Climate Change? Nahhh ...

this is the climate change thread. You are not a “violent reactionary” if you like to eat beef often, use a gas stove and travel on planes with great frequency.

Now, if you say that “well none of those things are on the table” then you agree it’s a little quaint the world’s going to be irrevocably hideous only because we don’t use solar and wind power enough, or electric cars. Either the problem’s not quite that bad, and some of this is just theater, or we admit that measures that “just create a lot of jobs and have zero significant sacrifices” isn’t gonna cut it.

Surely you can see how the thread goes through the needle a little too neatly. It’s little like getting a cancer diagnosis and being told “well, that person over there has what you have and they’re doing x rounds of chemo to get rid of the cancer, but you can just, you know, eat this $3000 subsidized lollipop here, and that’d be fine.”

 

Plastic not cloth takes forever to decompose. Cloth is organic.

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I want to push back on your definition of progressive. A progressive is someone who understands science, technology, ways of thinking and problems charge with time and we as a society must adapt as we make new discoveries and our understanding of our world comes into sharper focus.

And you’re right that Americans don’t like to be told what to do; but we love being sold new shit to help us with our lives. One of the big problems is certain industries want to frame everything in terms of jobless and loss of rights and liberty and it’s nonsense. I used fossil fuels because it is the most egregious example of an industry trying to deny climate change to the point of being the new Big Tobacco.

And as much as the demonizing and double standards that might pop up, the alternative is worse. Beef is contributing to climate change because of emissions and loss of forested land to raise cattle. But at some point, cattle will not be sustainable because the climate won’t be sustainable. Water use in the West is going to drastically change because no matter now many dams we build or deltas we drain, the lack of consistent rain means large scale agriculture and cities will become untenable. We must change because we’re not going to have a choice soon and too bad for the but my freedom people.

 

Plastic doesn’t decompose. It just degrades into smaller and smaller pieces. We all have plastic inside us. What that will do to our DNA is anyone’s guess.

 

Scientists: July was the hottest month in recorded history.

Alma: BuT tHe CoOLs!!!

 

Uh huh.

I’m not talking about whether climate change is real. I am talking about how the messaging around climate change isn’t very effective in a democracy.

 

Alma doesn't mater.

 

It is disgusting and nasty and has been for a week or so now.
Can somebody please put me in a pod or something until Oct.?
No, wait, I'm headed to the beach for Labor Day weekend. Put me in there until the Thursday before, then I'll go back on Tuesday. Then I'll nap until the leaves start to change.

 

What about matter?

 

Lightning McQueen nods his hood.

 

Goodbye permafrost, hello lots more CO2.

Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees