Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn
Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn
After hottest day ever, researchers say global heating may mean future of crop failures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans
Thank a conservative. They have fought very hard to stop normal people from fighting climate change.
At this point, if you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change. Conservatives will kill everyone on the planet if we do not aggressively stop them.
And they like to play it as if its over the top but its really fighting fascism. Conservatives 50 years ago are different from the nutters now who want dictatorial powers.
They're not really that different. Nationalists, racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, anti-semites... It's the same people. Conservatives. They have always been trash. They just had better PR for a while.
They are further along their trajectory now. They were always heading this direction, that much should have been obvious to a lot of people all along. I believe it was, but that the endless propaganda of the US media machine kept most of its population from realizing it. There are all sorts of (arguably) respectable political issues conservatives of the past focussed their words on, while their actions spoke different.
Some of them might even have believed they wanted 'small government' or 'fiscal responsibility'. But their actions were clear in intent, from racial segregation, to the Red Scare, to suppressing social movements, to implementing a politic of austerity. I only fail to mention war because their liberal 'opposition' carries roughly equal blame for the US war machine.
The people today may be different in body, action, word, but this is a continuation of a long political project that ended up in facism.
At this point I think we just need to face the fact that we're going to have to darken the skies with particulates in order to combat global warming.
There's just no way we're ever going to get corporations to stop killing us with greenhouse gasses.
It's not out of the question that we'll see that as a means of managing overshoot. It's a very high-risk approach: it means killing everything in the oceans with calcium-based hard body parts, and it means maintaining technical infrastructure for longer than civilizations last, which humans don't have a track record of doing.
Better to go to our extinction with at least a shred of decency than to last a bit longer and mess things up even more like that.
I think sciencing our way out of the mess our grandparents made for us is fair play.
While I don't really think it's wrong, I think there could be controversy that it might go wrong and we get really bad results. Heck, it was Snowpiercer's plot for the apocalypse, as soon we suggest doing something like that expect a bunch of references to that movie.
They don't know about my tendie stash in the freezer 😏