Microblog Memes

We’re trapped on a burning planet with superstitious dictators committing holocausts in broad daylight and there are forum mods/admins who find it within themselves to stop you from advocating online to ixnay a few fascists or billionaires

Maybe this is just my media bubble, and I’m not saying I haven’t seen any articles about it, but I feel like remarkably little attention overall is being given to how many fucking people are dying in these heat disasters. Not just this one, but over and over.

"ignore it until you can't anymore"

Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.

I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.

We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.

Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.

Bordeaux today: 43°C feel like: 49°C

"We've survived record-breaking high temperatures before, we'll survive them again"

(based on an actual quote from GB News, a Fox News wannabe)

I work with a lot of conservatives (the American kind that deny anthropological climate change and anti-vax/mask). They aren’t ignoring it anymore - though there are plenty that do because stupid. They’re just handwaving it away as some natural cycle of the sun and “there’s nothing we can do about it.”

They just engage in whatever mental gymnastics that avoids the thousands of years of collective scientific knowledge and analysis that says they’re wrong so they won’t a) get the stink of being a liberal tree-hugger on them, b) be inconvenienced by any required effort or sacrifice on their part to help mitigate it, c) have to pay a single cent for it.

Nah but we're getting rid of the NASA satellites that monitor this so we won't see climate change anymore

50.5 C is 123 F
41.8 C is 107 F

edit : downvotes, really ? For helping people who are used to another scale??

"It's only going to get worse."

That's the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren't intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.

It's looking more and more like we're a failed experiment.

Meanwhile, OPEC and one of the most dangerous countries in the world: "Drill, baby, drill! Burn, baby, burn!"

I'm surprised there has been so little ecoterrorism in response to climate change.

"Global warming" was always a weak formulation of the problem, and "climate change" is even weaker. I prefer "Anthropogenic runaway global heating" which has the handy acronym ARGH.

Krakatoa dropped the global temperature by a degree for several years. All we need is multiple Krakatoa scale eruptions to solve this problem forever!

/S

People are disenfrenchised. Why should they care more about the weather than the medical system, corruption, wild animals or all the other problems. People know, they are just trained to not get involved.

Showing the problem trains them to ignore it more. What they need is confidence in their own abilities.

Welp. Good thing I’m gonna die.

Work from home, buy less stuff, eat less meat, and most importantly throw all billionaires feet first into a wood chipper.

The problem is real. the past few years it's been raining as much as snowing during polar night in northern Norway.

It's not that I don't pay attention or try to conserve energy, but I'm so powerless to affect real change. It kills me to be raising children in this world.

I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I'm tired of being reminded of this ten times over when I feel the most powerless to stop it than I've ever felt in my life. Now more than ever, all I see is a neighboring government undoing the little progress that we've made in the past decades I've spent worrying. I no longer see the way out like I used to. This only makes me feel miserable.

If they posted the temperature in Farenheit maybe they could get Americans on board

Currently slacking off at work because, why work when we're quite literally cooked?

If we destroy enough satellites, it'll all go away. Believe me!