Enjoy the next 10 or so years everyone, they'll likely be the last normal years of your lives.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Normal? It's already weird.
Weird is nothing compared to what we're headed for.
Sure, but weird is not normal.
It's not normal now, but it'll be the new normal when we get there
We’re so fucked lol.
I'm going to be a dad in a few weeks. 🥲 (Feel free to dunk on me with the inevitable 'why?'s, and 'did you live under a rock?' I can't feel any worse anymore anyway 🤗)
I chose not to have kids. You can have my carbon offset.
Individual guilt for systemic problems plays well to the elites (ultra-wealthy). Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I want my offset back.
I also don't have kids so have my carbon offset as well
I also don't have kids but I'm keeping my carbon offset to my damn self.
And my axe!
I'll take that axe if it improves my carbon offset
Pounding the wife tonight then! thx
Mine is 7 months old now. I felt the same. Just wait, you'll likely feel that it was the best thing you ever did. Your kid may be the one to drive some positive change. Just do the best you can and give yourself some grace.
Yes everyone should use this logic. Your kid might be the one, have 10 to increase your odds!
Realistically, 10 probably would spread your resources too thin, if you want each to excel enough to be part of the solution.
3-5 though, that's a good range.
Your sarcasm detector needs a tune up.
No I understood the sarcasm, and responded as the "straight foil"
It's the style of humor of Tommy Lee Jones's character in Men In Black.
Good luck to you and yours. I sincerely hope we’re wrong about how bad we think it’s going to get in the next 50 years.
You wrote hope but that message can go either way
We deserve it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The broken boundaries mean the systems have been driven far from the safe and stable state that existed from the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, to the start of the industrial revolution.
Prof Johan Rockström, the then director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre who led the team that developed the boundaries framework, said: “Science and the world at large are really concerned over all the extreme climate events hitting societies across the planet.
The boundary for biosphere integrity, which includes the healthy functioning of ecosystems, was broken in the late 19th century, the researchers said, as destruction of the natural world decimated wildlife.
These are vital for life but excessive use of fertilisers mean many waters are heavily polluted by these nutrients, which can lead to algal blooms and ocean dead zones.
Prof Simon Lewis, at University College London and not part of the study team, said: “This is a strikingly gloomy update on an already alarming picture.
A separate initiative to define the end of the Holocene and the start of a new age dominated by human activities moved forward in July, when scientists chose a Canadian lake as the site to represent the beginning of the Anthropocene.
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The planetary boundaries are not irreversible tipping points beyond which sudden and serious deterioration occurs, the scientists said. Instead, they are points after which the risks of fundamental changes in the Earth’s physical, biological and chemical life support systems rise significantly.
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Phasing out fossil fuel burning and ending destructive farming are the key actions required.
In other words, we're all gonna die.
Nonono, spontaneously in the near future all humanity will reject greed and gluttony to begin working together, optimizing resource use, and minimizing global impact to levels the geological and biological systems can cope with.
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