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silence7 ,

It’s worth doing more than voting. If you’re able, sign up to volunteer and donate. Adopt a close congressional race too; fairly modest travel can get a lot of people to a swing district for the day.

silence7 ,

It means picking a swing district near you, and then supporting the Democrat with volunteer time and (if you can afford it) money and recruiting others to join you.

silence7 OP ,

Funny how I never see this message about right-wing blockades or football games

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silence7 OP ,

Large corporate environments often have a team which reviews updates and may defer them from being rolled out.

silence7 ,

FYI it’s really really easy to use archive sites to bypass soft paywalls like this.

silence7 OP ,

It doesn’t follow that large scale drops in human population happen within the next few decades

silence7 OP ,

Sure, in Sicily. Not Chicago.

silence7 OP ,

It just takes a set of policy decisions. Aliens not required.

silence7 OP ,

I recommend getting counseling and engaging in activism.

How bad it gets is very much under human control still

silence7 OP ,

We already bent it from 4C by 2100 to 3C by 2100. We can change outcomes if we work for them.

Success is not guaranteed, but one way to guarantee failure is to do nothing and sit around hoping for aliens.

silence7 OP ,

It remains a concern; and is proceeding at a few mm per year.

I’m seeing it affect local planning in a meaningful way where I live, and is demonstrably affecting property values in low-lying areas.

silence7 OP ,

Mammals tend to have fun being mammals. I’m not aware of any evidence that it is temperature-related.

silence7 OP ,

Build community. Foster social trust. Work to end fossil fuels. Move if you must

silence7 OP ,

There was a pedo-sexualization harassment campaign aimed at her when she was younger. Any reddit post mentioning her would get flooded with posts suggesting a desire to rape her. It was really ugly, and this feels like the tail end of that.

Source: moderate r/climate and c/climate

silence7 OP ,

At the cost it comes in at, it competes with longer-duration energy storage. Very expensive, and only has value to the extent that it reduces the need to build storage instead.

silence7 OP ,

It happens with almost every nuclear reactor built, no matter when

silence7 OP ,

Per the article:

Now, these problems have been fairly obvious for at least a decade. Why are they only becoming acute now? Well, international economists are fond of citing Dornbusch’s Law: “The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.” What happened in China’s case was that the government was able to mask the problem of inadequate consumer spending for a number of years by promoting a gigantic real estate bubble. In fact, China’s real estate sector became insanely large by international standards.

silence7 OP ,

Per the article:

Sekisui Chemical, a supplier to display makers, is tackling the moisture issue. It says it has developed sealants that allow its cells to last 10 years.

Not nearly as good as silicon, but perhaps good enough for a lot of applications

silence7 OP , (edited )

Sadly you can’t desalinate without a significant energy input.

silence7 OP ,

Huh? Plenty of desalination going on already. Brine gets diluted back into the ocean.

The reason it’s limited is that desalination requires a lot of energy and is therefore too expensive for most agricultural use

silence7 OP ,

I see lots of renderings and press releases…but nothing about what it actually cost once built, and I don’t see others rushing to do the same, which suggests that the project didn’t come in anywhere near the promised cost per unit volume of desalinated water.

silence7 OP ,

Probably used a color palette calibrated to use the blue end of the spectrum for the cooler temperatures since the late 1800s. Those low temperatures have stopped happening.

silence7 OP ,

It’s not about ‘fucked/not fucked’ but a matter of degree.

We’re at the point where we go into what is essentially a minefield where we’ll see individual ecosystem components fail. We don’t know exactly when each of those will happen, but we do know that every 1/10 of a degree of warming we can avoid sharply lowers the risk from here on out.

silence7 OP ,

We’re at the point we’re pretty bad things happen, but not yet at the point where they’re bad enough to take down civilization. Acting quickly will keep it from getting that bad

silence7 OP ,

There has started to be change. The US and EU are actually cutting emissions already, and it looks like China is about to.

It’s that we’re not cutting emissions to zero quickly enough yet. That’s going to take a lot of work to make it happen.

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