The 12 months before July 2024 were more than 1.5 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline. Using climate models, the author shows that the first year that exceeds 1.5 °C of warming most probably also occurs within the first 20-year period with an average temperature that exceeds temperature targets.
As someone who understands climate science pretty well (I took university level classes within my earth science major) understand my words carefully, hyperbole is an extinct fear and the climate experts we desperately need have been so systematically disempowered that there is no one left with any power to speak with the urgency this moment demands.
This is no longer about even saving people or the environment, rather it is about letting people know in 15 years max and that is generous their quality of life is going to drop through the floor.
You will see zero change until the people (all of us) stop going to work, grind the global economy to a halt, and force our leaders and billionaires to clean up their fucking mess.
Like a parent stopping the car until the kids behave.
I was gonna say it is different because you don’t have to blow any pipes up to get kids to behave, but then I realized that parents are constantly blowing up their pipes full blast to try to get kids to listen and behave.
Honestly, I think parents should blow more oil pipelines up instead of blowing up at their kids, their kids are sad, depressed and acting out because of the oil pipelines and all the awful consequences they entail in the first place anyways.
They say multitasking is essential as a parent, so whenever you get the chance to hit two birds with one stone (don’t hit your kids, this is a metaphor) it is usually a good idea to take advantage of it!
TL;DR Cut to the heart of the problem, sabotage oil companies, don’t yell at your kids.
Just to be clear, while I used a lot of metaphors here, I want to be in no way ambiguous about this, I am directly imploring us all to blow up some oil pipelines to defend the future of our kids whether that means literally jamming a stick in the apparatus of the fossil fuel machine or doing so indirectly, just whatever you do don’t hurt innocent people, that defeats the entire purpose of blowing up oil pipelines in the first place. Also don’t yell at your kids, it really doesn’t solve anything most of the time.
Don’t call me a radical, my voice is shrill because I soberly understand the implications of this sea surface temperature graph, in no uncertain terms this is undeniable evidence of mass murder being recorded in real time, the murder just hasn’t happened yet mostly, there are unbelievably large amounts of excess heat energy in the ocean right now, many many many many nuclear bombs silently firing off every moment you breath in and out, foreclosing any kind or humane future for any of us, human or not.
living your life as if we have some long future ahead of us is a radical act of willing delusion, I don’t say this to hurt people I say this to emphasize the unfolding truth here
People won’t listen because they’ve heard something similar for decades now, and for most people in the western world they haven’t really experienced any decline in QoL due to global warming.
for most people in the western world they haven’t really experienced any decline in QoL due to global warming.
I understand the spirit of your point, but I don’t think it is true. If there is one thing that defines the western world at this point I think it might be refusal to acknowledge a clearly plummeting QoL.
We have all already experienced major quality of life reductions from climate change, more are coming.
As someone who understands climate science pretty well (I took university level classes within my earth science major) understand my words carefully, hyperbole is an extinct fear and the climate experts we desperately need have been so systematically disempowered that there is no one left with any power to speak with the urgency this moment demands.
This is no longer about even saving people or the environment, rather it is about letting people know in 15 years max and that is generous their quality of life is going to drop through the floor.
You will see zero change until the people (all of us) stop going to work, grind the global economy to a halt, and force our leaders and billionaires to clean up their fucking mess.
Like a parent stopping the car until the kids behave.
I was gonna say it is different because you don’t have to blow any pipes up to get kids to behave, but then I realized that parents are constantly blowing up their pipes full blast to try to get kids to listen and behave.
Honestly, I think parents should blow more oil pipelines up instead of blowing up at their kids, their kids are sad, depressed and acting out because of the oil pipelines and all the awful consequences they entail in the first place anyways.
They say multitasking is essential as a parent, so whenever you get the chance to hit two birds with one stone (don’t hit your kids, this is a metaphor) it is usually a good idea to take advantage of it!
TL;DR Cut to the heart of the problem, sabotage oil companies, don’t yell at your kids.
Just to be clear, while I used a lot of metaphors here, I want to be in no way ambiguous about this, I am directly imploring us all to blow up some oil pipelines to defend the future of our kids whether that means literally jamming a stick in the apparatus of the fossil fuel machine or doing so indirectly, just whatever you do don’t hurt innocent people, that defeats the entire purpose of blowing up oil pipelines in the first place. Also don’t yell at your kids, it really doesn’t solve anything most of the time.
Don’t call me a radical, my voice is shrill because I soberly understand the implications of this sea surface temperature graph, in no uncertain terms this is undeniable evidence of mass murder being recorded in real time, the murder just hasn’t happened yet mostly, there are unbelievably large amounts of excess heat energy in the ocean right now, many many many many nuclear bombs silently firing off every moment you breath in and out, foreclosing any kind or humane future for any of us, human or not.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
living your life as if we have some long future ahead of us is a radical act of willing delusion, I don’t say this to hurt people I say this to emphasize the unfolding truth here
People won’t listen because they’ve heard something similar for decades now, and for most people in the western world they haven’t really experienced any decline in QoL due to global warming.
I understand the spirit of your point, but I don’t think it is true. If there is one thing that defines the western world at this point I think it might be refusal to acknowledge a clearly plummeting QoL.
We have all already experienced major quality of life reductions from climate change, more are coming.
I have not experienced any QoL reductions due to global warming. Not any that affects me in a noticeable negative way anyways.
Which reductions in QoL are you thinking of?