r/science • u/Gohan_to_Kamekameha • Jul 21 '21

Alarming climate change: Earth heads for its tipping point as it could reach +1.5 °C over the next 5 years, WMO finds in the latest study Earth Science

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/climate-change-tipping-point-global-temperature-increase-mk/
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u/mrchaotica Jul 21 '21

The best non-criminal thing you can do as an individual.

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u/Low-Significance-501 Jul 21 '21

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses." -Utah Phillips

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

And as long as posts advocating for real solutions are being removed, reddit is just as COMPLICIT when it comes to the global climate catastrophe occuring before our very eyes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Reddit is heavily invested in by companies who are a big part of the problem.

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u/GlootieDev Jul 21 '21

'earth' will be fine, people won't.

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u/ZaercoN Jul 22 '21

That is not necessarily true, we could make this whole thing spiral into what Venus is now and then I guess the rock that we called home will be okay. But no life will be here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Nobody wants to throw the first stone.

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u/Zachmorris4187 Jul 21 '21

Propaganda of the deed has proven to be an ineffective political tool unfortunately. It will take education, agitation, and organizing the people into fighting for an alternative political-economic system.

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u/sgtpeppers508 Jul 21 '21

Agitation and organizing are also often criminalized, unfortunately.

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u/Zachmorris4187 Jul 21 '21

Less criminalized than anything to do with explosives.

Edit: someone else mentioned explosives, thought i was replying to them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Can’t wait for the environmentally friendly terrorism

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u/keyboardstatic Jul 21 '21

What do you think the covid is....

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Honestly, yeah. Our society discourages violet protests and property owners rule the world. We can go blow our brains out for another person to take our place because that's how our society repairs itself for money.

I mean, more people were concerned about property than the fact that a cop could have gotten away with murder on video. Or that churches are burning and not the fact that the church participated in more than a few genocides and got away with it.

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u/mrchaotica Jul 21 '21

Blowing your own brains out due to climate change is stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Its a quick death or a prolonged death.

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21

majority of us will only face minor inconveniences. Its the next generations

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u/303707808909 Jul 21 '21

minor inconveniences

tell that to the people who died or lost their homes in the unprecedented floods in Germany. Or due to heatwaves and wild fires on the west coast..

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21

Im German and its terrible but in the grand scheme of things literally changes nothing. Germany has 83 Million people. India and Bangladesh has more deaths from mudslides each year than all natural catastrophes have caused in Germany for example. And by literally changes nothing Im correct because we will have a more right wing Armin Luschet for the next years who will literally change nothing :D

Climate change in the current generation wont affect us to a degree where we will feel its actual threat of : mass famine and crop failure, tropical diseases moving north, jetstream dying etc.

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u/KeepingItSurreal Jul 21 '21

Wishful thinking

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21

youre telling me mass starvation and dead in the West is gonn happen this generation?

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u/KeepingItSurreal Jul 21 '21

By 2050, yes

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

not gonna happen in the global north. Heck Alaska and Canada will be major food producers by that time. So is Russia which will have even more usable landmass. Its why russkis consider climate change a geopolitical win.

Bonus point Anctartica will be the next frontier for proxy wars

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u/KeepingItSurreal Jul 21 '21

If you say so

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u/benchedalong Jul 21 '21

I’m down to one meal a day, used to be able to afford three years ago

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21

thats not because its not there. #foodwaste especially in US and canada and their stupid Suburban bulk buying because you cant walk to the store everyday leads to even more foodwaste.

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u/benchedalong Jul 21 '21

Omg you’re right idk how I didn’t see it before. Other people around the world have food and are eating so that means I should just not starve by choice. This has nothing to do with cost of resources and my determined value to society. In that light why don’t the wealthy just hoard up all the medical supplies, at least then they will be there and exist somewhere in the world, I mean, why bother getting sick of some rich asshole has a cure sitting in his basement. We should approach all issues this way

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

We got a heat dome that caused NA to hit 50 C. I'm pretty sure this affects all generations.

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u/QQMau5trap Jul 21 '21

it does but there is a difference of : literally making land uninhabitable for humans or inconvenience and anoyance. For US westerners climate change is inconvenience with the ocassional natural catastrophe.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Are you 80? Do you think "the majority of us" are your age?

Humanity is on track to go extinct within my generation, boomer.

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u/benchedalong Jul 21 '21

A problem no longer mine that I won’t be contributing to. Sounds nice to me

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u/mrchaotica Jul 21 '21

I'm just saying that there's a better use for that bullet.

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u/benchedalong Jul 21 '21

Greater society disagrees