You know what would help this situation?
AI
Lots and lots of AI.
Also more religion.
You know what would help this situation?
AI
Lots and lots of AI.
Also more religion.
Conservative politics: apocalypse any% speedrun
I'm from Spain

I didn't know Spain is Middle Earth!!!
This Summer for sure

Mordor In The Middle is my most anticipated new Frankie Muniz project.
Uy.... siempre pueden refugiarse en las ex colonias... digo, aca en argentina todavia safa
Esto esta bien jodido, y con el supuesto niño que se viene, no nos van a quedar dientes
¿Sigue Argentina esperando que la salve el mercado libre?
This is also how I see the movie Idiocracy vs Reality. Reality is plain worse
Helps that Europe is warming faster than the global average. Karma, I guess.
Europe (alongside the USA and other countries of the "western world") has been releasing disgusting amounts of climate change-inducing gases since the 18th century, and they (alongside the USA) were the main profiteers of climate pollution until the latter half of the 20th century. Arguably still are, though other countries like China and Brazil also play a part now.
Granted, this treats nations as monoliths, it's not like the population of most countries really had a choice for the most part.
In context: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?time=earliest..2024
Per capita Europe is close to world average. Your comment makes no sense.
(I'm a bit harsh)
Nice of you to side-track with current emissions (per capita even), and not cumulative historical emissions, which were actually mentioned.

Feel free to compare different countries yourself: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics (I'm not sure why ourworldindata doesn't just put all of this on one page instead of splitting it up. It's always a hassle to find the right one it even is on the same page, I just didn't look close enough) The more interesting comparison might be high-income vs low-income countries.
To get back to the discussion: Yes, Europes share is not as huge as it used to be, and it's getting lower, but what can be seen from @Tehdastehdas@piefed.social graph is that that's less due to Europe behaving better and rather due to other countries polluting more. Not a good argument for saying "Europe is doing better now"
Right now, yes, but for the vast majority of history it wasn't even close. Your link shows that China only met the EU's per capita emissions in 2013, when climate change was already pretty far along. And they are still profiting from their past emissions via the wealth and societal development that they generated back then.
Yet those most affected by heatwaves are elderly and chronically ill people who can‘t afford proper cooling technology.
It‘s not hurting those in power, it‘s hurting those already marginalised.
What do you mean by karma? Europe is doing the most to stop global warming.
Source? Not to say they aren't putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It's just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it's no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They're also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they're showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I'm curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
China is polluting because they produce the European and American stuff over there. On their own they'd still pollute but much less.
There are probably still plenty of people knocking about that will tell you “China is building a coal fired power plant per week”.
Data centers are fast tracking climate change
Don't blame everything on the data centers. Everything else is doing its part in contributing to climate change.
Apart from that data centers, at the scale at which we seem them pop up now, are way too young to have a considerable effect on the current heat wave. Which doesn't mean that they won't in the future. Climate change is, after all, a decades long project
Its a millennia long project.
This is another reason why geoengineering is such a bad idea. Even if you stumble onto something that works without killing everyone, you have to consistently do it for many centuries.
That bottom image is, like, the most aggressively chic weather forecast I've ever seen.
"I feel better!"
"Shutup, you're dead."
cat in background, being swung, yowling
"Actually, might go for a walk."
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