▲ 156 ▼ ‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 9 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 19 points 9 months ago (6 children) If Mother Earth doesn't kill us, the ICE agents will. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 9 months ago (3 children) ICE can't kill us all. The climate change our politicians and corporations are resolutely ignoring certainly can. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago Ice might kill us all if we muck up the environment more... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago Climate change can't kill us all unless we hit some strange runaway effect that wasn't triggered when atmospheric CO2 levels were higher 500 million years ago (although the sun was 5% less bright back then). There might only be a couple million people hanging out on tropical Antarctica, but they could survive. Humans are hardy; our species survived the ice age and the accompanying desertification of Africa with just some sharp rocks, our species can survive a mass extinction event with all our modern science and technology. No, if we die out entirely, it will be fascism that does it. Shitheads that would rather burn the last remaining footholds of human survival than let the future exist outside of their control. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jim@lemmy.org 1 point 9 months ago Even if they do pay attention to it, I think the global consensus is that it wouldn’t matter anyway… we are fucked. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cravl@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago something something joke about disappearing glaciers being the real threat from ice something something permalink fedilink source parent [–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Don't worry, we will have a nuclear winter, so you're technically correct. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 9 months ago (3 children) ICE can't kill us all. The climate change our politicians and corporations are resolutely ignoring certainly can. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago Ice might kill us all if we muck up the environment more... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago Climate change can't kill us all unless we hit some strange runaway effect that wasn't triggered when atmospheric CO2 levels were higher 500 million years ago (although the sun was 5% less bright back then). There might only be a couple million people hanging out on tropical Antarctica, but they could survive. Humans are hardy; our species survived the ice age and the accompanying desertification of Africa with just some sharp rocks, our species can survive a mass extinction event with all our modern science and technology. No, if we die out entirely, it will be fascism that does it. Shitheads that would rather burn the last remaining footholds of human survival than let the future exist outside of their control. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jim@lemmy.org 1 point 9 months ago Even if they do pay attention to it, I think the global consensus is that it wouldn’t matter anyway… we are fucked. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago Ice might kill us all if we muck up the environment more... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago Climate change can't kill us all unless we hit some strange runaway effect that wasn't triggered when atmospheric CO2 levels were higher 500 million years ago (although the sun was 5% less bright back then). There might only be a couple million people hanging out on tropical Antarctica, but they could survive. Humans are hardy; our species survived the ice age and the accompanying desertification of Africa with just some sharp rocks, our species can survive a mass extinction event with all our modern science and technology. No, if we die out entirely, it will be fascism that does it. Shitheads that would rather burn the last remaining footholds of human survival than let the future exist outside of their control. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jim@lemmy.org 1 point 9 months ago Even if they do pay attention to it, I think the global consensus is that it wouldn’t matter anyway… we are fucked. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago something something joke about disappearing glaciers being the real threat from ice something something permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Don't worry, we will have a nuclear winter, so you're technically correct. permalink fedilink source parent