Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at 39°C in the town of Rivadavia.
At least some select few got briefly rich by capitalizing on destruction of all the things … I was told that was always the goal, the very best of mankind, the one true god.
Born too early to not give a fuck, born too late to have (or want) a decent life expectancy, but born just in time to witness the global biodiversity collapse at the start of a super fast mass extinction event.
It really feels weird that there is nothing you as a person can do
You can always vote better. There are choices you can make as a consumer, but mostly it is fiddling at the edges. We need massive action and that means government.
At this rate we’re probably only a year or two away from seeing an area in the world head into the 50°C+ range and kill everyone who can’t get into air conditioning.
We won’t go extinct, but we could suffer civilization collapse and billions could die. The survivors would live in the ruins of the planet for basically ever because it could take so long to recover humans aren’t humans by then.
Soon we will be telling next gen peeps (mutant descendants) how ‘back in our day’ we could walk outside, not pay a daily air allowance to the regional megacorp, and even see animals and plants irl.
But at least Soylent Green will be available in several flavors so that is something to look forward to …
Hi. Ye ... I totally have zero hope in anything anymore, politics, global climate change, global inequality... Looks like things aren't getting better...
They largely believe they’re the main characters in a universe created just for them by a super being.
Their belief that this is all planned is unshakable. Because the second that’s in doubt, so is everything else they believe.
In order to believe in climate change, they have to stop being religious. That’s a harder sell. So they stick their heads in the sand and pretend it’s all a part of God’s plan.
Yeah, this is like the start of the second act, none of this is surprising or not as discussed before … but at least the overwhelmingly sad second act will be fairly short - the last act however, with no fat lady to sing, will be a long and painful few hundred million years.
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