Throw another hotdog on the uranium! It’s almost time for The President’s Daily Truthcast.

Almost makes me wish for patrolling the Mojave.

Oh look we get both!

Not while we still allow psychopaths to be in control.

Correct. Oligarchs are responsible for the murder of billions of humans. Absurd, disgusting, shameful... yet, wholly predictable.

as A physics channel person as said, countries have largely abandoned global climate change for a while now. they are mostly going YOLO with oil now. plus there are subtle acts of undermining/sabotaging environmental activism for years, like funding "carbon footprint companies" so they dont have to reduce thier emissions, and funding "eco-activists" you hear in the news defacing public properties to incite ire against protestors.(mona lisa, gluing yourself to cars,,,etc)

Some science channels were called out for promoting these companies as a way of reducing your carbon footprint, luckily they stopped once they found out.

Sure we will!

Human-driven climate change will accelerate the Holocene mass extinction, ending Homo Sapiens - and with us will go all carbon-producing industry.

The carbon thing finds its equilibrium after some tens of thousands of years, and the climate stabilizes some hundreds of thousands or millions of years after that. And then, provided the biosphere wasn't damaged beyond its ability to compensate or regulate for the increased solar luminosity that has occurred since the last "Hot-House Earth" climate, it will recover and heal.

And if not, then we've killed everything down to the tardigrades, and probably them too, and we end up with a runaway greenhouse Venus type situation some 0.3 - 0.6 billion years early.

And great mother earth once the surface no longer supports human life.

Yeah, these days I'm more worried about the potential of future radioactive fallout.

There's always room in the budget for one more cabrón

I think the red hot chili peppers blew through that in 2002

Doomerism like this is not healthy. Things are dire and will get worse for a long time, but the idea that civilisation is guaranteed to collapse is the kind of doom propaganda that fuels inaction. There is so much we can do, and the outcome for future generations better with every positive step we take. What we do does matter, and there's a good chance our core societies will still be going strong in 50 years.

We are witnessing the end of modern civilization, which will end just as fast as it arrived.

So it'll take 10,000 years?

Civilizations and cultures survive the loss of >30% of their population all the time. The black death, the columbian disease exchange, the mongol empire, the collapse of the western roman empire, etc.. Losing billions of people will be terrible, of course, but the billions that survive will still exist and work to survive, and they will be people worth fighting for.

Current food production is over 10 times what is necessary to feed everyone on the planet, with the vast majority of it being wasted on the meat and dairy industry that we can just stop. Food forests require more labor per calorie but are far more resilient to climate change and require far less land area, allowing the remaining agricultural land to rewild and act as a carbon sink.

The AMOC (atlantic current) is "making Europe livable" by making it warmer. Helpfully, climate change will do the same. In pessimistic scenarios, Europe returns to the current average temperature after a decade or two. Again, yes, in this scenario >90% of current human habitation would probably have to be abandoned and human population may dip below one billion, but those hundreds of millions of people still deserve the best chance we can give them.

If our best efforts mean we can only keep a billion people alive, it would be worth it.

If our best efforts mean we can only keep a million people alive, it would be worth it.

If our best efforts mean we can only keep ten thousand people alive, it would be worth it.

Every kiloton of CO2 we stop the emission of is a life saved, and the vast majority are emitted in the US, Europe, and China. If you live in any of these regions, there is so much you can do.

How come the crops won't grow?

Maybe we can hope for a mini-nuclear winter!?

Honestly the replies of "if we can save a single life, our struggle will be worth it" are nothing if not funny in the face of the horrors to come, especially as their coming so we can collectively shove just one more burger in our faces.

Every passing day I get one step closer to just saying "fuck it" and becoming a hedonist while watching 90% of the world seemingly not give a single fuck about the future.

Well, you see, it works like money. You go over budget and plan to pay later. Then, when you go beyond what you expected to borrow, you change the debt ceiling and borrow more. And then when you are beyond your ability to pay off the debt, you change the rules such that you can take a few extra decades. Keep doing this until you have kicked the can down the road beyond your anticipated lifespan. And then your grandchildren can just get fucked for all you care.

Sounds like an ecofash take

Yes but just very few people make up the majority of pollution.

Oh god no........you're suggesting ANOTHER round of boomers??? THATS the reward for all this suffering??? We haven't even gotten rid of all the old boomers yet!

Post WWII did a few ok things for social policy, but didn't do much at all to reduce GHG emissions - except maybe China's one child policy and a more natural reduction in fertitlity in many other countries. but despite those , global population has still gone up 3-4x in that period.

Western world did begin to reduce coal usage but greedily replaced it with petroleum products. Lots of them also axed efficient public transport systems like intercity railways and local tram/streetcar systems in favour of inefficient but more convenient (up to the point of congestion) personal automobiles and quite staggering numbers (billions/trillions/fuckillions) of passenger km of aviation. I'm struggling to imagine a less efficient way to organise people and space that gave rise to that. Maybe we could have everyone live in Europe, work in Australia and go to USA for groceries.

Only major economic recessions like 2008 or covid actually cause emissions to fall in any material way - and they don't last close to long enough. Almost ever other clean tech thing of efficiency improvement is offset by increasing demand.

A few low density countries like Iceland and Norway were able to build enough hydro power to at least get clean electricity but , Norway? erm hardly anti-fossil fuel. Hydro is deemed impractical/inhumane in denser populated countries where they refuse to flood out all the valley dwellers.

No. Complete opposite. Not just full emissions from the buring oil, but replacement oil "needs" to be dug up.

Wells burn for a long time

yeah the spike during ww3 would be bad but the new great depression would do wonders before ww4