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Cloud423
Be here now, the only moment we have is now, and it is always the right time for positive change.
deeperthensubspace
ALovelyTime
There’s time while you’re alive! DO SOMETHING
DownUnderDanny
lon3wolf86
no there isn't... time to act is in the past now it's time run
VarlenSantongkum
Where?
jofo97
QuasiIntellectualChimpanzee
DrKonrad
"Tomorrow"
GirlScoutDropOut
DownUnderDanny
spiceass9000
Is this about climate change? Cause ya there is but boy it’s getting less and less by the day and companies show no effort to change
Writingpastwit
Happily, there are quite a few companies and investment groups (to the tune of $40 trillion+) who are putting enormous pressure 1/
Writingpastwit
on countries to go carbon neutral/negative. Good info found on carbonbrief.org. 2/2.
superclue
Like a marshmallow
sarkonas
Given how long it takes to actually bring about change and how deeply the cancer is embedded, not really.
sarkonas
We're one of the last generations to have it good, enjoy life while it lasts.
RicheTheBuddha
Thanks for the ray of hope, OP.
Hemelsblauw
METROlD
Is there a copy of this without the RTX logo?
getguds
ha ha ha because we're so fucked... oh god.
Br1337
Funny but a little too real
TheObstinateOne
Many uncomfortable chuckles were had this year.
AgentPothead
Lmao maybe 10 years ago.
jakexter
Yes vote for politicians that reduce regulations on clearing tinder and allow for controlled burns to prevent massive forest fires
AgamemnonsMemes
Nah, best not.
Turbolibros
igooutsidesometimes
Wurstinator
nope
yoshi
yes
Saturniidae
If we cleaned up our act in the next 10 yrs or so, most of the planet will still be inhabitable. If we continue our downward trend for
Saturniidae
> the next 20-40 years waiting for all the climate denier Boomers to relinquish their power, we might only have tiny parts of the planet>
Saturniidae
>that could support human life within a few generations. We'd be perilously close to extinction and die agonizing deaths.
chinaPieCreator
There are lots of climate deniers who aren’t Boomers, if you read your history we were the ones who said this in the first place
jazzwicket
I really worry that defeatism is a bigger threat that denial at the moment. Climate change is going to make things really rough but it...
jazzwicket
contains no inherent mechanism for human extinction. It's not a cliff we can fall over. What it will do is gradually displace millions of...
jazzwicket
...us and lead to shortages, disasters and conflict. Every action we take now and in the future lessens the extent of that suffering.
LordNergal
We have no solutions that can be implemented in time to have an impact. And all data from models of implementing alternative energy in a 1/
LordNergal
realistic timeframe show it having the same impact as doing nothing at all just due to how slow that is. Plus, anywhere from 2030 to 2050 2/
LordNergal
we're likely to end up in a world war over the dwindling drinking water supplies, which will completely undo any progress made up to that 3/
WilliamElse
This is deifinitely not the time to give up. Emissions are peaking (albeit later than would be ideal), green tech is surging and public...
WilliamElse
...awareness is putting pressure on governments and corporations to go carbon neutral. There's no such thing as "too late" because...
WilliamElse
...climate change is a gradual slope of intensifying effects, not a sudden apocalyptic event, but we do need to be addressing it faster...
WilliamElse
...and harder than we currently are if we want to avoid a great deal of future suffering.
dyxj
Mostly agree, except for "gradual slope". That implies linear, and it's not. It's at least polynomial, meaning things do get faster as 1/
dyxj
Change progresses, and there may be well be an inflection point that we've already missed. However, even if we have missed it, we mustn't 2/
stronomer
The best time for action was 20 years ago, the 2nd best one is now. This is not a "either-or" situation, but the climatecrisis will 1/2
stronomer
get worse the later we act. It will get worse and worse. 2020 will be one of the coldest years of the next centuries! 2/2
jazzwicket
Exactly. People sometimes talk as if climate change is a cliff that we either fall over or avoid. It really isn't - it's a gradual slope and
jazzwicket
we can always take actions to lessen the extent of future suffering. The quicker we do it, the better, of course.
stronomer
Specifically since there are "tipping points" that represent much steeper slopes. We don't want to get to those.
jazzwicket
Absolutely. Those are not always quite as apocalyptic as the headlines like to make out but they're still scary enough for anyone who...
Talligan
Earth scientist here, I've pretty much given up hope. Its all fucked, we're fucked.
Writingpastwit
If you are living with despair, Peter Kalmus, Katharine Hayhoe, Michael E. Mann (climate scientists) helped me. Yes, it's so, so dire /1
Writingpastwit
but there is still room to work. Millions (even billions) will die, but it is worth it to keep working toward a better world. 2/2
jazzwicket
Second this. When I first became aware of the extent of the problem over a decade ago (working alongside climate scientists), I really...
jazzwicket
...didn't ever expect we'd make the progress we have on addressing it by this point in time. I thought it was impossible to turn it...
jazzwicket
...around, utterly impossible. But coal use has peaked and emissions are peaking too, we are FAR too slow but we are beginning to bend...
Lakeylake
I don't know how to feel about this.
QuasiIntellectualChimpanzee
Hope. Feel some hope and determination to try.
Writingpastwit
Wanted to add: Hope isn't optimism. Optimism has its feet up and a smile on its face. Hope has its sleeves rolled up and its face is dirty.
Cryolith
No there isn't, really. No country is meeting any of the benchmarks needed. There's no political or social will to do the hard things.
WilliamElse
Nobody is meeting them as quickly as we would like but public awareness is beginning to translate into political and corporate will. We...
WilliamElse
...are moving away from the old "business-as-usual" models and emissions aren't now likely to keep growing. Of course, there is still a...
WilliamElse
...lot of work to do and we've already locked in lot of negative impacts.
Sehorjuliemichels
For usa system may be, for the world future may be not
FoamingToad
The world will be fine. Humanity's place upon it may be at risk, but the universe won't even notice if we perish.
PectorialMuscles
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination. Trying matters even if it amounts to 0. Brando Sando has it right.
Blud4BludGod
We are definitely still at a threshhold where humanity can survive. The percentage of us that are going to survive is going down though.
Sehorjuliemichels
Depend of your income i guess
QuasiIntellectualChimpanzee
Oh, well, we should definitely stop trying then
Sehorjuliemichels
Unlikely doesn't mean impossible.
HappyEngineer
Rage. Rage against the dying of the light.
SFuhr
Plot to Wall-E is becoming prophetic.
chinaPieCreator
Why has the future of the World got anything to do with America?
Sehorjuliemichels
Bc the meme could be about both. Usa and the world are burning
Hlast
It's large and powerful enough to have significant environmental impact and to be able to bring more in other nations if it wanted to
Delta2279
KeepYourDickInAVice
Vote Nixon
RedClaws23
Already did
BobaFettApproves
Ya voting yet!?
SunBrolem
I hate to be the one to do this, but... Voting won't work until we get money out of politics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE&
m4ttschneider
Yes, the corrupt warmonger will surely save us from the corrupt warmonger
Tak231
At the moment its not the warmongering that's the issue. Its the blind eye towards Nazis that needs handled
WSilvermane
And the sheer, unbelievable, in your face, total and complete incompetence.
Tak231
Yea but we've had complete incompetence before.
rmmmm
Only voting is not enough. Vote and keep the pressure, otherwise others will take care of their interests before you.
TanithRosenbaum
This. It’s probably gonna take a few election cycles until all the scumbags are out. It’s a long war, but there is no alternative.
JokePlayer
True, I view it as a seige against corruption. It just helps with that long view.
SunBrolem
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Delta2279
Gritty 2024!
ohdearohdearohdeer
Nah, enjoy the time you have left, because things are gonna keep getting bad. Check out r/collapse on Reddit.
jazzwicket
No, please don't check out reddit. Check out the actual IPCC reports, the recent WMO paper, the wealth of increasingly accurate...
jazzwicket
...science. Climate change will multiply a host of threats including shortages, natural disaster, conflict and mass migration but it's a...
jazzwicket
...slope, not a sudden cliff, and we have clear pathways to lessen future impacts. Every action we take now will count in the future.
Cryolith
We have always had a clear pathway. For decades we've known exactly the steps to take to mitigate it. There's no will to do any of it.
jazzwicket
We're far later than ideal but we are beginning to make those steps. For example, the highest emissions pathway of the IPCC (RCP8.5) has...