| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change 11:10 - Mar 29 with 784 views | DanTheMan |
https://www.ft.com/content/fff530b6-1ab2-41fa-b981-4fe851eb5dc8
This will be another one of those things where if we invested the money now, we'd be much better off financially than struggling to deal with it when the impacts really start to hit later down the line. All well and good building a few offshore wind farms but it's not really going to help when the weather starts getting more and more extreme. |  |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:25 - Mar 29 with 727 views | Herbivore |
It'll help if it gets windier?
Seriously though, we've totally fooked it. I've given up hope of humanity saving itself, I just hope we don't drag all of the other life on Earth down with us. Would be nice to think that once we're wiped out all of the flora and fauna we've spent centuries destroying might have a chance of flourishing again. |  |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:26 - Mar 29 with 727 views | J2BLUE |
They aren't going to bother.
We could be doing so many things.
I'm convinced they believe some sort of new technology will save us. I'm starting to think that is our only hope as well.
I'm sure the richest will be just fine. As for the plebs, who cares? |  |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:32 - Mar 29 with 714 views | DanTheMan |
| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:25 - Mar 29 by Herbivore |
It'll help if it gets windier?
Seriously though, we've totally fooked it. I've given up hope of humanity saving itself, I just hope we don't drag all of the other life on Earth down with us. Would be nice to think that once we're wiped out all of the flora and fauna we've spent centuries destroying might have a chance of flourishing again. |
I imagine the only way we'd truly feck things up for a bit would be nuclear war as resources get scarce. Otherwise, life has dealt with climate shifts before, even with mass extinction events.
Of course, none of it would be at all pleasant. | |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:34 - Mar 29 with 709 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
It’s not (to the full extent) happening on their election cycle, so it’s someone else’s problem. Same reason we haven’t got a decent nuclear energy baseline. Kick the can down the road until it’s too late. |  | | |
| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:45 - Mar 29 with 685 views | DanTheMan |
| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:34 - Mar 29 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
It’s not (to the full extent) happening on their election cycle, so it’s someone else’s problem. Same reason we haven’t got a decent nuclear energy baseline. Kick the can down the road until it’s too late. |
Agreed. It's very easy to ignore. There are thoughts that human in their nature will mostly prioritise short term over long term.
https://theconversation.com/is-humanity-doomed-because-we-cant-plan-for-the-long | |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 12:52 - Mar 29 with 588 views | NthQldITFC |
| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 11:26 - Mar 29 by J2BLUE |
They aren't going to bother.
We could be doing so many things.
I'm convinced they believe some sort of new technology will save us. I'm starting to think that is our only hope as well.
I'm sure the richest will be just fine. As for the plebs, who cares? |
I'm sure that there's a mix of rationales in the various leaders who have failed us, and I'm sure some of them believe in some magical new, scalable technology and no changes in lifestyle.
But I suspect most are intelligent enough to realise that in all probability there's little to no hope, and they'll just take what they can and sod the future and their children's hopes and dreams.
The thing is that there's always a tiny sliver of hope for a least some kind of recovery or at least mitigation, so criminal negligence on an unprecedented and monumental and terminal scale is where we are.
There will probably be a famine at some point fairly soon which reaches deep into the parts that it never used to reach, and then we'll see how so-called 'developed' nations react, as law and order crumbles and ivory towers burn.
We need to make change happen from above and from below, but I don't have much hope.
Humans are just so fundamentally selfish and dishonest and manipulative in all things in life when it comes down to it, at least the worst of us are. But the worst of us tend to be the ones who govern and defend the utterly indefensible. |  |
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 12:57 - Mar 29 with 586 views | Swansea_Blue |
Of course we’re not. See Glasser’s latest thread attacking the alternative for the reasons why (not the specifics re. Corbyn, but the response to anyone who suggests we need different political priorities). Some people seem horrified (and maybe threatened?) by the thought of having something different. So we’ll keep getting the same outcomes. [Post edited 29 Mar 2023 12:58]
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| In shocking news, we're not preparing for the impact of Climate Change on 13:04 - Mar 29 with 557 views | Buhrer |
"We"..... ? The rich are making money hand over fist raping the planet fill their boots style. They've planned for climate change; they will own the lifeboat. Everyone else gets to go Road Warrior. |  | | |
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