Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.
We are so unbelievably fucked it’s not even funny anymore.
Glad to be child free, can’t imagine bringing a child into this world…
I’m terrified for my kiddo. We’ve done all we can over the past 10 years. Went plant based, got our winter heating off oil, ride electric bikes, all my lawn tools are electric, bought an EV. I’m running out of ideas.
Spoiler alert: your individual choices don’t matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.
So… We’re fucked.
Every bit helps. I can’t tell others to make changes if I don’t do it myself.
Sure you can. We don’t need to be martyrs to demand system-wide change
I’ve done this for 3 decades…. Shit has only got worse
This is way beyond being fixed at individual levels
Compared to the amount of emissions China is putting out you can’t really make a difference with those changes.
You may find this article helpful in why it still matters:
“My country’s emissions are so negligible, it doesn’t matter what we do. It won’t make a difference”. It’s true: the emissions of many countries in the world are completely dwarfed by a few big players. We see this in the chart below. But there are several reasons why rich countries with ‘negligible’ emissions need to step up to the challenge. What they do does matter.
https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/small-emitters
Individual actions, while inconsequential, can help signal the market ( eg demand for ev infrastructure) and can add up when combined with federal regulations.
For the sake of my kid I’m willing to do anything.
Fucking THIS. It’s the main reason I don’t want kids. I know they’d likely live a life of agony, and I don’t want THEM to have kids, because my grandchildren would be even more fucked.
When exactly was it funny?
As much as this message may be urgent, this is not the right sub for it. There’s no technology angle to the article.
Don’t you know? Everything from Ars is technology /s
Community* not sub
@halki
@PopBobert There is always technology to the rescue! … But I agree.
Technology?
Fire…
For the past couple of years it’s been a lot of news of “Hottest Day Ever” to which my favorite response has always been a slightly cheeky “So far!”, but I’ve realized with the recent coverage of large swaths of the US reaching deadly wet bulb temps that that’s going to change. The headlines won’t be for the hottest day, they’ll be for the highest death count, and nobody will say the second part but we’ll all be thinking it.
And yet, we still won’t catch public transport, stop having kids, and go vegan. humans don’t have a clue
Florida has been ungodly hot lately. Into the 90s daily.
