Hey chat is it a good thing if:

  • there’s a looming energy crisis
  • a bunch of crops are having really low yields
  • there are lakes and rivers completely drying up
  • we’re about to enter a super El Niño
  • data/fusion centers are polluting/consuming the water/air en masse
  • thousands of people have died in India due to heat before summer’s even officially hit
  • and there’s another pandemic brewing in Africa just prior to millions of people traveling for the World Cup?

How long do we have before shit starts to break down due to lack of food and water, even in the imperial core? I give it less than a year at best.

  • moss_icon [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    13 days ago

    I might just be overly pessimistic but I honestly think it’s already too late to fully avert a climate crisis. Over here in the UK we have just had our hottest May on record at over 35 degrees Celsius. 35 C, in the middle of May, in the fucking United Kingdom is not normal under any definition of the word. We’ve gone from being memed on for it constantly raining to having water droughts in summer.

    Despite that, everyone is addicted to LLMs, our public transport is like something from the 1940s and Nigel Farage who is almost certainly going to be our next prime minister wants to scrap net zero. All this to say, I’m not very optimistic.

    If Reform UK think immigration is too high now then wait until half the planet is uninhabitable.

    • BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      13 days ago

      It definitely is. We are getting hothouse Earth and it’ll be worse then predicted. Humans will be lucky to not go extinct in the next millennia imo. Warming is going ridiculous and so many resources are already depleted. You can’t “go out west” and live off the land, it’s already been plundered. We make up like 90% of the biomass.