The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone

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The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12950348

The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone

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I've definitely crossed over into "there's nothing we can do about it so I'll just live my best life" territory.

Unfortunately, we were never going to stop burning fossil fuels as long as it remained economical.

There needed to be fundamental changes from the ground up, but anyone who fought back against (greed) was immediately cut out from the conversation by useful idiots.

This is the world we've built for ourselves. Now we have to live in it.

Doomerism is just reskinned denialism. Things can be done. Don't let people trick you into believing this.

It took two hundred years or so to cause this, It might take longer to fully fix but that's why we start right now.

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The next best time is now.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit. โ€” Greek Proverb

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

Today is always a good day to make the world a better place. Don't add to the inertia.

There are multiple points that we've determined that things would no longer be reversible.

We have likely crossed one of those points. We might be able to save it at this point, but we're probably not able to go back anymore. It's nice to hope that we could go back, but the reality is that it's almost certainly no longer possible.

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Same. I'm 40 years old, 100% believe that we'll see the fall of global civilization as we know it before I hit pension age.

Consequently, I don't worry about the future. Living day by day is headache enough.

I'm afraid, because I think we have let the idiots drive the bus off the cliff. People are starting to worry, some are jamming on the brakes, another group is still jamming on the gas and pulling the wheel to steer us right off the cliff, and we can't know if we've already jumped the guard rail or if there's still time.

Looking at AMOC, I'm beginning to think the guard rail went bye-bye around 2010-2015.

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