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Preliminary data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss (public.wmo.int)
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The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data. It follows the hottest June on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and record low Antarctic sea ice extent.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Our rulers are hell-bent on killing off the majority of life on this planet, including our species. Can't help but wonder if people will ever wake up and do the obvious.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Only when profits fall, as a result.

    The thing is that nobody has worked out how to make climate action profitable. Or at least not profitable in the short term.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    That’s simply not true, there are a bunch of companies that focus on sustainability that use it as their main business model. Sustainability is profitable in many cases. Look at how well solar panels sell for example, good luck finding a contractor that can place them in the next couple of months (they are all booked).

    The main issue is that companies with old business models, that cannot easily change, hold the majority of the power. Look at for instance Shell, they are not really making a switch and are still actively polluting villages in Africa to pump their oil.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The majority of life ? lmao, nope

    The current world average temperature is around 14-15°C.

    During the Cambrian explosion, where the amount of different lifeforms on earth increased dramatically, it was 20-25°C.

    And we're not even going to die off anyway. Some currently populated areas are just going to get depopulated real fast, that's all. And we're going to build new cities in different places that were too cold for us before, or maybe underground. Some lifeforms will die off because they were too fragile, others will appear and thrive. Same as it's always happened.

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