I'm going to try not to ramble and get straight to the point; I think it is now almost certain that we will experience catastrophic climate change within the century. Believe it or don't believe it; agree or don't agree; is it really going to make much difference?
In the spoiler is a video by Jason Unruhe (of Maoist Rebel News). It is a response to a study which deals with the probable failure of efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change. I know the politics may be off putting or not to your taste, but he has expressed probably better than I can in a thread the level of frustration, fear, anger and incomprehension I now feel and have been trying to process for some time.
For those who want to read the Full Study for yourself the link is here. I have read it and, in its essentials, it is as bad as the video suggests: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
This is obviously not the "mainstream media" and doesn't carry either the weight or credibility of sources we trust but essentially it is probably a matter of time before someone actually "calls it" and says that we have gone beyond the point of no return. There is plenty of materials out there if you want to put everything together. Mark Lynas' book "Six Degrees" would be a good place to start and the video below deals with some of the same material (which are also summarised here). Honestly, read the book, share it and think on it. The video doesn't do it justice and the experience of reading gives time to let things sink in better.
As a non-scientist, I have tried to keep up with the research on climate change and I'm at the point where this is "enough" for me to confirm what I had already begun to suspect after Trumps' election and the announcement of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in 2017. According to a report by the International Panel on Climate Change, we now have 12 years to avert climate change of 1.5'C and would have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. Given the level of political dysfunction that now passes for daily news headlines, I think the facts indicate it should be no longer controversial to argue that is an extremely remote possibility. This is not simply the failure of one individual, one party or one country, but that there has been and is now a global systematic failure to address real threats facing the world. However we got here and whoever got us here, I think we are now beyond the point of no return.
I don't have a point to this thread and yet still reluctant to post it because "saying it" makes it more real somehow. Maybe sharing this will help people go over things and help re-evaluate and something better will come out of reflection. We can hope. Maybe go and spend time with friends, family members and loved ones (or treasured pets who can be great therapy to be around). we need each other and when all is said and done, whatever possessions, status symbols, power, money, labels or identities we throw around and pretend they are important- its the people around us who we rely on and who make us who we are. I find myself thinking that hopefully we will learn how to have a different kind of conversation as time moves on but I don't know really where to start. I don't know where things go from here. I just know I have to start somewhere...
What even can be said?
In the spoiler is a video by Jason Unruhe (of Maoist Rebel News). It is a response to a study which deals with the probable failure of efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change. I know the politics may be off putting or not to your taste, but he has expressed probably better than I can in a thread the level of frustration, fear, anger and incomprehension I now feel and have been trying to process for some time.
For those who want to read the Full Study for yourself the link is here. I have read it and, in its essentials, it is as bad as the video suggests: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
This is obviously not the "mainstream media" and doesn't carry either the weight or credibility of sources we trust but essentially it is probably a matter of time before someone actually "calls it" and says that we have gone beyond the point of no return. There is plenty of materials out there if you want to put everything together. Mark Lynas' book "Six Degrees" would be a good place to start and the video below deals with some of the same material (which are also summarised here). Honestly, read the book, share it and think on it. The video doesn't do it justice and the experience of reading gives time to let things sink in better.
As a non-scientist, I have tried to keep up with the research on climate change and I'm at the point where this is "enough" for me to confirm what I had already begun to suspect after Trumps' election and the announcement of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in 2017. According to a report by the International Panel on Climate Change, we now have 12 years to avert climate change of 1.5'C and would have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. Given the level of political dysfunction that now passes for daily news headlines, I think the facts indicate it should be no longer controversial to argue that is an extremely remote possibility. This is not simply the failure of one individual, one party or one country, but that there has been and is now a global systematic failure to address real threats facing the world. However we got here and whoever got us here, I think we are now beyond the point of no return.
I don't have a point to this thread and yet still reluctant to post it because "saying it" makes it more real somehow. Maybe sharing this will help people go over things and help re-evaluate and something better will come out of reflection. We can hope. Maybe go and spend time with friends, family members and loved ones (or treasured pets who can be great therapy to be around). we need each other and when all is said and done, whatever possessions, status symbols, power, money, labels or identities we throw around and pretend they are important- its the people around us who we rely on and who make us who we are. I find myself thinking that hopefully we will learn how to have a different kind of conversation as time moves on but I don't know really where to start. I don't know where things go from here. I just know I have to start somewhere...
What even can be said?
