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[–] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My understanding is a lot of the rich assholes with the power to do something about this view these deaths as desirable.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It's not like people actually cared about the victims of previous disasters. Covid, ebola and all the other things (wars also).

    In my mind I always see a post about Warhammer40k where they said the emperor kills 1000 people a day just to stay alive - and how thankful we would be if only 1000 people would be killed for the rich and not more.
    *(My lore is not up to date so correct me with the real imaginary numbers pls)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That's 365000, so nearly half a million but lower than what I'd imagine nearly 500k to be. Can't believe that universe is 'better'

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Next up in billionaire conferences: "from denial to adaptation: how to survive global warming like a pro"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I hope I won't be one of them

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    That's a bingo

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Conservatives- "Hold my beer"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Don’t worry, this Smitsonian Fake News Rag will soon be taken care of

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  • 18 comments in c/climate@slrpnk.net view that post
    [–] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    9 million a year die from starvation, about another 9 million from air pollution, much if it from cars, many 100s of thousands die every year from easily prevented diseases.

    Many 10s of 1000s die from heat every year. Before that many 10s of 1000s died from cold

    I think it safe to say we literally don't give a shit, while this info is good to know, this will just be another one of those statistics, like the above.

    On the flip side, planes run into a building, a couple 1000 killed and the earth will be scorched and trillions spent. we have near zero concept of risk.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The point is that this is just the shot across the bow. You can't defend yourself against weather like the stuff that is coming. Food can also not defend itself from that stuff. You depend on food.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    and as always, fossil fuel companies won't be held reliable for any of them...

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  • [+] -12 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Fossil companies exist because of billions of consumers like you. Half of Earth's population is alive thanks to nitrate fertilizer, made with natural gas. Industrial agriculture takes 10 fossil calories to produce one calory of food. And so on, and so forth.

    No raindrop blames itself for the flood.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Some people demand a shitload more than others though. The average car burns 1 m³ of petrol each year. I burn none with my bike.

    Then you have people who demand large meat portions in every single meal. I am quite happy to eat oats.

    Some are raindrops, others are buckets. Then you have private jet owners... Heavy carbon taxes could help, or some kind of overall environmental harm calculation for it. If you actually care about the poor and don't just want to use them to defend your own life of luxury, its pretty easy to subsidise or reduce rate for essentials that overall rich or poor buy in similar quantities anyway. Its luxuries that the rich buy a lot more of and the poor dying more from pollution.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Half of Earth’s population is alive thanks to nitrate fertilizer,

    Only if you count the animal torture industry in "the population". More protein is spent keeping cows alive than humans.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    humans eat 2/3 of global crop calories. don't spread misinformation.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Calories are not protein. Humans burn lots of calories doing stuff animals in factory farming settings won't, such as being living adults that don't lactate kilos per day, or going for a walk, or doing physical labor.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    warm winter in Canada = no snow pack = dry forests in spring and forest fires by May-June.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This month is expected to be the busiest September for number of named tropical storms for the Pacific, and half of them were cat4/5.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    This seems irresponsible. Specifically expecting Africa for heat deaths. It is the continent least affected by El nino, which is an eastern pacific phenomenon, and southern hemisphere has mostly eastward winds.

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Although the work has not been peer-reviewed

    That part's kind of important when making big claims, innit

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago

    Overall, the researchers predict about 451,000 heat-related deaths during the entire El Niño event. That means hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk over the next several months.

    I can see why they want to make the report public before a lengthy peer review.

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