|
2nd May 2022, 00:05 | #1 | |
|
Sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in New Zealand
https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/...hought_in_new/
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
2nd May 2022, 00:18 | #2 |
|
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
2nd May 2022, 17:19 | #3 |
|
What I am waiting to see is what the number of mass causalities in a single event or set of events that shocks the world is.
We already get thousands of deaths at a time in single regions, so that's obviously not enough. I think a billion at once would be massively disturbing. So somewhere in between is a figure that would evoke a collective "oh fuck". Given the way India is looking, I don't think we're far off from finding out what that number is.
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
2nd May 2022, 17:35 | #4 |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
Kudos Lightspeed, I knew about this as a story because of this thread - THEN I started seeing it elsewhere.
Have you read David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth yet? Rising sea levels in NZ is going to be an inconvenience for most people. Some coastal roads and beach properties are going to take damage every winter. In somewhere like Bangladesh, that's millions of deaths. In the Pacific Islands, that's nations gone, Waterworld style. In India and Pakistan and places near the centres of large landmasses, people are just going to drop dead in the street from heat stress. |
2nd May 2022, 17:36 | #5 | |
|
Quote:
Cyber attack hits website showing projected sea level rise |
|
2nd May 2022, 18:03 | #6 |
|
These billions person problems really feel like democracy and capitalism are two things we are going to have to overcome to solve them. “For the good of humanity” doesn’t really enter the dialogue if it can’t be solved this fiscal year or this administration.
__________________
ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ |
2nd May 2022, 18:29 | #7 |
HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE
|
What's awkward is that even if sea levels aren't rising (climate change mission accomplished), the fact the land is sinking at the same rate, means it's just a shitty place to live. Shouldn't have added that part, because now I just don't care.
Having lived in Eastbourne, that road is already fucked and gets flooded regularly. It's barely above sea level, so tides are enough to cause trouble.
__________________
Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand... |
3rd May 2022, 07:14 | #8 | |
|
Quote:
Somewhere along the way, we have to find an offramp that actually leads to the people having the power, not just the 1%. We have to appoint politicians who will actually enforce climate action, not just promise it then negotiate it away. |
|
3rd May 2022, 11:51 | #9 |
|
Ever see that thing where thousands of people log in and try to crowd control a cloud-enabled game of Pokemon by typing controller buttons into a chat window?
That's democracy. It's no wonder it can't accomplish anything. Edit: This - https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/17/5...sourced-gaming Last edited by _indigo1 : 3rd May 2022 at 11:53. |
3rd May 2022, 12:49 | #10 |
|
I get what you're saying, but no, that's anarchy. Democracy in and of itself is benign and beneficial, it's what society does with it that's problematic. Success is where we direct control, unfortunately we have paired success with financial security. Despite all the tired motivational posters, money does buy happiness and poverty is depressing. That's not to say it's impossible to be happy without it, but it sure helps.
|
3rd May 2022, 13:12 | #11 |
|
Incorrect.
The example is democracy because everyone has equal input but the rules of the game are well defined and executed by a representative (the game character) Anarchy would be if the game *had* no rules and there were no standard commands to type into chat. As if each person in the chat had a character in the game world simultaneously. But that's irrelevant. What is relevant is I was making the point that democracy is directionless on all but the smallest timescales and therefore incapable of tackling problems that scale in time. It can literally go in circles or stand in the corner and jump repeatedly just as a crowd controlled game character does when looked at on the wider timescale. I mean - this is not really news though. Just depressing. Last edited by _indigo1 : 3rd May 2022 at 13:15. |
3rd May 2022, 14:06 | #12 |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
Someone should make a movie about this stuff, but make it about a different disaster so we can pretend it's "fictional", like an imminent comet impact or something
|
4th May 2022, 18:02 | #13 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
4th May 2022, 19:25 | #14 |
|
Honestly sometimes I envy the unifying clarity of purpose of a (popular) dictator.
I mean - not all the other stuff that comes with it - but the thought of a nation united under a goal is powerful. Once we're done replacing all GP's with AI, I think government is next. |
4th May 2022, 19:40 | #15 |
|
Putin's popular.
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
4th May 2022, 20:04 | #16 |
|
Sure, and imagine the comfort and unity felt among those who buy into his picture of the world and choice and justification of actions.
|
20th May 2022, 22:21 | #17 |
|
This will be the new normal before too long, we're gonna have to change up the crops we're accustomed to:
Levin storm 'will have effect on national supplies'
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
19th June 2022, 17:46 | #18 | |
|
Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
21st June 2022, 19:51 | #19 |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
|
22nd June 2022, 09:25 | #21 |
Stuff
|
👍
__________________
My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. |
23rd June 2022, 21:31 | #22 |
|
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
11th August 2022, 22:39 | #23 | |
|
Satellite imagery shows Antarctic ice shelf crumbling faster than thought
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
29th August 2022, 12:09 | #24 |
|
Extreme China heatwave could lead to global chaos and food shortages
I always thought things would turn to shit further down the track but it's looking more like it's gonna get really bad sooner.
__________________
Protecting your peace is way more important than proving your point. Some people aren't open to cultivating their views. Just let them be wrong. |
29th August 2022, 12:59 | #25 |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
The scales of the Pakistan floods and the China drought are mind-fuckingly staggering. They're just not top-of-mind for us because for the first it's meh, poor brown people, and for the second the Communist Party of China is trying hard to restrict news coverage that makes China look bad.
Historically these things tend to happen in order in China: drought, famine, regime collapse. The last doesn't always happen, but it has happened enough times to have me paying attention. |
29th August 2022, 14:52 | #26 |
Architeuthis
|
Shit really seems to be escalating a lot faster than expected. Maybe we're discovering the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
|
29th August 2022, 15:57 | #27 |
|
I don't think any state force is stronger than the human impulse to migrate.
In Pakistan that's what's happening, whole communities have lost all their equity, there's no state involvement, so they're leaving. In China the state is highly involved, but how able and willing will they be to prevent people abandoning regions clearly no longer viable for habitation? And that's now. What does it look like the next time El Nino swings around again? But hey, it can't be that bad I'm getting YouTube ads to go into debt for international travel. That sounds like the kind of thing appropriate for times of abundance, which I guess this must be.
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
29th August 2022, 16:53 | #28 | |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
Quote:
|
|
29th August 2022, 17:03 | #29 |
|
The equivalent circumstances would be the Holodomor. But in those times the furtherest people could travel was only as far as another starving community.
I guess China has the capacity to strangle off internal regions, but does it have the political capital? It couldn't hide it.
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
30th August 2022, 13:36 | #30 | |
Stuff
|
Quote:
Previous rulers have scoffed in the face of nuclear threat. Google for Mao Zedong war quote. They literally don’t care for the loss of lives. The people themselves are hard cunts having suffered as such in the past.
__________________
My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. |
|
31st October 2022, 12:43 | #31 | |
|
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
20th February 2023, 14:43 | #32 |
|
This is what we've got to prepare ourselves for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISp6d4a9Suk Crazy footage.
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
31st August 2023, 01:57 | #33 |
|
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
15th September 2023, 17:45 | #34 |
|
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
26th September 2023, 11:50 | #35 | |
|
200 glaciers vanish in Southern Alps as ocean temperatures rise
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
4th October 2023, 01:26 | #36 | |
|
Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice 'drops off a cliff'
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
4th October 2023, 08:14 | #37 |
*flex*
|
^^ dude at work came in this morning and said the same.
7-10 new zealands worth of sea ice, wow |
8th October 2023, 23:07 | #38 | |
|
This isn't climate change, but it's still spooks:
Buried 'reservoir' found off NZ coast where there's a 1 in 4 chance of megaquake Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
3rd February 2024, 13:24 | #39 | |
|
Nearly 1000 fur seals found dead in Kaikōura in five months
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|
11th February 2024, 13:13 | #40 | |
|
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Quote:
__________________
Stay shook. No sook. |
|