It’s April and I am sweating like crazy, it fucking sucks, but it also got me wondering what can I do? There is so much conflicting advice out there, even if I tell others about this, when they ask for a solution what do I tell?
Very pessimistic view here. I believe we have already passed the point of no return with human emissions. The worst of climate change will now happen faster and sooner than it naturally would. It’s just a matter of mitigating the disaster imo.
Get rid of capitalism. Which, we won’t.
We wont.
That is reality, it doesn’t matter if the entire world turn off fossil fuel usage permanently this instant, there is allready far too much greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere to reverse course, we might get to delay the inevitable a decade or so, but shit is comming.
It’s weird how ‘not giving up’ got us penicillin and earthquake warnings, so I’d hope we do a little more than “we won’t. Oh well.”
We are making progress down paths that could shorten the correction after all the CO² and methane is removed from the atmosphere, and it seems important to explore the potential – as many as we can, actually, as science often fails.
comming
I may need a translation. Related to comms, like in communications?
I guess we could build a gigantic airconditioner and solve the problem that way…
comming
It’s a typo of coming. As in the word “come” or “to arrive”.
CO²
I may need a translation. CO² like in E = mc²? What is the square of oxygen?
It boils down to cash.
Companies can make money off penicillin. Governments can readily allocate funds to visible, common disasters.
Disasters that have been a century in the making and require whole nations to change the way they do things for an observable result decades down the line is almost impossible to get money for. Our shortsightedness is our downfall
Societal collapse.
A long and rough collapse, followed by a slow rebuilding of a much smaller but much more unified global society.
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I die, and for the first time, know true peace.
As individuals, nothing. And if you do whilst countries like China, the US and Russia continue to pollute on a massive scale, you’re being taken for a fool.
You can hope that billions of people choose to act against their own self-interest in a way that has never happened before or you can move somewhere with a cooler climate.
It has taken about 100 years to create this problem.
We can start to solve it, maybe today, or maybe tomorrow, but it won’t go away within a single election period…
Are you the head of a major international corporation? If not, there’s nothing meaningful you can do.
Do what you can to stop feeding the petroleum products industry. They use the money you give them to literally fuel this crisis.
- Choose an EV or hybrid for your next car
- Stop buying plastic storage containers and avoid plastics wherever you can
If you own your home, check into federal, state, and local rebates for these things:
- Replace your HVAC when it’s time with a heat pump
- Replace your water heater when it’s time with an electric or heat pump model
- If you live in a cold climate, look into electric-based heated flooring
- Look into solar panels for your roof
Adding to these good suggestions: shop at thrift stores.
And if you have time: volunteer at a thrift store.
nuke the sun
So if all world leaders collectively agreed to put aside their differences, ditch capitalism and mobilise their entire populations to actively work to reduce emissions tomorrow we might stand a slim chance of preventing the worst case scenario…
So existential dread and weed it is.
Is that from that Paul movie?
yep.
Nothing. There is literally nothing you can do.
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-china/
"China is the world’s largest annual greenhouse gas emitter.
In 2020, it emitted 12.3bn tonnes of CO2 equivalent (GtCO2e), amounting to 27% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the CAIT database maintained by the World Resources Institute (WRI). This includes emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).
. . .
It is a “non-Annex I” party to the convention, meaning it is not obligated to contribute climate finance and was not required to make binding emissions cuts under the Kyoto Protocol."
Nothing changes until China changes.
And here come the finger pointing Ameritards trying to deflect their own responsibilities after polluting the planet for the last century and still refusing to drop red meat & cars and moving vast amounts of their production capabilities to China. If you advocate for China not to develop their rural shitheap regions, then you should also advocate for actual de-growth in the US, significantly lowering your own living standards.
How about we do that per capita, Cowboy ?
Can we, like… Put a lid on China? Like a big dome or something?
US emissions per capita are double that of china . So where do you want your dome ?
We can have more than 1 dome.
Domes for everyone!
Miniature American flags for others.
Way to put the blame on China when all of the Occident delocalized production over there. Every rich country needs to change, and they also need to help emerging countries to develop sustainably too. We spent centuries destroying the environment for growth and now we’re on top, we can’t tell these countries not to do everything we did because it’s not sustainable.
Agreed on the “not much you can do on an individual level” though. We need to change the way we consume and live but it’s peanuts compared to what needs to change for mega corpos and countries.
TIL the antonym to orient
Yeah, I’d like to see emissions attributed to the places where products end up, not where they’re produced.
You can find data on recycling where “being shipped to another country to be recycled” counts as being recycled I believe. Also you can find estimates of historical emissions by country since the industrial revolution. China is the current leader of emissions but I believe the US is top of all time, closely followed by Europe. I’ll try to find some data when I have a moment.
Edit: Historical emissions
Given that China has ~18% of the world’s population, it’s not super shocking that they produce 27% of emissions (especially given how much manufacturing has been outsourced there).
By comparison, the US has less than 5% of the world population and produces ~11% of emissions, with only Saudi Arabia being higher in per person emissions.
I know people here shit on individual action, but avoiding beef and driving are the two big ones
Not having kids is also huge
This is the biggest reduction to your possible carbon footprint. I’m glad I have been successful with this step.
And, please, raise a kid or three to pass that along. Just don’t produce them.
I shit in a bucket and recycle it into my own food, does that count as making a difference?
