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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A toast to everyone in this thread that decided to not have kids! 🥂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never create and subject a human being to the world our negligence has created.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

About 15 years ago I was going somewhere with my family. Stepmom and I were talking about Climate Change then, how if things didn’t change that massive starvation was likely, that crazed weather would be irreversible, etc. and she noticed that my 10 year old niece’s eyes were getting huge. She was genuinely disturbed by the conversation and began to say is this really going to happen? Before I could plainly reply my stepmom reassured her that no, things were going to be fine, and we changed the subject.

Niece is in mid twenties now and subject to the reality of the situation as it slowly unfolds, like an asteroid headed toward the earth at 5 mph. The future is dreadful to her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

a toast to everyone in this thread that will be burnt to toast because unchecked greed and capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's great to know we'll die off!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be painful for us as a species. I don't think it will render us extinct, but the weather will get significantly worse and we will probably see widespread coastal flooding in this century, which will lead to hundreds of millions of refugees. We still have plenty of time to prepare and to change course, but I fear that we will wait until a global crisis is on our doorstep before we make serious changes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it will render us extinct.

Oh, it probably will, though the memory of us may live on after that.

In fact, arguably it happened long ago, and we're currently in an echo of the past in a very immersive history lesson simultaneously teaching the grandeur and folly of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was planning on dying one day anyway. Whether it’s from cancer or needing to eat my own neighbor for survival, it’s all the same at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deep down, it's wild to know that humanity's peak was ultimately undone by less than 1% of the population convincing everyone else that greed is good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This summer is the coolest summer you'll experience in the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"sooner than expected", "tipping point", "nonbinding resolution", "climate scientists warn"

Everything is fine...