@asg101 I agree we've lost the opportunity and will have to "hunker down". But hearing it from David Suzuki is...hard.

So, how long do we have left?

Hard to say. Tide levels could rise by as much as 3 meters if your mom’s fatAss went in the ocean.

No one knows, many humans and other species are already dying from climate change today. Get used to hearing the phrase “It is happening much faster than expected.” from now on.

This guy says climate change mitigation will be a blip on the radar of economic growth:

My mom is a pile of ashes in an urn. Doubt she could do anything to sea levels.

Guess people better start updating their plans then. No point in starting a family and having kids when they’ll just die to climate change.

Lol yup, trump also went all in on climate denial. Definitely fucked.

I’m curious if we will hit a correctional point when most of life dies off and civilization can restart. I’m picturing some fallout/metro kind of shit where people need to love underground for centuries.

I didn’t know 13 year olds used Lemmy.

“Collapse is a process, not an event.” It’s very likely we’ll be extinct by the end of the century. There will be all manner of hell from now until then. Our population of over 8 billion is only possible because of a highly complex global web of systems. Complex systems are fragile. Once dominos start falling, people will start starving very quickly.

I gave up a long time ago. The last time we really did anything about an issue like this was lead in gasoline. 50+ years of knowing we had to change. I wonder if maybe the wealthy elites know whats coming. I wonder if this new rise in facism is partially an answer to the fact that there won’t be enough of anything to go around. That is why they want us having babies. for soliders. I hope they have some spark of humanity and let people self terminate but I bet you would need money for it.

Let’s be clear about something; climate scientists almost universally agree that there is no such thing as “winning” or “losing” the fight against climate change (Suzuki, for the record, is a zoologist, not a climate scientist). This isn’t a game, there’s no referee, and no one gets a trophy at the end.

The battle against climate change is about mitigating harm. The worse we do, the more harm there will be. But there is never a point where it is “too late”. The car is going to crash, but the sooner you hit the brakes, the less damaging the impact will be. Everything we do to push the needle will save lives. There is never a point where we get to throw up our hands and succumb to the comforting fantasy that it’s “too late” to change anything.

I have a lot of respect for Suzuki, and I don’t blame him for feeling defeated with everything that’s happening, but spreading this kind of message is, dangerous, damaging, and flies entirely in the face of the science.

I’m pretty sure that’s what the grab for Ukraine and Trump’s stated intent to annex Greenland is about. Both of those have the potential to become food security sources after significant global heating. I’m also pretty sure that’s why authoritarians are seizing control of govt (and by extension that govts security services) because there won’t be enough to go around and they’re going to need soldiers to keep the hungry people away from their billionaire breadbaskets.

How to say Marx was right without saying “Marx was right”.

Hard disagree, this is a liberal doing the usual thing. As John Bellamy Foster elaborates on in his articles and books, the fight against climate change isn’t lost, it’s been abandoned by the ruling class of imperial core countries. Look up some of his stuff on Monthly Review the ecological rift is a very important concept that never appears in the kind of discourse you’re posting

Genuinely seen conspiracy theorists say “they removed lead paint to that they can control you with 5g”

If we still had lead gasoline, people would say you can pry it out of their cold dead hands

This is fine

Giving up is exactly where the “too late” come from, quitter shouldn’t be leading climate advocacy.

I mean…the next steps involves lots of fire and death…so…that’s not going to save the environment either but it will certainly send a message.