

It's so sad to have to face this.

[@firsttorecess1074]

@@christinechandler1662 it is. We can’t even afford the carbon emissions for positive living and there are two wars going on. If we are still here, Gaza and Ukraine would take 20 years to rebuild. Sustainability was always a myth. Change of lifestyle is possible, but the world is unwilling. We become conditioned to this life. If someone grabbed a purse or wallet and put a gun in the victims face, half the people wouldn’t be able to let go. It’s the same with industrial, consumer culture.

[@dermotmeuchner2416]

I’ve heard 80 years for Gaza.

[@saladinallah5299]

Homo sapiens has long lost its symbiotic relationship with the organisms it lives with. We are the ones who do not deserve to inhabit earth.

[@greengorillah]

Working at a Natural History museum I often wonder how much of the animal species I work with will soon be "history" and if there will even be people left to see them. I start to loose my belief in democracy. Voters (and politicians) are short sighted and don't take the drastic, unpopular, measures that are necessary to keep the planet habitable. We will have to change our entire way of living from energy use, consumption based on economic growth to food production. Wealth needs to be spread more evenly so poor people can afford to take the measures in order to live more sustainable. This is not about socialism or capitalism, this is about survival.

[@saladinallah5299]

There hasn’t been a democracy for over 30 yrs in America….I’m 64.

[@dermotmeuchner2416]

@@greengorillah I’m 75 and it’s always been a farce. Chomsky was/ is right about Manufacturing Consent.

[@peterjol]

I wanted to save the human race ...but nobody wanted to lose their 'job'

[@YeTao-i4v]

There are a few, but no where near enough.

[@mooseymoose]

Or their share value.

[@firsttorecess1074]

Jesus found out the same thing, and it only cost him his life.

[@PandoraJonesmodel]

I'm old enough to remember George W Bush refusing to keep his promises about climate change (which he made only cuz Al Gore was running on climate change) because "we don't want to hurt the economy." No, you just wanted to postpone all the economic damage to future generations cuz you were in the pockets of big oil

[@yoshuadavid]

Why do we want to save the human race ? What if we just bow out like 99% of species who have ever lived? Of course , won't be bowing out gracefully

[@Nottherebutthere]

Honestly, I can't see how we will ONLY get to 2.5 by end of century. We are already at 1.5. With tipping points, seems like another degree will come much, much sooner.

[@JCurcio]

I've seen a lot of estimates (including Hansen) that we'll hit +2C from the late 19th century baseline by 2050. So you're probably right, though predictions get much more fuzzy after +2C for a number of reasons.

[@martiansoon9092]

77% of IPCC climate experts says: 2,5-5,0C (or more) by 2100. All governmental pledges are currently failing, and those should have limited the warming to 2,7C (many scientists says: these leads to likely much higher warming). So 3-5C my is likely estimate by 2100... With 1850-1900 baseline. And without tipping points that will lead to MUCH higher numbers (some estimates 18C...). Honestly we have to: Stop burning fossil fuels. And after that limit other emissions as fast as we can. And use direct air capture methods when they are really usable (no real methods, yet).

[@CT-vm4gf]

I’m thinking it’s only possible if oil and gas run out by then and we are forced to stop burning stuff

[@itspeekaboo]

@@JCurcio Correct, and to some extent even distant geological past climate records, such as the concentration of atmospheric GHGs, can only be used as a basic guideline. And as you have so put it, the farther we go back in time with proxy data, the more fuzzy it becomes. Likewise, as we continue down this path. for several reasons.

[@fr57ujf]

I agree. If we see a population collapse in the second half of the century - which I believe is quite likely - it will significantly reduce GHG emissions and that could attenuate global warming. But albedo feedback, melting permafrost and methane clathrates, and other tipping points may continue to drive temperatures upward.

[@lindarichard9348]

Thank you for your commitment, perseverance and bravery. You are an inspiration and a beacon of hope. Gracias.

[@briangrigsby1842]

I am 71 and my wife and I knew there was no future so no kids.

[@antonyjh1234]

You knew there was no future 40-50 years ago, but here we are, and your children could be in their fifties by now with children of their own. The money you earnt instead of getting spent on children at home more than likely got spent on travel etc that you wouldn't normally do, possibly raising your co2 emissions. I'm childless as well but people have said there was no future for hundreds if not thousands of years..

[@NMPT777]

The whole point is this situation is existential. Unlike other eras. We had stable climates and a lot less humans then

[@danthomas6587]

64 here. No kiddies. I feel bad about that but there will come a time when any children I might have had would curse the day they were born.

[@giancarlopellizzari1751]

65, no children. I have always been afraid of the future.

[@SpeedyCorky]

so you and your wife brought *more than 1* child into this planet, knowing full well they will live/have a horrible future???? WHY????

[@JamesPfeiffer-z2j]

Heat goes out to all those involved in the actual science. It's on par with knowing that there is a fire in a theater. You yell out that there is a fire only to see everyone continues laughing and pays no attention. Even if a few react to your calls of distress everyone is on the same ship and where goes a few there goes everyone. Please continue your hard work but try to enjoy life in the little things. Stay Strong😊.

[@antonyjh1234]

Sending heat out to these people is probably just rubbing it in their faces.

[@richdiana3663]

"Hot heart" he meant to say.

[@JamesPfeiffer-z2j]

@@antonyjh1234 Typo..... I meant to say heart. Sorry!

[@christinechandler1662]

We can still ease the pain of Earth's living beings by helping them out with some food and always leaving clean water out for all. That's what Eliot Jacobsen emphasizes too. Doing anything you can to help other species to survive the droughts, the lack of food, the poor air quality and all of the other miseries that people are creating. Bike, don't drive unless you have to. Plant food plants for other species. Make ponds to provide some water for all and don't use toxic chemicals whenever possible. All of these things and more will ease the suffering and pain of Earth's living species.

[@JamesPfeiffer-z2j]

@@christinechandler1662 Most excellent point. If everyone does just a little it can make a big difference. I know that it's disappointing to see large corporations dumping such large amounts in the environment but little changes have an effect to.

[@Frosty294492]

Today if you hear a few crickets that's nice. Thirty years ago there were so many crickets making noise you had to close the windows.We are inside another mass extinction event.

[@roseappelhoff9282]

Has anyone noticed a reduction in flies and mosquitos?

[@Mistical1982]

Hardly any bees around this summer!

[@Aurelius150CE]

@@roseappelhoff9282 I have noticed a drastic drop in all insect life around my home compared to just 5 years ago. Temperatures are over one hundred way to often and no rain during the summers.

[@stevemacgruther4051]

I haven't heard acricket in 15 years

[@michah321]

​@@roseappelhoff9282Not all all

[@lowket]

Humans can't live without the planet. The planet can live without humans.

[@obsoleteoptics]

But without humans, who will maintain and safely decommission all the nuclear energy facilities we built?

[@hansverbeek822]

@@obsoleteoptics: no one. The sun will go Red giant and engulf the earth and all nuclear waste. No one will be around to witness it. Let it go. Don't waste your lifetime worrying and feeling miserable: love, share, motivate, be positive and enjoy

[@mawasorangutan]

I'm a wildlife ecologist for almost 3 decades, i feel totally hopeless since El nino became shorter and shorter every decade as it affected not only to wildlife, but also start killing trees, like real big trees, because prolonged droughts

[@FacingFuture]

Thank you for your comment. It is heartening for one engaged in the study of the climate to share your personal reaction to what you have been learning and teaching.

[@cformosa]

❤

[@nsbd90now]

Climate change makes me think of the Fermi Paradox which wonders why, given the age and size of the universe we haven't seen any evidence of other life out there. It could be that life has to pass through “Great Filters” which it usually doesn't, and so no one ever reaches the level of interstellar travel or communication. I wonder if this is ours.

[@Corrie-fd9ww]

I’ve wondered if other species on other planets also overshot their carrying capacity, maybe because they, too, believed they were at the center of life and the universe. Maybe the biggest universal lesson for “smart” species isn’t progress but figuring out, after it’s too late, that all this life wasn’t about “me”.

[@bugsyboy5323]

Seriously? Have you not been following the UFO (UAP) in the news? There was a Congressional hearing last year with more scheduled this year and more whistleblowers coming forward. The governments of the world have been keeping this under wraps for at least the last 80 years. There is strong evidence of a US crash retrieval program where crafts have been recovered and reversed engineered. Not only are we not alone but we’re being visited so it’s time to get your head out of the sand and get up to speed because disclosure is coming. It’s a drip drip drip process to get the population accustomed to this fact without running for the hills.

[@Limewire1984]

Lol, I think aliens came, saw us, and left. I'll let you decide why.

[@ExtinctionLife]

Right on. I have wondered how many times this exact scenario has played out in the universe.

[@billk4285]

@@Limewire1984 I'm sure I'm missing a few but Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Issac Asimov and going back to Voltaire all said at one time or another the equivalent of "Earth is the insane asylum for the rest of the Universe". What sane entity would chose to hang around an asylum?

[@solarwind907]

In my future, there will be someone who is amazed how bad the storm is. How high the water has gotten, how strong the winds, how many glaciers have melted “it’s simply amazing!“ They will say. And I will look at them, and probably scream“WTF did you think was going to happen???!“

[@DaveE99]

The other issue is the way the media talks about politics is it turns it into “great man theory of history” lens + “us vs them” instead of helping us make it through the complexity and learn together.

[@EmeraldView]

It's over now. We're going to have to try to adapt as best we can. But that too may already be a lost cause I'm sorry to say.

[@Mike80528]

We've gone over the cliff. Right now there's still some inertia, but we are Wiley Coyote holding the sign floating in air...and we know how that ends.

[@inasl4551]

just another excuse not to make real changes.

[@Mike80528]

@@inasl4551 Really? Explain, because that is yet another extremely ignorant statement. I completely believe humanity is doomed within 70 years. Extinct? Maybe not by then, but almost certainly. And yet I have made major energy efficiencies in my home, installed heat pump, disconnected my gas stove and am using induction, and installed 16kw of solar and 60kwh of battery storage. I'm looking to build a greenhouse and looking at whatever else I might be able to do. Assholes like you presume the TRUTH will shut people down. I think that is projecting you own issues and selfishness. Many of us feel a moral obligation to extend life for as long as possible because even if we are all doomed, until that point life remains precious.

[@richdiana3663]

And now they find wet bulb temps are found to be lower than previous thought. Science is always evolving. Wish we were.😢

[@pismopleasure]

LOL

[@julieisthatart]

I took a college class in 1967 about this. We did all sorts of things we believed would help. It is not new to worry about it. Laws were passed, but we didn't help it anyway.

[@Debbie-henri]

My father worked briefly for a climate research unit in the beginning of the 1980's. He told me of the forecasts, and they're all coming true. Climate research, unsullied by the prattlings of the common media have been dead on the money with their predictions. His warning influenced me to change my career path. Although these predictions were made public, I could only look on in disbelief as all those around me continued with increasingly wasteful, indulgent, even hedonistic lifestyles - to the point that I have dumped friends and rejected those trying to be one my friend, because their high consumer ways sicken me. There are so many, many ways we can trim our impact, a little here and there. It all makes a difference. I took a personal pledge not to fly abroad (I was given a gift of a ticket once. I used it as there was no way I could get it reimbursed. That was 35 years ago. I have not flown since, and not do I go on cruises). I don't wear make up. The accumulative impact of plastic make up containers must be astronomical. Just 2 days ago, I was waiting in line at a supermarket, and a mother and daughter had 2 hand baskets full to the brim with cosmetics. No food, just cosmetics. Absolutely appalling sight. And all this not creates plastic waste, but costs high in terms of resources and energy as ingredients are gathered, mined, refined, milled, manufactured, packaged and advertised. So girls, go against convention and go natural. You'll look better for it and your skin will thank you for not walking around like a greasy, painted orange. I don't bother with fashion. Mostly, my clothes come from charity shops, especially shoes. Charity shops are now throwing away mountains of perfectly good clothes, simply because they don't have room for everything. They pick out the very best, and the rest gets taken to Africa, where it is causing environmental mayhem. I'll buy clothes that will give me 'levels' of use. New enough to wear to town or out somewhere. When it gets a bit shabby, for around the house. Shabbier, for housework. Shabbier still, for dirty jobs like decorating and gardening. If they are cotton fibre clothes, my husband uses them as rags in his workshop or I use them as dusters. (Mechanics and garages would be happy for occasional donations of cotton rags. My husband used to get donations from his mother's friends too). Transport. We have an old car which we keep very well maintained. Most inefficiencies are caused by people 'not' maintaining cars. No, I don't have an EV, because I object to the ways some of the elements required are acquired. Also, safety issues. The frequent out of control fires EVs cause and the pollution this creates 'must' be taken into consideration, plus the source of the electricity used to charge them. Same with hydrogen vehicles at the moment. We don't use our car very much at all - usually just once a week, that's for grocery shopping at the nearest town. Despite our very rural aspect, we still have public transport that one of us uses daily and I will still use several times a year at least. If you live in a town or city, you should be using public transport as much as possible. I used to use only public transport when I lived in the south, where the system is much better. Plant trees. No garden is no excuse. There are tracts of wasteland, embankments, deep road verges where the addition of trees will not cause any visual obstruction to traffic, abandoned estates, and derelict sites can be replanted to help Nature recapture ground. Even if someone decides to develop a site later on, the planting of a few trees raised from seed in a doorstep planter or windowbox will still benefit wildlife for a while. There's also a kickback in the food industry - which has spent decades formulating ultra-processed foods designed to make us feel hungry for more. The best thing you can do for yourself and the planet is recognise this trend for snacking between meals is artificial, generated by money-making companies, and will ruin your health in later years when the accumulation of chemicals and refined substances have taken their tol on your organs and digestive system. I used to snack quite a lot, especially as a kid, a teen, and through my 20's, and I'm paying the price for it now. The older you get, the longer it takes to recover. Stick to wholefoods. Buy organic as often as you can afford - and that 'tells' the industry what the customer wants. Reject sugar, artificial sweeteners, refined seed oils, refined grain starches, chemical additives - that's what the food industry wants you to eat, because it's super cheap for them, and they can use them to make their food highly addictive. Believe me, when I went wholefoods, I dropped one meal a day, completely. I didn't want to eat so much any more. And one meal less means less expense, less packaging to throw away/recycle, as well as better food choices meaning better health. Stuff - we all seem to be starry eyed by technology and 'things' because we have had a lifetime of training through ads. It's hard for some to kick the habit (my son has a room filled with stuff, my husband is a sucker for a bargain that he normally has to send back because it doesn't last a day). But honestly, less stuff - less to dust, less to move, less to find room for, and a way better bank balance. Get only what you really need. Save your money - you're going to need it soon.

[@FacingFuture]

@@Debbie-henri Thank you for your service!

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

I live in Vancouver BC. There are no more snowcaps on our mountains in summer. Even our ski slopes are often barren!

[@em945]

Really? Is that whistler you are referring to? This is substantial change.

[@robg.7681]

there's no point in living the rest of your life in anger and sadness because of the actions of others. just do what you can and thats it. Live your life and enjoy it while it lasts.

[@The_Reckoning_Is_Here]

It is very disheartening - I live in the northeast and had 2 tornadoes almost hit my town I’ve never been so scared in my life. Something needs to be done it’s mind boggling the government has been warned since the 70s. Going into hurricane season is especially terrifying with sea surface temperatures.

[@michah321]

There have always been tornados in the northeast. Where I grew up in NY about 7 kids were killed when a tornado hit their school in 1990. In PA, once in a while a tornado will take out a few buildings. That's not new

[@BobBinghamNZ]

The oil and coal companies have won and they have traded profits today for the future of their and your children. Like a heroin dealer selling drugs to his children. He makes good money for a short while and then its a disaster, but all the time he knew what he was doing.

[@etienne8110]

The thing is, the richs still thinks they ll be able to protect their children, either by sending them on mars, in space or on an island. Our biggest mistake is that our aristocracy aren t our best, just our most sociopathics. Thus they are dumb and dooming us all.

[@pismopleasure]

You can blame the drug dealers, but our demand, our desire for cheap extra energy is what drug dealers might call a ready market. The only way we could have avoided the predicament we're in now is to have opted for a life of simplicity, something like the Amish, planetwide, before oil or even coal became a cornerstone of advancement. We like cushy. We marched headlong into a Gilded Age. It's basic human nature that got us to where we are and it will ultimately be our finish.

[@etienne8110]

@pismopleasure it s not "human nature" as you showed, some cultures went against this "nature", be they amish, aboriginals, amazonians or pastors of the asian steppes. Many nowadays still live in harmony with the ecosystem sustaining them. Capitalism is the issue. Infinite growth with money for sole unit and with natural ressources having zero value. Thus exploiting them to the end no matter the consequences is the only logical ending.

[@tr7b410]

When profits take precedent over people, you know any society is on a downward spiral.

[@patricialongo5870]

But the alternatives to profit driven systems are unacceptable! Those alternatives really are communist and socialist. Americans refuse to even permit those alternatives to exist. Why would we expect them to allow anything short of killing everything?

[@donniemoder1466]

When people take precedence over the ecology, then people are being set up for a catastrophic event of self annihilation.

[@TheDoomWizard]

Been studying it for years. Noone cares. We lost the ability to speak to each other.

[@briansprock2248]

We will rediscover the ability to communicate.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

@@briansprock2248 how?

[@giancarlopellizzari1751]

So true...

[@wnklee6878]

Everybody will care. When it is too late.

[@christinechandler1662]

And we lost our ability to empathize. We lost all gratitude for our beautiful home, the mother Earth.

[@gashacker1]

You all need to be clear, and explain to everyone, that the agreed upon measures are not even remotely close to what would be required to significantly affect the rate of climate change......

[@dawnalbright]

Keep up the good fight, Cerezo Mota!

[@yannlohezic4716]

One needs images. 2 degrees more is not the difference between 14 and 16 degrees. 2 degrees is 14 % more than 14 degree balanced environment temperature. Add 14 % to your 37.5 Celcius body temperature and you are at 42.75 Celcius, either feeling extremely bad or dead as your liver has stopped functioning. Look at the earth as a system, just like our body and things are easier to grasp.

[@ranter7100]

Average temp been 13 degrees hotter than now. Planet did not die, Right now our planet is cold in terms of over all Temp. This is shown in ice core samples.

[@bartroberts1514]

@@ranter7100 Your claims are specious. When the temperature has been much hotter than now, our species didn't exist, and nor did most of the plant species we rely on for food. The region between the Tropics was uninhabitable. "Planet did not die," is the lowest, most cynical possible bar, when we remember fossil trade is doing this to us.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

@@ranter7100 Yeah bruh that was like millions of years ago before mankind evolved you clown.

[@rdallas81]

​​@@ranter7100yeah right! Tell that to the melting glaciers. Go hang out with the flat earthers...

[@GregSteele-os8yp]

What a waste of space you are.​@@ranter7100

[@scottdavis3571]

My wife and I didn't have kids. The worst thing that you can do is bring children onto a dying planet.

[@EmeraldView]

I get angry at any one I see with small kids now. While simultaneously feeling really sad for those kids.

[@bartroberts1514]

Worse than misanthropy?

[@cformosa]

I didn’t have kids, I knew as a child that this was coming.❤ I am a nature lover, all the birds , animals, the oceans with their inhabitants and the trees, I am having a hard time with this.

[@ghostrich3948]

I am post sad, having arrived at acceptance. Humans are too emotional to not be driven by greed. We did this to ourselves.

[@ToudaHell]

This is why i became a bookkeeper after getting a postgrad in environmental science.

[@Mistical1982]

I became a counsellor after my wildlife conservation degree 😬

[@malcolmdean2303]

Thirty years ago, James Lovelock (inventor of the electron capture detector and author of the Gaia Theory) said of global warming that a rise by 6-8°C was already "baked in the cake" and could no longer be avoided.

[@nicolatesla5786]

20 years ago, I started to notice the big changes in the British Columbia Forest system. British Columbia Canada has an enormous amount of forest add the health of the forest is heavily dependent on the cold temperatures. The cold temperatures are produced by the polar vortex period for 10,000 years the polar vortex and Glaciers would be stable. That all started to come to an end roughly 16,000 years ago which was the end the ice age but it was not the permanent end. Roughly every 25,000 years an Ice Age would normally form and that's caused by the Milankovitch cycle. But in 1850 which is very very very very very recent in geological time, background carbon dioxide from the fossil fuel industry was departing from the natural carbon dioxide cycle period of the national carbon dioxide cycle would swing between 180 to 280 parts per million. So basically that cycle was broken. It started to break between 1800 add 1850. And for the first time in nearly 10,000 years, glacial ice melt started to retreat. For the last 100 years scientists have been warning the United States government that the consequences of rising greenhouse gases would cause a Cascade of climate emergencies, initially there would be subtle such as the retreating glaciers, and eventually it would progress to other disasters. Basically planet Earth is plunging into another greenhouse gas mass extinction event. This event is caused by human activity. Humans have been burning coal oil and natural gas for the last 150 to 240 years. And all else gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere pair to the other causes methane emissions. So Jesus Christ even in the 1700s the oil industry in this case Exxon Mobil was burning oil add new the carbon dioxide with overheat the planet Earth turn its own scientists they hired and to do the test it would overheat planet Earth and create disasters in other words heat waves, floods and droughts. The CEO from Exxon took that report and hit it inside of a cabinet that's designed for archive to documents scared that cabinet is in the basement and largely forgotten about it and now not only is it the fires, the floods that damaged buildings and cities, it's the heat waves that will kill people large amounts of people. Physics always wins violate the laws of physics and pay the consequences!

[@robertschaefer4918]

The sooner economy collapses globally the better for natures recovery… and the surviving rest of mankind; sad but true

[@Muddslinger0415]

Agreed economy has to be abandoned

[@benbullard2298]

What should happen is for the commons to stand up to the oligarchs and multinationals and tell them "enough, your way has failed the people of this planet". In reality governments will keep doing what they are doing until the climate and ecological situation gets to the point where it negatively affects the wealth of the the people that run the governments, the oligarchs and multinational corporations. How many people suffer or die won't cause change, it has to be something that "affects the bottom line". For the rest of us we need to be planning how to live on a warmer and arguably less hospitable planet.

[@Livingthewild]

The problem isn't the people who run industrial civilization. The problem is industrial civilization. Actually, we have a predicament - there are no solutions.

[@inasl4551]

dont use that as an excuse not to make changes

[@Livingthewild]

@inasl4551 I'm making no excuses, just stating fact. Playing makebelieve has never been my thing. If you enjoy making "changes," do your thing. Just don't expect positive outcomes. It is waaaay too late.

[@inasl4551]

@@Livingthewild How do you when you dont even try. Scientists say we still got a chance.

[@Livingthewild]

@inasl4551 When it comes to near-term human extinction, climate scientists are very opinionated. The problem is, they don't have a clue. They are out of their lane. Life scientists (ecologists) are not near as optimistic. If you're diagnosed with cancer, would you visit an oncologist or a podiatrist? There is a reason ecologists are not given a platform on profit based media. Doom doesn't sell very well. Anyway, I appreciate the discourse. Thanks.

[@drzewowit]

My grandparents survived WWII in Poland of all places and even established families then (thanks' to which I exist now). Challenges are to be faced, not despaired about. Yes; many of us will die. More lives will disrupted. We will prevail and learn to exist in a damaged world. Perhaps in time we repair it? What is the alternative?

[@obsoleteoptics]

Extinction is the rule. Survival is an exception. - Carl Sagan

[@drzewowit]

@@obsoleteoptics Obviously. We will have our end as a species at some point. If we despair; it will be the point. If we face the challenge- we have a chance till next bend in the road, whatever that might be.

[@johannageisel5390]

But I don't want to die because some rich assholes can't get enough!

[@BunTim]

Dear amazingly committed climate team❤ We know that the following countries are emergently requested to follow international co2 standards and plastic norms, airfilter implementations and sewage cleaning facilities: India, China, Russia and US! These major polluters have!! to accept and follow up within the next 2 month moratorium! I sent my urgent request to the highest instance who us still not willing to obey. I am going to intensify the pressure on Him in order that this Gaia gets a fair chance to recover from us humans. Thank you!

[@dondesper6552]

Amazing show. Thank you.

[@D0praise]

And here so many sit in their cars, engines idling away to power that AC. 50 years of climate science and more people idle engines than any other time before

[@marieb9961]

We need people to talk, sing, make theater , music to attract and inform the youth about this 😮

[@harrynac6017]

I have no airco, my neighbours have since this year. When at night I open the window to cool my place down, I now get their hot airco air.

[@FacingFuture]

it's amazing how well convection works. Close the windows and blinds in the daytime, open them at night. Warm air rises

[@edgarcayce2.02]

And just to add insult to injury, the one with the loudest voice continues to deny the situation altogether, you know, at his ego boosting rallies...pushing us, hurling all of us towards the precipice.

[@FacingFuture]

Thank you for your comment. We do need to pay close attention to the "political climate", as well.

[@robertlussier2944]

The oil executives knew of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change in the '70s. They paid their own scientists to cloud the issue, and the same tired arguments against man induced warming are being used today. Governments have been in the industries pockets ever since, and our leaders are reluctant to give up the oil teat. I cry for my grandson😢

[@billk4285]

My heart goes out to all the young ones, We have a lovely six year old granddaughter of our own. My wife and I have done all we can to make sure she has a refuge to go to. We own land in an area that seems to be dodging much of the worst of what's happening. Because of how we've set it up , she has a good chance of having food, water, a safe place to live in and a way to stay warm and cool without the need of the power grid. She has a good heart and I hope she will reach out to help others to get through what's coming. It's all we can do and we both know it may very well be hopeless but we had to do something. I mourn daily for all that are coming after us, we should have done better.

[@corwin8558]

Sorry dude, oil executives knew in the 1950's. I learned of climate change in the 70's at the University of Miami

[@briacide]

@@billk4285 The biggest issue is the AMOC collapse, we are almost at the tipping point (some believe its already past) this isn't an issue affecting Gen Alpha only, this is effecting all of us - right now. We need to to go full french or we are all gone within a few years.

[@Frosty294492]

They should be heading to jail.

[@antonyjh1234]

Have you removed oil or fossil fuels from your life? If you find it impossible to remove oil from your life then you know the problem governments face. Try removing oil from your life, no synthetic threads, no oil based paint, no food fertilised by synthetic fertilisers, you won't have much left and if you can't be an example to your grandson, just in your personal life and you have had the benefit of money and I am going to presume, american money and your whole life has revolved around it, expecting governments to change before you do is hypocrisy.

[@jamesdufeu8046]

Money rules, we are living in the dark ages.

[@Zookeeper.]

I think we urgently need to talk about cognitive biases and personal interests vs hard truths at all levels. Common sense really..

[@bartroberts1514]

Or, act. Project Drawdown Climate Solutions 101 Roadmap.

[@antonyjh1234]

The cognitive bias of this person dripping in oil based clothes, makeup, nails, talking about change while she hasn't acted shows it's all around us.

[@antonyjh1234]

@@bartroberts1514 Do you know what actions can be taken that will change the entire economic system, if money is a ticket to energy?

[@BufordTGleason]

Yes we do, or did, regardless, I can’t get out of my mind that forces with the most to lose will twist what is happening as God’s will and use it to Whip up the people who need scapegoat and launch a war. They seem to be preparing the ground for that eventuality

[@mikeallosso]

We are all Mad Max

[@karlstone6011]

I've been where you are. I despaired for years; terrified myself seeing these huge issues through the lens of a Limits to Growth perspective. However: In 1982, Nasa/Sandia Labs developed the technology to harness Magma Energy; practically limitless heat energy from the earth, converted to base load electricity and clean burning hydrogen fuel. Given such energies to spend, we could supply global energy demand carbon free, and have surplus energy to power desalination, irrigation, recycling and carbon capture. For the past 40 years, for the political purposes of an anti-capitalist critique, the environmetnal left have ignored Magma Energy and maintained an assumption sustainability requires sacrifice of the economic good. That's not necessarily so. The 'Limits to Growth' bottleneck is not absolute. Rather, resources are a function of the energy available to produce them, and Earth is a big ball of molten rock.

[@melusine826]

Also, the rates of violence and DV spike during heat waves😢

[@johngrundowski3632]

Thank you for your insight and information.🌿🌱♒️♾️

[@chrisyates2591]

Thank you for sharing your ideas and knowledge Jem Bendell book Breaking Together may help us.

[@francesm2580]

I think we’re going to hell in a hand basket, but I’m not stopping trying and working as hard as possible to reduce the energy use of my country. I have kids. I’m no longer thinking of my future but theirs.

[@mikebolin4311]

This is just my opinion...it is up to each of us to do something. Government and business do not want to change what is making money. People who work for these companies, do not want to say anything b/c of their jobs. AC creates more heat outside while cooling the inside. We drive less, consume less, do not fly...we cannot think big business care. They care about $$$ What can WE/YOU do? It has to be grassroots. Last year, for the first time, global oil consumption surpassed 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY X 365 Think about that...everybody can do something, if they want something better than doing nothing.

[@nonearlylove]

As the Consequences and Threshold of Pain increase, perhaps more people will catch on..? Until then, Denial isn't just a river in Egypt..! Whew..!

[@romanbrandle319]

We will know that their is meaningful change when we are asked to only work 3days a week, without starving. That would create a dramatic reduction of carbon emissions. I won't be holding my breath for that to happen. 😢

[@kolbybeautymakeupartist]

Be calm, be strong, love one another, and have faith. ❤

[@kenknight6201]

Unfortunately I gave up about 20 years ago. I felt like I was the only person who cared and it didn't make any difference.

[@StephenHALL-g8u]

Way back in 1975 I meant Jacque Cousteau getting drunk in Sharm El Shau because he already saw the death of the coral environment!

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Hooked on greed and a predator species to boot. There's evil afoot in the world. There's little surprise that sensitive intelligent people are despairing. It's said by activist scientists and others that with action comes hope. I've found it true in the moment, but one needs to be extremely resilient and well supported , and give support equally in return. As has been said here I wanted to save the world but not lose my job. Saving the world as a habitable environment is our real job.

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet Now

[@helenaaberg2296]

I've been vegan for a long time and the conniving shit, lies and cruelty that people accept and promote is mind blowing. More awful things get more conniving rich and their clowns have come. Rise of the nazis has not happened by accident. Rich are saving themselves and making us fight for them. Also, if they can make more money doing it, they are and will. Most people believe more in money than in reason unfortunately, witch will be our doom.

[@Thomas-sb8xh]

After all these catastrophes we've experienced: wars, extreme climate events etc - we as humankind stil have basic learning problem, this is not my dear friends feature of intelligence...homo sapiens ? I don't think so.

[@occupyscience-9479]

To face the climate problem we need to change the operating system of our societies. That means revolting against capitalism. How can this be done? I have no idea. I do have a proposition though: give nature it's genuine value. This is not dollars or gold. Create a new measure of value the essence of life, what some call ecosystem services. Ration this value to all with equal share. all people breath the same oxygen.

[@ricksmall5240]

Why are the adults/parents waiting for politicians who are adults/parents to force them to stop using fossil fuels and sacrificing the children

[@obsoleteoptics]

Child sacrifice is a time-honored tradition as old as the hills

[@paulachenkonobert3802]

When you find out your degree is not worth the paper it is printed on.

[@azscab]

Find a waste area, capture and hold the rain water, build a forest, build soil. This is how we remove co2 from the air. Also create an economy based on mining co2 to make products we already have found and wood.

[@apextroll]

I agree, sequestering carbon by building green space and habitat is the way to go. Also many on the right are concerned with environmental degradation so it is a point of agreement.

[@tradeprosper5002]

Planting trees can only buy you 200 Gigatons CO2 at the most, so it just buys us a few years. We are emitting roughly 40 tons/year.

[@apextroll]

@@tradeprosper5002 It is far more than planting trees. Grasslands and coastal habitats sequester far more than a forests can.

[@bartroberts1514]

@@tradeprosper5002 While the urgent need to bring CO2 below 350 ppmv requires drawdown, and photosynthesis to sequester carbon in biomass products is the most cost-effective drawdown process, we must foremost end fossil emissions. Lucky isn't it that biomass can provide us anything fossil does, more economically?

[@obsoleteoptics]

Just farm algae

[@dral9971]

We are at war. We don't have time to be depressed. We have a world to save.

[@mikestaub]

Everyone is at a different stage in the grief process, this is normal.

[@peterjol]

the only solution I can think of to beat the problem of nobody wanting to lose their jobs, is to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would almost all agree we NEED to have done and work much less. It's the ONLY possible way you could quickly offer 'alternative' jobs to all the many millions of people in the fossil fuel industries (or any other planet harming job for that matter)

[@olenagirich1884]

Please provide example.

[@climatebreak]

climate change would be solved if everyone tried cheap diy small solar systems and began reducing their dependency on the grid. but the kneejerk reaction in the usa is expensive rooftop solar cause the messaging intentionally sucks. solar is so cheap and easy a teen could do it. best decision of my life.

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

It is a never ending campaign. Be wedded to the process not the outcome but spread the need for urgent and step wise change. Outsourcing the climate, ecological and social emergency is the preferred solution of governments and corporations. That is not acceptable.

[@JulioToruno-e3n]

We've already sailed through 1.5.

[@rolandgibson-murphy2853]

Children/people today, like centuries prior, are dying as they have been due to the effects of poverty. They are praying to live a "comfortable" life, or move to a country that has more opportunities. This will increase pollution and greenhouse gases. People should not suffer the negative effects of poverty. So I always wonder why with so many who are dying now, is there a call for more births? It's a fact that the top 10-20 percent negatively effect the Planet than the bottom 50%, but it's not because the bottom 50% want to live as they do!!! They would and will be given the opportunity. By the time we figure out that fewer people not encouraged by consumerism and show-off- selfishness who live a sustainable life with every human on Earth, it will be too late.

[@FacingFuture]

fewer births is wealthy countries would mean less consumption of resources, unless people subscribe to voluntary simplicity

[@dutch-prepper6587]

@@FacingFuture Most demographic models end up with a world population between 3B and 5B as long term sustainable for this planet. Mankind has passed this point already. Collapse of current human civilization is inevitable. Perhaps after this or the next couple of mass extinction events, mankind will learn and adapt.

[@ricksmall5240]

Equilibrium, when the temperature is greater than the body temperature, the body will start absorbing the heat until equilibrium is established, the greater the temperature difference the faster the heat transfer into the body

[@FacingFuture]

The implications of that are already visible in the climates that have experienced drought and high humidity at the same time. The body can no longer be cooled by sweat.

[@martiansoon9092]

Also A/C is a heatengine. It adds more heat to local area. Having narrow streets with many A/C's means the local temperature spikes even higher during heatwaves. And when your grid finally fails, those whohave pledges to A/C are rapidly under deadly situation. Also when grid goes down, you won't get any water from tap, freezers goes down, ... This means the very support network around people vanishes. And then there is the climate emission spikes during heatwaves. Even most pollutive and emitting powersources are used. So not only emissions peak, but also harmful aerosols spikes in the heated neighborhood. A/C is a true killer in many sense. Avoid using it when possible. Cool your house with: opening windows during night, keep shutters on during days and open them during nights. Store enough fresh water, so you can survive sometime if power goes down. ... ... But the most important thing to do is: Stop burning any fossil fuels. Today. Stop your car. Change your electricity to renewables. Change your heating to heatpumps (ie. heating/cooling geothermal energy is nice, if possible). Vote only politicians who are going to shutdown all fossil fuel burners. Vote only politicians who are doing everything to limit climate change. Add more vegan days to your family diet. Talk about these issues with everyone you know. Stop buying stuff that you use only few times.

[@FacingFuture]

all great ideas, thanks for your comment!

[@antonyjh1234]

It depends what the people do as an alternative. If an air con is 600% efficient, as they use 1/6th of the energy that is emitted in cooling or heating because of the gas exchange in the heat pump/AC then staying home in air con can be better than going somewhere in a vehicle. Interesting you say A/C is a true killer then talk about people going to heat pumps as they are both he same thing, just different names.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

Sorry but adding a few vegan days to your diet isn’t going to stop the impending Climate Crisis LMAO. What a joke.

[@antonyjh1234]

I did not see the vegan days comment, as an ex vegan I would say veganism is the most destructive system that people can go towards and that all studies putting all the emissions onto the edible part from the half that is inedible so 100% of the emissions etc are just put onto just the meat or dairy is a false way of looking at the issue, otherwise the gelatine that holds together toilet paper for example is carbon free and of course that is false. Veganism is a lie as far as any environmental claims are concerned, considering all the sprays pesticides are put onto arable land only and 75% of the land doesn't get this but we get cattle and sheep from this eating meat daily has better environmental affects than a crop food replacement.

[@antonyjh1234]

As an ex vegan I would say veganism is the most destructive system that people can go towards and that all studies putting all the emissions onto the edible part from the half that is inedible so 100% of the emissions etc are just put onto just the meat or dairy is a false way of looking at the issue, otherwise the gelatine that holds together toilet paper for example is carbon free and of course that is false. Veganism is a lie as far as any environmental claims are concerned, considering all the sprays pesticides are put onto arable land only and 75% of the land doesn't get this but we get cattle and sheep from this eating meat daily has better environmental effects than a crop food replacement.

[@Gidget-b8s]

We need to stop cutting down so many trees and all do our small parts to help bring down greenhouse gas 🙏

[@davidwalker2942]

28:16 Is the climate manual available in English?

[@OjOrojo-ke7yr]

The conversation needs to change from prevention to adaptation. The prophesy is that two thirds of the population will die. Climate change and low fertility rates are the manifestation of this. War, famine, disease will follow. Economic collapse. So, teach young people how to survive without electricity. This change cannot be stopped. Chief, US Navy, retired.

[@steveshea6148]

2/3...at least.

[@douglascutler1037]

@@steveshea6148 There will also be technological adaptations. In what has been called one of the biggest eureka moments in recent science, MIT researchers have discovered a photoelectric pathway to evaporate water without heat! This will likely lead to much cheaper water desalination as well as highly energy efficient replacements for many industrial processes. Possibly even photoelectric clothes dryers that use much less energy. But prolific water desalination addresses best your own arguments. The secret lies somewhere in the green spectrum of light. People ask why is the sky blue but might also ask why are plants green. It may be because plants have evolved to reflect back the very wavelengths of light that evaporate water most efficiently thus to preserve their own moisture.

[@donniemoder1466]

Where do you see or hear about this prophesy?

[@douglascutler1037]

Prophesy is magical thinking. That is exactly what we DON"T need to tackle the climate crisis. We need scientific thinking. Magical thinking is for losers. But yes, we do need think about adapting. It won't be easy.

[@bartroberts1514]

Would be easier, and more on point, to teach young people how to thrive without fossil, while drawing down CO2. Orient on the right target, Chief.

[@PandoraJonesmodel]

Part of the problem is Koch Industries and the millions they put into the US political system. And im disgusted that KZbin keeps putting ads from Koch groups on videos like this. Americans for Prosperity for ex. Its awful .

[@aaronshields8135]

I think aggressive campaigns that put individual victims of climate forefront will help, you have to personalize it by putting the faces and names on the front of the campaigns, tailored to each culture. Our tribalism is too embedded, we cannot properly care about 1100 people dying in a heat wave but we get more empathy from people when its a face and identity from our own "tribe" , an individual with a story.

[@FacingFuture]

Thank you for your comment. How we identify as humans can be dualistic and divisive. Transcending "otherness" can be a more effective means for each of us to connect with those both near and distant.

[@wnklee6878]

Ignorance is strength.

[@javiertorres9114]

Very beautiful accent. I could listen to her talk about climate change all day

[@neomateo944]

Then you have global dimming/aerosol masking plus ozone destruction via ionizing radiation when the nuclear plants start to fail from lack of maintenance and resources... Love, peace and best of luck to everyone.

[@saladinallah5299]

We are the frogs in the gradual boiling water…daunting, sad & depressing. So live, love & laugh hard !

[@tctommie68]

Sadly enough people only respond and take action when another economic crisis is announced.

[@danieladaigle]

I agree with what was said. In fact, I’m sure it’s worse than it was presented. However, there was nothing mentioned about what can be done. Anything that comes to mind would have been great 50 years ago. Do you really think we will all go back to preindustrial lifestyles? And even if we did tomorrow, it’s probably too late. Give me concrete and realistic things that can be done.

[@tunneloflight]

Nope. Nothing now can stop it. That is the point of this video. The scientists know the truth. We are caput. All that is left is the grief and sadness of watching as it all ends.

[@egalitarianvegan8806]

We are facing predicaments. Not problems.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Can't scientists figure out Planned Obsolescence in durable consumer goods since the Laws of Physics do not change style every year? Doesn't unnecessary manufacturing due to Planned Obsolescence mean more CO2 production? Can scientists figure out that economists have been ignoring the depreciation of durable consumer goods since Sputnik?

[@Mike80528]

That isn't a science issue. Engineers know how to make things last. Corporations demand they don't.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@Mike80528 Scientists live on the planet. Planned Obsolescence ultimately affects everybody. Why isn't accounting/finance mandatory in for everyone? Don't scientists spend money?

[@Mike80528]

@@psikeyhackr6914 If you work for a company and they tell you to engineer a product with "x" specifications and you design it with "Y" specifications, do you think you'll have a job? Without a job, how do you pay for anything? Do you have ANY understanding of economics? Stop blaming the people and blame the system, especially corporations.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

@@Mike80528 Economic Power Games are how economics really works. Planned Obsolescence is part of the economic power game. So economists are liars for not talking about the depreciation of durable consumer goods. Accounting/finance should have been mandatory in high schools since Sputnik. If you want some people to be ignorant/stupid that is your business. *The Screwing of the Average* (1974) Man by David Hapgood

[@Mike80528]

@@psikeyhackr6914 You are not telling me anything new. I specifically mentioned capitalism, and especially corporate capitalism as the root. I could have said "people wanting cheaper goods" was the issue, but that would have been off the mark as people *needed* cheaper goods due to my prior reasons - capitalism and corporate greed. At least primarily. As with all things, it's complicated enough that people can find numerous other seemingly perfectly reasonable explanations for the causes.

[@patricialongo5870]

It's definitely not as simple as choosing to vote Green and making the best choices as a collective. That option is simply not available to us. That's for people who have leftist politics available to them.

[@irisstasinski8893]

Have you not noticed the ruthless destruction of the wholle Planets Nature ?

[@gamingtonight1526]

The pot on the hob is the world. The water inside getting hotter and hotter is the climate crisis, and the frogs in the nearly boiling water are humanity. We all know where it's heading!

[@tunneloflight]

Yep. In a fire that burns the house to the ground.

[@jonb4722]

Although the participants are charming and their conversation is very moving, I don't think they really addressed the issue of societal blindness to CC. This requires a different set of skills to climate science, in fact.

[@FacingFuture]

We can't cover everything in a short program. This one is a personal statement from a climate scientist.

[@bartroberts1514]

The blindness is manufactured, though. Shouldn't we be prosecuting those who have campaigned to blind us?

[@jonb4722]

@@FacingFuture Emoting is not going to solve the problem

[@olenagirich1884]

@@jonb4722 100

[@davide1913]

I think we need to focus on LAND not CO2, with support for national parks and nature reserves. If we keep CO2 low but lose all natural wild land, there will be no space for natural wild species. I believe we have focused way too much on CO2 and not enough on LAND.

[@rayalfini2269]

1.5*C has been surpassed in parts of the Globe. Houston, New Orleans both Fossil fuel Hells have increased their local. The Gulf Stream has ceased so big storms come ashore quickly.

[@NickDonnetelli]

What needs to happen is a wholesale transition to renewables like wind/solar, but also using electrolyzers off of renewables to produce hydrogen to run fuel cells for transportation to greatly reduce fossil fuel usage. Also need to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

[@sumiland6445]

Now individuals must prepare and hope we can find livable zones 🥺 sadly, the billionaires will beat us to it. They see people as pests that need to be abated.

[@stevemacgruther4051]

Have not seen a worm on the sidewalk during a rain storm in 20 years

[@FrankSears-t2q]

This was all entirely predictable from about 70 years ago when major petroleum companies funded scientific studies that revealed way back then what the eventual and inevitable effects of massive fossil fuel usage would be

[@JimmyD806]

Studies prove things? I always thought experiments proved things.

[@FrankSears-t2q]

@@JimmyD806 r u kidding? We’re seeing the “proof” now!!! What more do you need?!?!?!?!?!?

[@JimmyD806]

@@FrankSears-t2q I see proof that we're in an interglacial. I also see proof that we started a short-duration (500-year-long) warm period in 1850.

[@skypowergb3842]

i think its not that everyone is blind, its just that we cant do anyhting about it , and if you say renewables, batteries ... this is not good enough , renewables my be able to provide enough energy at times ,issue comes when there is no sun (even sun but not at 90degree towards solar panel) ,no wind, next problem batteries , all batteries we had made woudt be able to power city for a day(i think this is not correct statement but i thik i heard this once and even if it could power city for long this is just one city ) , not to mention where to get enough materials to make them , next transportation cost of going to EV-s and range , chargers for them , also if everyone switched to EV-s again that would increase energy demans and need for building more infrastructure to support demand , next how do you even make something , to melt stuff for production you need crazy huge temps , then agriculture , also going to electric (not sure fully) can make us vournable to solar weather (although not sure if this is exadurated only ,maybe we have systems to mitigate this) .and on top of that you have people oposing ("saving planet by destroying nature" ) or being ignorant and so on. i think we cant solve climate change , its easy to push on others or blame others but idk... but thats my perspective while i may be unaware of somehthing but since i have some basic knowledge in electronics i think many of these problems get ignored when talking about climate change