Climate Crisis: Louisiana, Bill Nye, & Record Temperatures

[calinewarkwc69]

Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait

July wasn’t just hot - it was the hottest month ever recorded, according to NASA. And this year is likely to be the hottest year on record.Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have occurred since 2000, as heat waves have become more frequent, more intense and longer lasting. A study in the journal Nature Climate Change

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[pairatime]

Sadly it's unlikely anything will be done on a large enough scale to matter until the Republicans lose their grip on state governments. And then unless it's a global effort it still might not matter.

[sugartitty]

Honestly I think we've already doomed ourselves, unless someone can figure out a way to convert massive amounts of greenhouse gasses into money. No one seems ready to commit to huge global changes necessary to halt climate change. We're such greedy capitalist pigs that we're fine with destroying our planet and entire species as long as we die rich.

[pairatime]

Honestly it's not about capitalist anything, it's about being inconvenienced. Even when it's free people don't always take action. My city had free recycling. You pay for the trash can (bigger cans cost more) but you can have as many yard waste and recycling cans (paid for by the city you just ask for them) as you want no charge and yet every year they still report that about 20-30% of the trash they haul (the trash we pay for them to haul) could have been recycled (meaning you could have a smaller can and pay less) because some people are too lazy to throw it in a different bin.

So while yes some of it comes down to cost a lot of it comes down to the general population not giving a crap so why should the government and until that changes on a meaningful scale the rest is just a losing rearguard action.

[inkstainedlips]

Climate change is so scary and there's nothing the average person can do.

[calinewarkwc69]

There's plenty the average person can do, we just have to do it together.

For example, recycling & composting is like the bare minimum we can ALL do rather easily. Landfills consist of so much stuff that can be recycled, reused, or composted, but instead it goes into a trash heap that ends up emitting so much fucking methane into the air. They have an entire waste management authority where I live which is basically the "recycling police" but truly, it's one thing we can all do that would have an almost near immediate impact.

[robi0688]

Of course we should make it as easy as possible, but I live in a city where they adjust for people's lazy tendencies by funneling money into a better waste management system. I know multiple people who spent their community service hours sorting garbage, and the city has its own compost system. Which they convert into biofuel that can be sold. Ideally people would sort their own stuff, but there's always going to be those that don't find it necessary.

[layweed]

That's okay since we'll all be dead and it'll be their problem haha sucks to be you right.

[moonbladem]

I pay my utilities in person and early this month the lady warned me that my next bill was going to be about $220.00. My usual bill comes to about $130.00 during the summer. Now, GOP fucktards, tell me again how climate change is a hoax? That scientists are "alarmists"? Because yeah, the melting polar ice caps have nothing at all to do with rising sea levels, which are causing the residents of Shishmaref, Alaska to relocate.

Also. people like James Inhofe, I'd love to smack upside of his head. That whole snow ball thing was just stupid and ignorant.

[jeeelim5]

I was so shocked when I lived in DC a couple of years ago and saw the lack of care when it came to the environment. We were only obligated to sort cardboard and glass for recycling at our building and that was it.

In Korea, there are about 10 categories of recyclable material that you have to sort out for a designated recycling day, and you have to throw out food waste separately.

We also have a public transportation day once a month, the city is actively trying to switch its buses to run on eco-friendly fuels alongside other green initiatives and shops gets fined if they keep doors open with the AC on.

I think it's mostly because of necessity (97% of Korea's energy is imported) but it sickens me that America has the biggest carbon footprint in the world and yet its politicians cry like babies and scream about national sovereignty!!!! when asked to step up and be responsible. Like, go sit on a cactus.