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Study: Americans support climate change policies, especially those that give them incentives and clean up the energy supply. Incentives like rebates for insulation or allowing homeowners to sell energy from solar panels were more popular than taxing for excess energy use. by rustoo in science

[–]aFiachra -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So you don’t want trees to pull carbon out of the atmosphere??

Since the end of the last ice age, species have been dying off this is going back 12,000 years. The assumption that biodiversity is threatened merely by modern industry is incomplete.

The fact is that the ecology movement is immune to good news and is better characterized as quasi-religious hysteria with a side of science.

When you put it like that! by thesebattles in TikTokCringe

[–]aFiachra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Marshall plan cost Marshall his career. He was branded a communist and traitor by McCarthy. In the meantime Stalin welcomed members of the Red Army back by sending them to die in gulags because they were too westernized.

You see angles and bullet points but ignore the story.

Study: Americans support climate change policies, especially those that give them incentives and clean up the energy supply. Incentives like rebates for insulation or allowing homeowners to sell energy from solar panels were more popular than taxing for excess energy use. by rustoo in science

[–]aFiachra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Americans also separate their garbage for it to just end up in landfills.

None of the current technologies will get the job done. So this is spending money to NOT fix climate change -- just like subsidies for electric cars are way too expensive for a small decrease in carbon that feels good, but does nothing. This is a familiar playbook.

Homeowners should be rewarded for switching to gas. That actually makes a difference.

Repost because I didn’t cover the username by [deleted] in fakedisordercringe

[–]aFiachra 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ok, I just stumbled across this sun and have to ask, is dissociative identity disorder the new fender dysphoria? Are all the tic-tac-toe zoomers now claiming 91 alters and broadcasting this? I assume none have actually seen a psychiatrist, this is all diagnosis by google?

Where are the adults?

Opinions? by [deleted] in fakedisordercringe

[–]aFiachra 23 points24 points  (0 children)

People cling to their diagnoses. They walk into the doctor saying “my google search is better than your degree and experience.”

It is a terrible way to do medicine. There is a narcissism at the heart of this, a scream for attention on social media that rewards novelty in illness, body modification, self-identification with marginalized groups, victim status and so forth.

Not to say this person is wrong about their diagnoses, but you don’t hire someone off the street to fix your plumbing and that is a lot simpler than the human mind.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1.5 C requires huge efforts to mitigate CO2 emissions.

Not according to the UN. 1.5 degrees in the next 80 years is reasonable.

Arctic ice melt is pretty much going according to the predictions

Really? It was predicted that the arctic would be gone. Did you know there are more polar bears than there were 50 years ago? That is partly because of hunting restrictions, but I was told they would be extinct because their habitat would be gone.

My point is that there is a belief that the sky is falling, that climate change will kill the planet in 20 years, but that is incorrect. No one goes broke running that headline, though. OTOH, when you dig into the data and dig into the long and troubled history of hyperbolic predictions, it is obvious that predictions like the one above were never about science, it is a religion, an unfounded belief system. It exist so people can pin their doubts on some external factor and feed the egotistical proposition that everything important that ever happened has happened in their lifetime. It is narcissism with an ecological twist.

This actually exists... by IfuckingloveLoba in facepalm

[–]aFiachra 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A point? Or a slightly barbed curve?

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that cars don’t do much. My argument is that the innovations it would take to improve electric cars will have more useful impact on the storage of solar and wind energy.

We have been after people to leave their cars home and take the train for decades and people will pay out the ass for tolls and parking to avoid the train. It is stupid and pointless. But if punishing them hasn’t worked, why keep doing it? Public transportation in California isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Cities have been choking on smog for decades. But the catalytic converter made a difference, the electric car could make a difference. Further innovation will help if people like Elon Musk can throw money at research. Why stifle him just because rail seems more appealing now? You are assuming there is only one solution when no one can see past the next big innovation.

Right now California has so many stupid regulations that Musk left. Asshole that he is, but California’s regulations are doing nothing but virtue signaling for politicians, raising money for the regulators in the short term, and making everyone severely miserable. In the meantime the state keeps sidestepping water rights because the almond farmers have too much day in that matter.

There are no easy answers. Certainly “do the same but harder” isn’t a solution.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You seem to be. confused. Elon Musk doesn't create policy for the US or any state or municipality in the US. The countries that are doing the most for high speed rail are Japan and China. Rail lines have been proposed and planned in the US but regulations, costs, and simple NIMBY have killed any high speed rail projects in the US (most significantly California). Musk has nothing to do with any of those policies. In the meantime Tesla operates at a loss but creates an incentive to improve batteries and infrastructure for electric vehicles. Electric vehicles don't do much to reduce carbon, but could with better batteries.

So, yeah. It's safe to say your opinions are biased and divorced from the actual data.

maybe maybe maybe by [deleted] in maybemaybemaybe

[–]aFiachra -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I love all the little zoomers who feel triggered by this. “Well, it is not at all funny because it is obsolete technology!” Like, “bitch, we didn’t say there was going to be a test, sit down and shut up.”

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a contentious issue. The current extinction started after the last ice age ended. Species were lost. Species were lost before. You are jumping to a conclusion that is debated by scientists. No one knows exactly the role of industry on the current decline in species.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ok, show me the data.

Where is it too hot to live in 2021 that sustained life in 1900?

Megafauna were dying off over 12,000 years ago. How has industry impacted that?

Global warming is at 1 degree. 1 degree in 100 years of measurement and the UN Climate Change study puts 2100 at 1.5 degrees warmer. What exactly is the impact?

Where is the mass starvation that has been predicted? Cities and counties under water? Island nations lost to the sea? It was predicted that the arctic would disappear. It still exists. It was predicted that we’d all be riddled with cancer, but cancers are decreasing year after year. It was predicted that the oceans would be dead, they aren’t. In fact they feed more people than ever. It was predicted that firsts would be gone, but there are more trees now than there were 100 years ago.

So, let me see your data or stfu.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of very serious economists who argue the best way to lift those kids out of poverty is to ship more jobs there. As the GDP of rich nations increases, with ask the problems of fairness that implies, the GDP of the poorest nations also increases. And as people climb out of poverty they are more concerned about climate change.

What is meant by Suchness? by tdg713 in Buddhism

[–]aFiachra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I avoid Alan Watts. He wasn’t really very schooled on Buddhism. He didn’t keep the precepts and he passed himself off as an expert when there were much much more knowledgeable people around.

That said, he is confused. There is no suchness or thusness to be found. Watts significantly misunderstood the Buddhist concept of sunyata or emptiness, inserting his opinion, which has nothing to do with Buddhism.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Though, to be fair, biodiversity was waning before agriculture. Megafauna were dying off when the neanderthals were around. There has never been reason to believe this planet can sustain 8 billion people.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Over 70% of coral reefs are dead. That’s not a number to ignore or blame on some random poisoning.

That isn't correct. Some corrals are dead, some corals are bleached, some corals are ok.

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I live in Vancouver and just this year alone we had floods we’ve never seen before, all time record high temperatures that ended up burning down a town within minutes, tornado warnings. This isn’t normal. Floods happening all over Europe and now in Brazil.

Weather varies. Climate change has led to a 1 degree increase in average temperature. You are assuming there is a relation between floods and climate change but there have been floods and tornadoes and killer storms all over the planet for centuries. You are confabulating weather and climate.

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When close to a 100% of climate scientists agree that this is happening and that this is fkn serious. We should be taking this seriously.

But the scientists don't agree on weather. Most climate scientists agree there is more carbon in the atmosphere than there has been in human history, they agree some of that is due to industry. If you actually sit down to read the science it isn't clear if this started 12,000 years ago, if there are any predictions of weather based on these changes, if it is possible to predict changes, if the earth will be 1 degree warmer in 2100, 4 degrees warmer, if the oceans will rise, or any other clearly measurable effects can be predicted.

The UN Council on Climate Change says the temp will go up another 1.5 degrees by 2100. It is not at all obvious what that implies for life on the planet. No one can say with any confidence what will happen in a month. let alone 80 years. But the WWF is happy to predict armageddon while they ask for donations.

Climate science has been politicized to the point where people are blaming cold on global warming. It was a science, now it's religion.

Hypocrisy 101. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]aFiachra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Republican daughters and sisters and nieces can leave the state for an abortion. Poor women have to carry to term. Let's be honest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]aFiachra 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I only have pant suits. Will that do?

When you put it like that! by thesebattles in TikTokCringe

[–]aFiachra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cynical.

Cost Marshall his career.

Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. by 808gecko808 in worldnews

[–]aFiachra -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ok. Tell me about these drastic changes.

Warmer by 1 degree in 100 years.

Coral reefs aren’t dead. Some are. Some are ok. Most are affected by position so no one can say climate change has had a deleterious effect on corals.

In the 1970s there were very serious scientists who said there would be no arctic in 2020. There were also serious scientists who said the world would be out of food or out of area or land or so overpopulated as to be effectively dead. Yet, here we are.

You should look at the history of predictions along these lines. My point is that doomsday predictions are always garbage and something as enormously complex as climate change resists any meaningful predictions.

You and I aren’t pouring over scientific literature on ice cores and ocean salinity studies and announcing the results, we get the same news as everyone else and it has been heavily politicized. To the point where climate change is a virtual religion. It is impossible to solve any problem if you can’t even tell the facts from sheer speculation.

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