• Juan@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 年前

    And just a week ago I was talking to these boomers that were explaining me how “we should all stop being so attached to climate fear” and that “everything will just sort itself out and we’ll live just fine”.

    Yea, no shit boomer

    • scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      2 年前

      They meant that they’ll live just fine. You see, they will be dead before climate change decimates our planet. 🤷‍♂️

      • BeeOneTwoThree@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 年前

        It won’t decimate the planet, but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

        So yes depending on where they live they will be just fine, but a lot of people will die. Because of this there will be huge migrations and struggels with having enough resources…

        • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 年前

          And that is already happening in a small scale. All those natural disasters that are happening all over the world. And especially the poorer country’s on the south half of the globe are struggling with stuff like wood fires, smaller harvests because of the heat. And it’s all just going to get worse. I hate humanity.

        • pchem@feddit.de
          1·
          2 年前

          but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

          And, unfortunately, for a wide range of other species.

    • Nilz@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 年前

      Boomers: “We had hot days in the 60’s and 70’s as well and you didn’t hear us complain”

      • Obsession@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 年前

        My parents’ go-to is that everyone was freaking out about an incoming ice age in the 60s (they weren’t), and thus climate experts are all completely clueless and have no clue what they’re talking about.

        And they wonder why I visit less than before.

    • bric@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 年前

      This. It’s also not accurate to say it’s the warmest we’ve been in the past 10,000 years, it was likely warmer during the roman warm period, and potentially a couple of other points. So we can only really say it’s the warmest we’ve seen in the last couple hundred years.

      That’s not to say this isn’t concerning, we’re on track to smash the roman warm periods average temperatures within our lifetimes and make the earth the hottest it’s been since the paleoscene, which would have massive ramifications. But we’re not there yet, the problem is that we will likely get there in the next few decades.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
    1·
    2 年前

    Don’t just single out meat. All of industrialized agriculture is massively carbon and energy intensive and built on gradual topsoil depletion.

  • ThoranTW@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 年前

    I think, as individuals; we all need to pick up our game and do our part in polluting and destroying the planet more. We can’t let the corporations do all the heavy lifting after all.

    Edit: I don’t think I came across properly here, given the replies. This was sarcasm saying we need to fuck up the planet more to keep pace with the rate the corporations do.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
      0·
      2 年前

      Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations’ 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I’m doing my 0.0000001% part!

      • exi@feddit.de
        1·
        2 年前

        You know corporations build shit people buy, right? It’s not like they pollute for the fun of it. They pollute because we give them money to do it…

    • Zippy@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 年前

      Honestly corporations are only producing what consume. We are using corporations as scapegoats. If we don’t realize this soon and don’t change it ways…

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
        19·
        2 年前

        If you haven’t seen it, The Good Place is a great show and they discuss this basically. Should we be responsible for tracking the output of every company before we buy any product?

        (The answer is: of course not. We don’t have enough time in the world for that. The correct solution is regulation and taxing for negative externalities during the production process. If the cost of negative externalities is built into the cost of the product, then it will be less benificial to purchase a product with a dirty supply chain.)

  • Nonimouse@feddit.uk
    1·
    2 年前

    The company I work for makes power infrastructure for data centres and the like, 3 phase 400v conductors, the smallest we make is 1000 amp rated and we go up to 6000 amp rated, that is a hell of a lot of power and we run 24 hours a day 7 days a week pumping out miles of these to power the data centres that run the internet so we can be shitty to each other

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 年前

    Surprised by the casual climate change deniers in here. “Oh, but the data….”

    • philm@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      They emit a lot, but they transport … a very lot. Trucks are higher emitters per comodity.

      Still both should be powered by something else like hydrogen (more interesting for ships I guess) or batteries…

      And cruise ships should be IMHO taxed so high (the tax should probably directly go to countermeasures), such that only very rich people are able to (not that I grant them the fun, but they should finance this climate disaster in every possible way…)

    • bdiddy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      06·
      2 年前

      shipping is also trucks dude… and all the other nasty ways we move products around the world…

  • TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 年前

    Thanks humanity, I’m sure that this will cause no long term issues and we can just keep using the same economic and political systems while not worrying about it at all.