2y ago

Heat is making Earth uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?

www.salon.com

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3153498

The study is this one

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2y ago

Heat is making Earth uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?

www.salon.com /2023/10/16/heat-is-making-our-planet-uninhabitable-why-isnt-this-the-top-news-story-around-the-world/

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Capitalism. Because money is more important than life.
- Would you be willing to take minimum wage pay for the rest of your life if it meant you would save the earth a fraction of a percent?
  
  If conservatives would get out of the way and actually allow a true minimum wage vs the punative wage they enforce now, there would be no shame in a minimum wage lifestyle whatsoever. Many, many people do not have ambitions beyond living a reasonably small life, in a small home, with an average family and a handful of friends, taking the occasional vacation, retiring, and dying someplace familiar. Some say it's sad, others say it's human nature, either way it's a reality people need to reckon with; because that's what a lot of people picture when they say "there's more to life than chasing money".
  
  Are you seriously saying that you wouldn’t consider taking a pay cut to save the world?
  Truly what the fuck is wrong with you, you fucking asshole moron
  
  Gladly. But I’m keeping my ‘effing bidet.
  
  No, you are right. I wouldn't subject myself to more suffering to save the human race. This is only because I know the choice of extreme poverty versus destroying the environment is only relevant because a person, you, decided these were the only two choices possible. To explain differently when we all decide we'd rather just end civilization as we know it than changing the status quo, as an individual I'm just along for the ride.
  
  Yes.
- We've looked at the data. It looks grim and concluded that it costs too much to avoid extinction.
- Not that Soviet Union, Eastern European socialist states, China etc have been great for the environment.
  
  That’s not true, but I don’t care to refute a talking point from 1991. Google it .
Maybe so that people don't just die of existential despair?
It is very depressing to see our planet go to hell.
I feel like we’re reminded every day on here, it gets tiring to a point we don’t pay attention anymore.
People don't usually care to read the same thing over and over again for decades like that
- Well they won't have to read about it for too much longer,, they'll be dying of heat, starvation, and skin cancer
  
  Until then
Because news is sales, and this doesn't sell. In fact, it will likely hurt sales. And almost everyone can't do anything meaninful about it on an individual, immediate level. So it's hard to think about and hard to act on.
Bad for business, hard to digest = out of scope for corporate or government media.
- Well, there is a really simple, meaningful thing we could do:
  We could all go vegan.
  If we stop paying for these products we'd solve 25% of the climate catastrophe tomorrow. But you don't want to. The rich, smart, educated people in the west won't even give up cheese to save their childrem from collaps.
  
  We could all go vegan.
  do you have a plan to make that happen?
As usual the mainstream journalists don't understand what the paper is about and produce hysterical headlines.
If you read the paper it does in no way say the earth is going to be uninhabitable. It does say that they have modelled which bits of the earth will become less habitable and they are areas of high population density, and also that the risk is reduced sognificant of climate change is limited to 2 degrees. That's starkly different from the headline.
That is also without any critical appraisal of the paper. My first thoughts are how accurate is transfering static lab based measures of habitability to dynamic open environments?
This research is mildly interesting but like most research frankly it is of limited scope and utility, and unfortunately a great deal of research is actually unreproducible dross.
On top of that a lot of journalism is unthinking dross. This makes a good headline to feed the beast that is the internet but it does not reflect the reality of the climate crisis.
It's in the news every day. What are you on about?
- The same news that is obsessed with Donald Trump 24/7?
  I just don't understand why people aren't taking climate change seriously?/s
because we know
We can't cost the shareholders.
Not good for profits, so it's swept under the rug while we deal with the bloated cheeto craziness as a diversion for something else even shittier happening.
The problem is we know but we are still making it worse! Capitalism has proven it can't fix this situation only speed it up!
Be cause there is still enough plausibility of denial, for now…
Where are the other bones ? The skeleton?
Because it's not new(s). badumtiss.jpg

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