Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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record low Arctic sea ice extent, but the extreme is in sea ice volume. https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php
7000km^3 lower than just 2004-2013 average. Just a normal summer will set big record low next fall, potentially with blue ocean at north pole, and likely further record lows next winter.
Low ice extent is driven primarily by hot summer arctic ocean that is fed by early springs of last year. Air temperatures are not of extreme record warmth.
eyup. started in the twentyteens
Thank you, I was wondering about that, yes!? 😄
On a more serious note, I suspect that this is a part of the reason why we are seeing democracies failing all across the globe - the general populace is too selfish and short-sighted to do anything about what is coming, thus paving the way for people willing to make hard calls (even if at first they seem to be ignoring the climate situation, nonetheless what they pave the way to open up to likely seems like it could be gaining support due to this impending doom scenario looming over the horizon).
Ecofascism, like fascism, is a dead end. They just accelerate the destruction. The climate is global, nobody is going to escape climate chaos while remaining on this planet.
I don't disagree with you, but the point is to not make more excuses for them. They need excuses because fascists hide monstrous intentions behind great PR. Don't do their work for them.
A lot of the people being voted in will just create bunkers for themselves to survive a cataclysm and leave the rest of us to die.
People are being more selfish than usual because they have internet algorithms that will tell them that they're in the right. The internet has made people incredibly spiteful. To the point they're willing to screw themselves over to make things worse for someone else.
Bunkers are a scam. They're fine for some occasional wildfire or flood, but not for climate chaos and all the damage that will do to society. Having a bunker just means you die later, perhaps after you eat your bunker mates, or they eat you. It's not like they'll "repopulate" after, climate change is going to go on long after 2100 and these inbred clowns will just inbreed more until they die off.
This is a horrible horrible horrible take
You can make a good argument that is how Carter lost to Reagan.
I don't doubt this is whats behind at least a few ethno-state ideologues.
MMW over the next 10 years we'll see a rise in eco-facism.
I mean if the people in charge aren’t trying to save us … guess we will have to one way or the other