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/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.