Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.

Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.

    • bisq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      422·
      1 year ago

      Glad to be child free, can’t imagine bringing a child into this world…

      • carbonprop@lemmy.caEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        I’m terrified for my kiddo. We’ve done all we can over the past 10 years. Went plant based, got our winter heating off oil, ride electric bikes, all my lawn tools are electric, bought an EV. I’m running out of ideas.

        • liara@lemmy.worldEnglish
          352·
          1 year ago

          Spoiler alert: your individual choices don’t matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

          So… We’re fucked.

          • carbonprop@lemmy.caEnglish
            151·
            1 year ago

            Every bit helps. I can’t tell others to make changes if I don’t do it myself.

            • Mjt8@lemmy.worldEnglish
              162·
              1 year ago

              Sure you can. We don’t need to be martyrs to demand system-wide change

          • Sigma_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            You may find this article helpful in why it still matters:

            “My country’s emissions are so negligible, it doesn’t matter what we do. It won’t make a difference”. It’s true: the emissions of many countries in the world are completely dwarfed by a few big players. We see this in the chart below. But there are several reasons why rich countries with ‘negligible’ emissions need to step up to the challenge. What they do does matter.

            https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/small-emitters

            Individual actions, while inconsequential, can help signal the market ( eg demand for ev infrastructure) and can add up when combined with federal regulations.

      • Ghis@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Fucking THIS. It’s the main reason I don’t want kids. I know they’d likely live a life of agony, and I don’t want THEM to have kids, because my grandchildren would be even more fucked.

  • halki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    1 year ago

    As much as this message may be urgent, this is not the right sub for it. There’s no technology angle to the article.

  • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    For the past couple of years it’s been a lot of news of “Hottest Day Ever” to which my favorite response has always been a slightly cheeky “So far!”, but I’ve realized with the recent coverage of large swaths of the US reaching deadly wet bulb temps that that’s going to change. The headlines won’t be for the hottest day, they’ll be for the highest death count, and nobody will say the second part but we’ll all be thinking it.