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:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I need the rest of the world to realize the US has quietly COMPLETELY given up on mitigating climate change since AI. I mean WORSE than given up.
Centrists and liberals NEVER talk about it politically anymore, climate change is just accepted as a random form of punishment from God/The Rich.
The US is a rogue state.
It’s really frustrating. I live in South Louisiana. Even my most conservative relatives know climate change is real. We can fucking see it happening and if you don’t, your insurance company does. Even oil rig construction companies were getting offshore wind construction contracts because we have loads of expertise in offshore construction projects. We had the first “climate refugees” in the U.S. that had to relocate.
And people outside of New Orleans and Baton Rouge still voted for Trump. Connect the dots, motherfuckers.
I literally had some yuppie liberals once tell me as I was doing the stakeout for their house working for a Land Surveyor "well, we were going to get solar panels, but honestly who cares we did good for the world and we don't have much time left anyways we aren't going to be around for climate change!", they said this to me after having a conversation about how I was a young person from the area excited about their future.
100% it was the most yuppie liberal thing ever in the sense that they acted completely morally superior to me (they were successful people with a career, I was a glorified day laborer) while spitting in my face like oblivious selfish children and somehow being completely unaware of it even when my face was covered in their vile hacked up nonsense.
"Fuck you I got mine" is the mantra of upper middle class US, and it lulls itself into a warm stupor by telling the lie over and over again that because they care about social issues it must mean the structures around them are as just and functioning despite the fact that people are dying in the streets everywhere, living and not living proof of a devastating lie.
Burn neoliberalism with fire, it is the only way we can survive.
Fellow South Louisiana person on Lemmy!
As a European in The Netherlands we seem to have accepted AI as unstoppable “progress” it’s disgusting.
Majority of people just do not give a shit about the issues around it. They just go "hur dur, Pandora's Box, it's already out the bag, market forces means it's gonna stay"
Fucking just another instance of "capitalist realism" as if the rules of capitalist markets are immutable concepts of nature and not the conscious decisions of greedy, small-minded suits who don't care about the people they know will suffer because of this.