Current Events > We are fucked - UN

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63407459

There is "no credible pathway" to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment.
Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world.
The report says that since COP26 last year, governments carbon cutting plans have been "woefully inadequate".

Depressingly unsurprising.

Reason #312897237654 to not be optimistic or hopeful

Yeah but capitalists made a shitload of money for their shareholders.

ScazarMeltex posted...

Yeah but capitalists made a shitload of money for their shareholders.

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

Oh well. Maybe next time there's a major issue, they'll think about actually enforcing solutions rather than "you can keep doing what you're doing if you just pay a little bit more tax (which just gets passed on to an end consumer anyway)".

kingdrake2 posted...

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/5/AARv9PAAD0st.jpg

Its fine.

Pakistan is still underwater right

Yeah, but a handful of billionaires need to be richer and if you try to stop them then you just hate freedom tbh.

I for one thought waterworld was a fine movie

My 10 acres of Minnesota farmland are going to be worth a million dollars in 20 years at this rate

kingdrake2 posted...

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

Imagine actually forcing someone into this shit.

We need to get rid of billionaires for starters, they're the majority of the problem this world is facing.

if we're fucked then why bother keeping corporation regulations and safety protocals around then, let them do what they want

Did anyone REALLY think this wouldn't happen?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/3/AANRQlAAD0s1.png

Humans deserve this.

kingdrake2 posted...

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

And I will be retired(AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA fuck me couldt even keep a straight face for that like retirement will fucking exist for anyone outside the 1% by then) and wanting to live my last couple years-decades in peace but peace was never going to be an option for my generations later years

kingdrake2 posted...

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

Exactly why I'm not having kids. Don't want them or their kids to suffer and die in some horrid hellscape that the world eventually becomes.

Number090684 posted...

Exactly why I'm not having kids. Don't want them or their kids to suffer and die in some horrid hellscape that the world eventually becomes.

Nice spin zone for the fact you cant get any pussy

eh, we've got like ~30 years of our current prosperity and luxury ahead of us, which is plenty

just hope we get part 3 of ff7 remake before japan is submerged underwater

Number090684 posted...

Exactly why I'm not having kids. Don't want them or their kids to suffer and die in some horrid hellscape that the world eventually becomes.

Yeah, at the moment as a childless dude I think to myself, well this situation sucks but at least I'll have a normalish life before climate change ruins everything

Imagine being 80, having a 45 year old kid and 10 year old grandkid who might have some apocalyptic future ahead of them. Such a depressing thought

Number090684 posted...

Exactly why I'm not having kids. Don't want them or their kids to suffer and die in some horrid hellscape that the world eventually becomes.

You dont need to have kids. There are a lot of kids out there without parents that could do with a loving home.

You can't use China's emissions to make an argument, basically the entire West outsourced their manufacturing to there. China's emissions are redirected emissions from other countries.

theAteam posted...

You can't use China's emissions to make an argument, basically the entire West outsourced their manufacturing to there. China's emissions are redirected emissions from other countries.

truth

Even back in the 19th century they knew this was going to happen but capitalism literally went full steam ahead. It's always been about kicking the can down the road.

I don't know that there's a more disingenuous and obvious troll argument than bringing up China in this discussion. Absolutely no one is dumb enough to not understand the obvious reasons why the numbers are what they are.

Why is Canada so high, don't they have a tiny population?

IMNOTRAGED posted...

I don't know that there's a more disingenuous and obvious troll argument than bringing up China in this discussion. Absolutely no one is dumb enough to not understand the obvious reasons why the numbers are what they are.

You are giving conservatives way too much credit.

It feels like every year is hotter than the last. It's gonna get really bad, some places might become uninhabitable

MC_BatCommander posted...

It feels like every year is hotter than the last. It's gonna get really bad, some places might become uninhabitable

They already are! We're already seeing increase in mass migration due to droughts + famines.

The only way to stop the end of civilization is to end capitalism and accept that a huge portion of the global population will likely crash dramatically as a tragic result

otherwise the planet is just gonna turn into Venus or something and be super sucky to try to live at

It's only a small relief we'll not see a lot of the worst effects within our lifetime, but it pains me that we sacrificed the planet for the lamest fucking reasons for the worst possible people.

It's ok, humans will die out and we'll be replaced by squid people who adapted to the new environments, according to Splatoon

even just earlier this year people on this board were saying current levels of climate damage are fine because they believe someone will just invent some machine to reverse climate damage and thats what we should be counting on. An idea with zero evidence

renewable energy and more efficient infrastructure costs a little more than petrol and coal? Well shit, cant stop the economy guys, guess its better to keep going as is and put our faith in the mystery zoomer who will invent the Time Machine and fix our mess for us 50 years from now.

So I don't have to give a shit about going green anymore? Cool, I'm just gonna fuel up my whale oil burning truck that gets 15 rods to the hogshead.

Just need to refuel my giant RAM truck which gets 1 mile per gallon and keep driving it to work daily even though I live within walking distance. Also fuck taxes, need to lower that shit by cutting funding to public transport

kingdrake2 posted...

they won't be alive in the next 50 years.
our grandchildren and our future great grandchildren will have to deal with the mess.

yup

So many people are buying homes in southern AZ right now

and its just like wtf do you not know about these insane droughts there wont be water here in a decade

Cimate change will happen in spite of us trying to control it. Not 25.000 years ago, The Netherlands (where I live) was ice. Was it humanity's fault all that ice melted then?

The earth is in a constant state of change. Sure we should try and not fuck it up, but the world will continue with or without us. If there is gonna be another ice age, we'll be shit out of luck, since we can do nothing to change that.

If you aren't going to make our society zero-carbon, then we need to move it off-earth.

It seems like that'd be more politically acceptable, considering how half of America has made climate change denialism into part of their religion.

Nazanir posted...

Cimate change will happen in spite of us trying to control it. Not 25.000 years ago, The Netherlands (where I live) was ice. Was it humanity's fault all that ice melted then?

The earth is in a constant state of change. Sure we should try and not fuck it up, but the world will continue with or without us. If there is gonna be another ice age, we'll be shit out of luck, since we can do nothing to change that.

this is probably the most stupid sounding form of climate change denial when you actually read it.

Nazanir posted...

Cimate change will happen in spite of us trying to control it. Not 25.000 years ago, The Netherlands (where I live) was ice. Was it humanity's fault all that ice melted then?

The earth is in a constant state of change. Sure we should try and not fuck it up, but the world will continue with or without us. If there is gonna be another ice age, we'll be shit out of luck, since we can do nothing to change that.

we can always do stuff and just because the planet changes naturally doesnt mean we havent drastically changed things as weve moved into a global civilization of industrialized peoples

DespondentDeity posted...

this is probably the most stupid sounding form of climate change denial when you actually read it.

It's the climate "skeptics" favourite port of call lately. Since the evidence of anthropogenic climate change is overwhelming at this point, we've arrived at "well it's happening but shucks, it's out of our hands." It's saying just enough to say something almost intelligent sounding without actually saying anything useful. It's as if that guy doesn't know that climate scientists are aware that the earth has cycles and ages, and that they just never plugged the natural causes side of things into their models.

Like this guy said on reddit famously 8 years ago:

I'm tired of looking through the nonsense that gets posted by a subset of the community on these types of posts. It's extremely predictable. Ten years ago, you were telling us that the climate wasn't changing. Five years ago, you were telling us that climate change wasn't anthropogenic in origin. Now, you're telling us that anthropogenic climate change might be real, but it's certainly not a bad thing. I'm pretty sure that five years from now you'll be admitting it's a bad thing, but saying that you have no obligation to mitigate the effects.

Aaaand here we are.