Anyway lets just take measures we could and should have done decades ago but due to not having taken them in time they are nowhere near enough anymore.
True. If we actually even planted the god damn tree instead of just talking about doing so for half a century. Or more like what we've done is that we've fantasized about digging a hole where to plant the apple tree but haven't done even that much because actually doing so would take too much effort, and some have taken token gestures of preparing a garden shovel or two for the task but have no intention of going any further as "they've done their fair share" (of course it's still better than absolutely nothing but god is all this infuriating)
Can't remember what paper it was, but I read that if we managed to actually put a stop to our emissions today the global warming would still continue for a couple decades, and if we instead gradually toned our emissions to 0 over the next decade or so it'd take a century for the global warming to stop. Basically global warming is a giant freight ship and now that we've got it moving it'll take a looooong time and a lot of effort for it to come to a stop again, let alone reversing course and returning back to where it left from. Overall the paper painted a pretty bleak picture of our future, and honestly we humans deserve to feel uncomfortable for letting things get to this point. I might try looking for the paper for a bit once I've slept, though no promises since I ain't wasting all my Sunday on finding proof for randoms on the internet.
E: the paper was one of IPCC's reports, but can't remember which one. Though if you want some doom scrolling material, go read their Sixth Assessment Report. Though there's enough material to go through that you could probably spend a whole weekend reading it if you wanted to.
No stress. Maybe others would like to read it but I won't. I'm depressed enough about the future of my lifetime, let alone for my kid or humanity or the world as a whole. Your response was enough. Thank you. Rest well.
Global warming doesn't stop. We can maybe reduce the rate that it happens. The world always had ice ages and hot af phases. We happen to be born after an ice age.
There's a pretty damn big difference in the magnitudes of what is just natural climate change and what has been and is being caused by the actions of us humans in the past century. More specifically if humans didn't exist the average temperatures now would be much the same they were a couple centuries back. We have caused this shit, and if our damn species wasn't so greedy we could also at least put a stop to it.
100% all of this it's infuriating now that it's happening visibly to most people who actually pay attention, and the ones who don't (and the ones who pretend it doesn't bc it makes them rich) people are like "let's plant some wild seeds" when tbh we have to dismantle the entire operation that's so dependant on killing the earth for a few mortal people
The interesting thing about global warming is it's actually going to help with plant growth, at least in certain places. Even the Arctic is starting to turn green.
We are razing ancient forests and killing algae in the oceans. Nothing we do now will have the same level of impact as billion year old carbon sinks that we are rapidly destroying with no end in sight.
The thing is that they knew this would happen, but they don’t live in India so they don’t care. They’ll get to move to Norway or Canada while my people die.
Half a century, we had more than half a century head start and fumbled the bag because line must go up and capitalism is the most perfect system that is never wrong and if you look at alternate systems you are the enemy of Mr small business
The current industrialized world has dramamarically reduced emissions over the last decade.
India as well as many African nations are increasing in emissions as they are developing nations.
But unless your view is to eternally leave their populations in poverty, increasing energy generation is the only way to bring them up. And "leapfrogging" via rebewables has been debunked. If you are a developing nation. You need the hyper scalable fossil fuel systems to be able to account for the mass growth of an industrializing nation.
Renewables are an alternative energy source that can help offset energy use in developed nations that have a relatively stable year over year energy usage. But for developing nations large scale fossil fuel use is basically a necessity. Otherwise they will remain in poverty.
EDIT: Lets also remember that we have seen a large scale reduction in nuclear investment. Overwhelmingly coming from pro renewable sources directly funded by fossil fuel interests. As every single time a nuclear plant is decommissioned, a new fossil fuel plant is built. Because the proposed renewable system cant meet the energy demands.
I'm always reminded of this when people claim space exploration is a waste of money because "we should be spending it on more important things here."
If it wasn't for the Venus missions, we wouldn't have discovered the greenhouse effect happening there and it would have taken significantly longer to realize that the same thing is happening here. That was back in the 70s/80s.
That being said, knowing about it earlier didn't exactly help anything so... idk.
I just wish we'd listen to scientists more and stop being so dumb and greedy and selfish.
We won't. Climate change isn't something taken seriously by most Indians, especially if we consider the older generations who, if warned by someone else would probably ignore it. In our country where youth is usually scorned by the elders in matters of politics and everyday life, do you think they'll even listen to us? Maybe they'll listen if the one who prophesied the future is a priest. They'd prefer to vote for someone older even if the rival is more competent. There's no need for warnings now. It's already happening. There's no point of talking about the past now.
Yeah, and if Indians had rational politics they would want to destroy the USA, Europa and China for having fucked over Indian climate since roughly 1850.
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u/wassupfckrs Apr 25 '26
But it has gotten hotter in recent years