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Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points (www.economist.com)
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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I really wish we would cut it out with the hopium already.

There’s no approaching, the critical tipping points are well and truly behind us. The next step is nature showing her creative ways to get rid of the pest that we are.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (11 children)

    I don't think we're past all the climate tipping points; that'd start to cause runaway changes. Swift action right now would still provide a chance to lessen the impact.

    The worst case scenarios would be truly disastrous though, and would cause secondary human conflicts due to unavailability of basic resources.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Might be sooner. That article is from 2023, that was before the rush of all these new data centers, who all needs billions of gallons of water a day to operate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Holy shit...I can't believe I hadn't seen that water article until now. That should have been the top headline of every news outlet, every day.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was pretty big news on the day it hit the papers in the UK, I think it was front page of the Guardian.

    Everyone was shocked and horrified on that day about it, comments and posts everywhere, and then it faded away over the following days and weeks as more shocking and horrifying news about other stuff was published, till everyone forgot how shocking and horrifying this was.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    We are caught in a system from which there is no escape and which dictates every facet of human civilization. It will not stop until it has consumed everything, at which point it will collapse, crushing humanity under the flaming rubble.

    We are about to get great filter'd.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I think you should sell the earmuffs and heavily tinted sunglasses you’re wearing.

    It’s not front and centre, but The Congo and Sudan be are already there. So is the war in Syria and Yemen. And thats just the start of the drought and famine wars. It’ll get a lot worse fairly quickly.

    Four times you wrote “would” in those 2 paragraphs. I wish I could share your optimism.

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