Just imagine all the frozen, million year old viruses that are about to come back with a vengeance
Start building arcologies and colony spaceships now. We're on the uphill climb on the roller coaster; it's a slow build, but we're going to hit a tipping point and shit's going to happen fast.
The Arctic was above freezing this winter, and it's melting. Antarctica is starting to melt and turning green. Water absorbs solar heat that would be reflected back by ice, accelerating the melting and increasing the rate of sea level rise. The Great Barrier Reef is half-dead already.
We should have been taking drastic steps to radically reshape global practices in the 90s, and now it's largely too late even if we stop now.
What a beautiful remarkably unique looking landscape, terribly sorry to hear that this bullshit is happening. But on the bright side we are not worse than the Pre-Cambrian extinction right guys? High five! We are better than an event that wiped out 90% of life on Earth!
They'll be for rich people only. Heck they might get blown up by terrorists or some general mad they didn't get a ticket.
All the plans for fighting climate change I've ever seen have required massive global changes in behavioral patterns and national policies.
Anyone who ever thought that would happen is a fool.
Fighting it has failed. We need plans to survive climate change.
(And don't even think about colony spaceships. Earth under worst-case total environmental collapse is still more survivable than fucking space.)
I hope the cars and vapid memes were worth it.
Bring on the New Cretaceous
Looks like humans will have to dome up and move to the new arctic farmlands to survive in 200 years, unless all vegetation is killed from the rapid climate shift by then in which case I guess we’ll just fucking die
Earth will always be more hospitable than the alien environments no matter how much we fuck it up.
However, if the climate damage was ever bad enough that we had to abandon Earth, before the first ship leaves, we should round up all the politicians and executives responsible and have an execution so fantastic it would make the Aztecs blush. Something so henious and amazing that it spawns stories, words and definitions that will never be forgotten in the oral histories of the human galactic diaspora, such that even the utterance of it in a debate thousands of years down the line and thousands of light years later will make people agree that, yeah, we should ban plastic straws.
Yay, the planet's fucked, woo!
There's still time to fix it, we can all set the example to do this.
I'd like to be optimistic like yourself, but that's just not how I think about this whole thing sadly, we might balance out and not cause any further damage, but I don't see myself being around when it gets better, due to age of course, to be more direct about that, I mean I don't think it's going to improve in say, the next 60 years or so, I have my doubts, I know 60 years is a long time but fucking shit up is faster than fixing it.
We gotta stay optimistic man. I agree with you, it will probably be a long time before we start to turn things around, but we need to start now at an individual level. Obviously reducing, or better yet, eliminating meat from our diets is the best and cheapest thing anyone can do. Then there's reducing our own waste, and there's alao greener energy and cars which is also great, but unfortunately still too unaffordable for the most of us to utilise. But we still have options which are free and great for the environment and we can do it.
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