Remember when fossil fuel company scientists discovered their industry was warming the earth at an alarming rate? They predicted the end of humanity as we know it if we didn’t stop? And now people are seriously arguing the more proven science?
Honestly no, and not because it didn’t happen, but because it happened in 1896 before even my great grandparents were born. 127 years and 5 generations later and people are still denying that it’s happening at all and there’s been very little meaningful progress to move away from fossil fuels in that time. Things won’t start to get better until climate change kills enough people off that we can no longer sustain an industrial society.
Things will never get better. When we can’t sustain an industrial society then people will start murdering each other for the dwindling resources we have left. This is the best it’s going to ever be in anyone alive’s lifetime.
No it will not. There is absolutely zero evidence of that, and if anything, the ocean warming levels point to the contrary. It can just as easily spiral into the opposite direction and create a greenhouse style system like you see on Venus. Even if we died today, biodiversity levels would take millions of years to get back to pre-industrial levels.
It’s a great show, I’ve seen it. The problem is the rate of ocean acidification is unprecedented at this speed in our geological history, and that our current level hasn’t been hit in 300 million years, and we’re still trucking. This could create an irreversible change.
The other thing to factor in is this will be it for intelligent life. We won’t get another chance at a species progressing the way we did because much of the world’s easily accessible oil has been used up.
No previous life form based its expansion on oil like we did. And no previous life, in its unfathomable diversity, was even close to prior ones in shape, form or ability.
Why would you think that a future intelligent form would turn out like us and base its existence on fossil fuels?
Since every evolutionary era, when devastation then a rise of life occured, the new life forms were more advanced than the previous.
It's likely that whatever life develops after we're gone will find more ecologically-sound ways to progress than we did. And that's a good thing, cause we were for shit at it.
The evidence in the geological record shows that this level of ocean acidification has never been hit this quickly before. This level of ocean acidificaion is the highest its been in 300 million years and there is nothing indicating it has any intention of going down.
The oceans have healed before and are far more capable of that than you seem to think.
Will it take millions of years? Ofc it will. But it will happen, because as long as there is one single-celled organism that survives our self-immolation it will grow and produce and evolve.
Normal people aren’t denying it at all. Conservatives are denying it. That’s it. Conservatives. A blend of idiots and their leaders who are paid by the pollutors.
Conservatives should be shunned and excluded from polite society. They are proactively killing us and we just walk among them as if they are normal people. They are not.
Eunice Foote’s experiments in 1856 and the documentation of acid rain in the 1850s were sufficient information to stop expansion of fossil fuels without a clear and precise picture of their effects.
This problem can’t be solved on the individual level. Governments need to say enough. Not just to the fossil fuel companies but also some of the people on the center left. Nuclear power is currently the only viable option for electricity. For the life of me, I don’t understand why it’s so opposed. Modern reactors are so safe and produce so little waste it’s a ready made solution.
It can’t be solved on an individual level, but that’s exactly where it has to start. Any movement begins with one person convincing another, who convinces another, and so on until it weaves its way through the zeitgeist. Nothing will ever be accomplished if we just say “nuh uh, it’s the companies and the government’s fault!” Once a critical mass is reached, the corporations and governments will have to bow to the people’s will or face a revolution. It’s the only way it works, and it’s the only way it has ever worked.
Nuclear power is opposed because people are afraid of it. People are not logical and they’re definitely not smart, so when they think of a nuclear reactor, they imagine an atomic bomb blowing up over and over while it powers a generator, like a more powerful combustion engine.
Why? Why release someone on house arrest who is a FUCKING RAPIST AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING GANG LEADER? How is that in the best interests of anyone but this POS?
Neato! It really is just a piece of (waterproof) paper on a clipboard – and you write on the clipboard, too – and with just a regular graphite pencil. I can’t say I’ve ever given much thought to how one might write underwater in that situation, but if I had, I would’ve guessed some sort of waterproof tablet. But it’s cool to see that sometimes the basics work better.
Anyone with a small child very clearly remembers how brutal last years RSV season was. I bet adoption is going to be high, get it before they have supply constraints.
It will continue to get worse due to the antivax movement. They will go full swing against this vaccine.
It’s unfortunate that in the 21st century, we are moving backward in the world. We should be exploring the universe and cure all diseases. Yet, we have a large majority of Americans who want to take us backward.
And I think it’s going to be completely reasonable when parents of young children state those that refuse the vaccine aren’t going anywhere near their kids
It took me weeks to recover. I know they say it usually don’t hit adults too hard, but damn I was miserable.
All the jokers who came in my store saying, “I gawts thuh awr ays veeee” knowing I have babies too. If I ever lost my damn mind and just started cracking skulls it would be because some sick jackass knowingly coughs at me.
I’m thankful that parents will have this. My poor little babies just cried and moped for days.
RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization among infants in the U.S. The shot, branded under the name Beyfortus, would provide families with a simple option to protect their babies during the respiratory virus season.
When I saw "otter attack" the first thing that came to mind is they must have been harrasing them or too close to babies. Something stupid, whatever it was.
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