Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - Sensationalist Headlines

Just live your lives to the fullest. We all know the future cannot be saved, might as well make the best of the present.

Kharak is Burning, except this time it's our turn. And we won't be able to blame it on some asshole fleet of warships either.

Anyone still supporting Trump and his goons is supporting the destruction of this planet, it's fucking disgusting.

Better start leaving behind some goodies for the future alien archeologists to dig up because we are definitely not going to continue existing on this planet. We are far too entrenched in our habits to change now.

Cigarette butts and plastic straws will do just fine.

Sooo.. anyone wanna start saving up for a V8 Interceptor and cool leather jackets with me for when the apocalypse comes?

https://www.theonion.com/sighing-resigned-climate-scientists-say-to-just-enjoy-1823265249

This is terrible. Hopefully now climate change will get more acknowledgement around the globe and perhaps a bigger political interest combined with scientific progress will save us.

A single self-absorbed billionaire with a cult following isn't, and can't be, the singular hope for all of humanity.

Thanks boomers!

The article talks about events since 40 years ago. Nearly 40 years and we have not made progress. What the fuck is wrong with this world?

I refuse to punch out because of a warm ball. We're going to drag our industry kicking and crying into a future where those who will inherit the planet from us won't have to suffer the consequences of our greedier predecessors. Or rather, we can start us down the road where the earth will recover, and the inevitable consequences can be minimized.

Greed.

which superpower will collapse first?

well we're fucked then

the sad thing is this might as well be real

We most likely won't, not overnight anyways, but most of us will probably wish we'd just die

If this is our definite future, that'll be impossible for me. I apologize in advance. I have a bad habit of venting my frustration in threads like this, but I have no one to talk to about this kind of stuff and no consolation. Many times I would lose sleep, I've shouted and cried when no one was around, and I would think that existence is bullshit, now I'm kinda blank. I don't want to bring anyone down with me, but I don't know what to do anymore.

The one least reliant on external sources of food, water and other necesseties?

No torment is long or harsh enough for the people who could have stopped this but didn't.

Honestly it's fucking horrifying to see mainstream science point to the fact that we very well could be the last generation of our contemporary world, barring unforeseeable developments. Why does it have to be like this?

Yeah well I kind of can't live my life to the fullest since the same fuckers responsible for this crap are also responsible for making massive wealth gaps too.

How does that saying go again? Strong people create good times, good times create weak people, weak people create bad times, bad times create strong people? Are we in the bad times right now/soon? At least we'll be strong if that's the case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That saying is kinda ridiculous. It's silly to say that bad times make good progress and vice versa

It's not necessarily about progress, but about shaping people to have the fortitude to carry on in tough times.

Fuck trump, fuck his cronies, fuck the republicans, fuck everyone that gave them power, fuck every turkey-necked baby boomer pile of shit still alive and everyone else that denies all of this.

I dunno if anyone read the last paragraphs of the article, but this is far from hopeless. Giving in to Doomsday predictions and peril helps no one. I'm not sure about about you guys, but I intend going down swinging.

Outside of forums, I never hear anybody really discuss climate change and I'm guilty too. Who wants to discuss with other people how doomed we are when you're not able to propose any immediate solutions. Same reason why I never hear anyone discussing politics either. I mean outside of voting for better representatives, what can society peacefully do to enact the change needed to try and combat this? What really needs to happen is more millennial's need to get engaged and start voting to counteract the wave of stupidity by just voting reliably in every election.

I honestly believe that it actually is the great filter for the majority of alien civilizations. It takes a fairly specific set of skills and body functions to invent electricity (and by extension, AI, nanotechnology and nuclear), so it's likely that there were a ton of dieselpunk alien planets in the past that choked themselves to death in smog because they never invented a way to successfully leave their planet or keep it clean. This just makes humanity's plight all the more gruesome, because realistically, we have all the recipe for still being able to salvage this planet even now, and the only things stopping us are apathy and greed by the highest of classes for short-term gain. Eventually, humanity will need to make far more extreme decisions if it does not significantly change it's ways within our lifetime.

This is the thanks they deserve: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/M16a1m16a2m4m16a45wi.jpg Sooner the shitheads in government and corpotations blatantly denying or outright selling out the environment for a profit get targeted than the general public. Same for the fucking Indians and Chinese too who are enabling the same levels of pollution.