Around half of the population STILL doesn’t think Climate Change is going to personally effect them.
For those who are five to twenty five, “GenZ”, the Climate Crisis is going to be the rest of their lives. Their “best years”, when the world wasn’t dying, are already behind them. Ahead lies only the ruin that will be the rest of their lives.
BEST CASE — MAINSTREAM 543ppmCO2e — Right Now, here today.
WORST CASE — ALARMIST and PALEOCLIMATE FINDINGS 616.2ppmCO2e — Right Now, here today.
2XCO2 has effectively been breached. Mostly due to changes in the albedo, mostly due to “cloud diminishment”.
This means 4c btw. It’s fucking over. The “best years” most of which I can barely remember because I was busy getting disfigured from puberty. Life is such dogshit
i used to be deeply misanthropic about this whole situation but have in the not so distant past managed to rearrange those feelings.
i love xiaohongshu’s posts around here because they contextualize and ground my hope that China emerges as a beacon of development for what we are facing. i am by no means a techno-optimist however (i am clinically pessimistic) but the only way out is through.
i mean ideally we do some kind of green de-growth but that requires a global alignment that i do not see as realistic, which makes me doom because can we really escape this if we’re all just competing states collectively increasing global GDP for the sake of line go up?
anyway everything is so utterly fucked but after years i think i have finally fallen through what i thought was the bottom to find myself suspended in so goo in a formless void
this ted talk was sponsored by agro-ecology and your local coalition of antifa soil builders
Welp, in the meantime I can still go outside and not be burned or cough from intense air pollution, might as well live and fight for ecosocialism… ugh. Really hope China like invades the U.S. and forces socialism on it lol
We’re only dealing with the extra warming from the carbon output 90s and 00s right now and even if we stop, right now, there’s another 20 years of warming to go.
The situation is dire and the future is bleak but the capacity for people to survive, mitigate, adapt is still there. There are things that can be done now, not just long shots that are still feasible like BECCS. We haven’t redirected the awesome productive ability of the industrialized global world towards this because we don’t have power and the people who have power to direct production have their hands increasingly off the controls and the hands of Capitalism itself is more or less minding the proverbial till. In the face of this naked Capitalism transubstantianing the world into an increasingly literal hellscape - we can win this fight, we must win this fight and we will win this fight.
it’s capitalism or our species at this point, because if this neoliberal global industrial autonomous slaughterhouse factory doesn’t get rearranged into a different mode of production the biosphere will become FUBAR
Yeah humanity will survive. Its the form it will survive in that is bleak. There are things worse than death . these kids deserve better
There it is again, that funny feeling
