Meanwhile I have to still work in this heat. Which I’m doing right now, and not on my phone.
Nature speaks first. Point made
Yeah the billionaires don’t care. We need to address that problem first
People in Europe are in a very bad spot because they’ve never really invested in cooling systems because they didn’t have to. It’s going to take a massive effort to address.
It’s even more complicated than that. Firstly Europe is a bit very big place, it’s comparable to the size of United States but with much more temperature fluctuation because it’s slightly further north as a unit.
At least for a lot of countries in Northern Europe the UK Germany Poland etc our houses aren’t built to be air conditioned, we don’t have air ducts, and we don’t have the slidy windows that are in US buildings so we couldn’t install window units. So even if I can find an engineer who knew how to install an air conditioning unit there wouldn’t be a lot of point anyway. Going forward houses are going to have to be re-engineered so that they can support air conditioning, I have no idea what we’re going to do with all the old stock.
One of the people I follow posted about something similar on Mastodon yesterday. They happened to be on the same plane as someone who was speaking at a climate conference they were attending, and they saw the person through gap in the seat working on their remarks and using ChatGPT in order to do it.
Sad stuff.
i do have to point out, the plane trip itself was far worse, climate wise, than the vibe writing.
That said, yes I agree, it is of course an extra load, that could be easily avoided.
It’s too late to do anything about the extreme heat. But I guess it was worth it
It’s too late to do anything about the extreme heat already here plus a bit more, but we can prevent it from getting MUCH WORSE!
Don’t worry, once the ocean currents collapse we’ll get a nice cooling ice age in the higher latitudes!
Probably. Although there’s actually at least a few climate models out there that suggest that things would just start heating up. Because the high temperatures would melt the ice caps.
we can prevent it from getting MUCH WORSE!
Just make sure to wear gloves and a mask, park way the fuck off site, and leave your phone at home.
Exactly
Population statistics says otherwise. It appears we cannot.
For some reason
Shareholder profits largely. Won’t someone think of the shareholders!?
I think about shareholders all the time
If only humanity was aware of their effects on the environment sooner.
It is odd how we have science, the most unreasonably successful mental constructs of mankind ever and we perpetually ignore it like if we plug our ears enough the information it finds we dislike will just go away. It’s a bit like a child cleaning their room by closing their eyes so they don’t see the mess.
We’ve been aware that we negatively affect the environment since at least the 1800s.
But money and power is more important than the environment we need to produce said money and power as well as survive. This will be the second time an organism has caused a mass extinction but the first time the organism self proclaimed that it was intelligent.
I come back to Taoism, that is suffering becomes possible when one becomes separate from the Tao aka the way things are, aka the truth. Like if I lie that I can fly unassisted and jump off a building then I have removed myself from truth and when I go to test this I will experience suffering. Humanity has separated itself from truth for a long time and now the bill is coming due.
Homo Sapiens have existed for around 300,000 years. The earliest know use of currency was around 30,000 years ago. Assuming, when you say ‘power’, you mean mechanically created energy ie steam power, or electrical power, the first know use of steam power was about 2050 years ago.
So, as humans managed to exist for 270,000 years without money or power, I would say the environment is probably the most important factor.
So, as humans managed to exist for 270,000 years without money or power, I would say the environment is probably the most important factor.
Not 8 billion humans though.
More so political power as money alone does nothing. There’s always been that type of power and money is a representation of value and there’s always been value and power so long as there’s been minds. The first organisms to cause a mass extinction was photosynthesizing microorganisms. They poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen and nearly killed everything, including themselves. Of course they didn’t do so for money or power or really out of any will but they are the first organisms to cause a mass extinction.
the problems don’t exist if i don’t think of them
That title is the definition of laughing to avoid crying.
Also because I need water to sweat, can’t afford tears rn.
