We are somehow still not panicking and see that as a point of no return for climate change. These temperatures are still the lowest ones we will experience from now on.
Hopefully, some ignorant people or even climate change deniers will switch their positions and actually support green policies now.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks in power would happily watch the world burn if it means they stay in power. They know they’re rich enough that it won’t hurt them.
For deniers, it getting hotter will never work. There’s an argument about the world being in a long cycle between hot eras & ice ages and temperature records don’t mean much when accurate records only go back one or two hundred years.
A lot of deniers switch to some weird form of defiant stoicism, and pride themselves in taking that stance. I don’t believe there’s ever going to be any switch until the hurt is economic, and that might happen locally in some places, but not globally.
I am really scared for the daughters I have, in what kind of shit show they will have to live. But the scale of suffering this is going to cause is beyond the ability of our brains to process, and it will come down on the poorest and most vulnerable on the planet, and I have to say that is something that remains constant throughout modern history.
IAEA report here: iaea.org/…/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdfThe direct danger to humans from the radiation is minimal but the report fails to include the danger from potential Godzilla or other Kaiju like events. Typical government bureaucracy.
Okinawa swings pretty far left / anto american compared to the rest of Japan. I doubt this represents any kind of shift in Japanese attitudes at large. Okinawa is by far the most politically unique prefecture in Japan.
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