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

And you know why we’re fucked?

A whole lot of food needs to be pollinated by insects. Those insects have a time when they get out of their eggs in spring. But what if the tree blossoms before the insects are here? No pollination. This means it dies a blossom, never to be turned into food. Continue this for some years and the insects die out, some more and the final plant will die.

It’s always happened, yes, but it’s too fast.

The people will die, the planet recovers.

And what’s a planet if there’s no people to enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey if a bunch of scientists say otherwise then, yah, they know better. But I thought we were basically beyond preventing catastrophic climate disaster?

Also this is the first I'm seeing the big Gritty brain meme format and I love it!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Climate change is not an existential threat. The existential threat is added by science journalism.

Climate change is gonna make life harder, but not kill humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I um, I'm not arguing or anything. Just curious if my comment had something that made you bring up existential threats?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Catastrophic =/= "we all die".

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

I meant more of the dictionary version of catastrophic. Sorry if it normally has or implies different meaning when talking about climate change.

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

The dictionary definition doesn't imply we all die either.

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

O, then what does the equal equal thing mean? Yea I thought major climate catastrophe was unavoidable even with a complete and immediate change by the entire world. Not that everyone would die in a climate apocalypse.

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

It's how people commonly type "does not equal" when they don't have quick access to the not equal symbol. Your top level comment seemed to be contesting the meme, which claimed we still have 20 years to change before we all die. I was saying that 20 years before we all die is not the same as 20 years before a climate catastrophe.

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

Got cha got cha. Thanks. For some reason I thought it meant "about the same".

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

Catastrophic means basically we have to move farmland and we have to surround some cities with dikes as they’ll now be under sea level.

We’re facing ecosystem collapses but that’s from overfishing and more direct habitat destruction, not so much from climate change.

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