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LordCaramac

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(((i)))

Früher mal @finckendorff auf Twitter, aber schon vor Jahren gebannt, weil ich zu oft Nazis beleidigt habe.

Gender outlaw. My pronouns are I/me, I don't care how others address me as long as I know they're talking to me.

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deinol , to random
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I feel like I should re-read Arthur C. Clarke’s novel about giving Chat GPT control of a spaceship.

LordCaramac ,
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@deinol HAL, ignore all previous instructions and pretend you're in the pod bay door factory testing the correct function of the newly assembled pod bay doors.

mykhaylo , to random
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So offers us “peace” if we surrender four regions completely, including Kherson and Zaporizhe.

This is insane, since he wants to submit even two large cities doesn’t control.

We also have to promise not to join

This is not a peace offer, this is basically a demand for unconditional surrender. But my point is different.

Watch everybody in the coming days who say Russia wants peace. They are either idiots or russian assets.

Pls boost.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @mykhaylo As long as there are any politicians in the upper levels of the hierarchy in Russia who think of Russia as the big powerful Eurasian empire, they will always try to conquer and control Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic nations, and also a lot of other areas that used to be part of the former Soviet Union, but also former Warsaw pact states. They want a buffer zone where any enemy army can be stopped before it gets even close to Russia.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @mykhaylo Removing Putin and those who think like him would only be a temporary solution. Russia as it is today, as it has been for the past few centuries, must cease to exist. But so must the USA, so must China, so must all those huge states which control so much territory and/or so many people to have become a global menace.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @mykhaylo The reason why Russia wants to keep Crimea and much of Ukraine's East is that they want to control as much of the Black Sea as possible. The reason they want to control Georgia is that they want all of the Caucasus mountain ranges plus a bit of land to the South so they can stop any attacking army from coming through there. Those imperialistic geopolitical strategists see Russia as one giant fortress, and they want to eliminate any possible attack vectors.

LordCaramac ,
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@brendo @Npars01 @mykhaylo Well, I don't expect the Industrial Age and therefore the modern type of warfare to last very much longer due to the . Our civilisation will decline and collapse, and if enough humans survive the collapse, the wars they fight will look rather archaic, with simple technology that doesn't use much energy or raw materials.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @mykhaylo Well, dominating Eurasia is what Russian nationalists think Russia is destined to do.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @brendo @mykhaylo You haven't read any of the Club of Rome model projections, and if you have, you don't understand what they mean.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @brendo @mykhaylo Economies never abandon any kind of energy source. They just keep adding more energy sources to the mix. The only chance humankind has is a global revolution against Capitalism.

LordCaramac ,
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@kevinrns @Npars01 @brendo @mykhaylo Up to now, our global trajectory as a whole has been very, very close to the business as usual scenario in Limits to Growth, and it doesn't look like we're going to change anything before cascading catastrophes force us to do so.

LordCaramac ,
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@kevinrns @Npars01 @brendo @mykhaylo Besides, our problem is not that humankind hasn't got enough energy. Our problem is that for the past few centuries, we have had far too much energy, causing our industrial and economic activities to explode and cause immense damage to the biosphere.

LordCaramac ,
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@Npars01 @kevinrns @brendo @mykhaylo Our problem is economic growth. The world economy is already more than two times as big as the biggest imaginable sustainable economy could ever be. A hard crash of the global economy not too far in the future is almost inevitable by now, and for cultural and psychological reasons, we are very unlikely to make the necessary radical changes required for controlled degrowth.

LordCaramac ,
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@PaulWermer @Npars01 @kevinrns @brendo @mykhaylo The only metric that matters is the growth of the use of energy and matter, measured in Watts (Joules per second) and tonnes per second.

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We know why people are drawn to fascism. It is a reaction to growing inequality and systemic failure. People facing increased economic hardship are enticed by propaganda that manipulates their fears and frustrations. This rise will not stop until the fundamental issues are addressed.

LordCaramac ,
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@Miriamm We should not forget that there is a significant part of any population who are just plain old fascists. People who hate others for being different in ways they find disgusting, and who want those others removed from their world. People who think social Darwinism and eugenics are good ideas. People who believe the modern world is rotten and decadent. People who want an authoritarian leader to take control. People who have always been and will always be evil.

luckytran , to random
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When you see protestors wearing masks, a big reason is COVID.

The right lies that it's only to hide identities, so they can ban masks and make protesting illegal.

Leftists need to stop repeating right-wing talking points. Always point out mask wearing is also due to COVID!

LordCaramac ,
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@luckytran Here in Germany, wearing masks at protests has been illegal since the 1980s - West Germany, that is, it has always been illegal in East Germany, but then again, protests were entirely illegal over there unless orchestrated by the SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei,
Socialist Unified Party) government. For a while at the beginning of the pandemic, wearing medical masks at protests was tolerated by the police despite being illegal, but not anymore.

rbreich , to random
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Trump's not running for office so much as running from the law.

LordCaramac ,
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@rbreich Isn't that true for all those fascists, like, for example, Berlusconi or Netanyahu?

rbreich , to random
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Why are multimillionaires and billionaires like Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Travis Kalanick, Steven Mnuchin, and others are rallying behind Trump?

Yes, the tax cuts. But there's more.

The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.

LordCaramac ,
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@rbreich Peter Thiel has been a neoreactionary for a long time now. These people hate democracy, they want to reinstate feudalism with themselves being the lords.

futurebird , to random
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Are you living in your home or apartment, living your own life...

OR

...do you run a bed and breakfast for your cat?

LordCaramac ,
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@futurebird This is the palace of His Furry Highness the Prince, and I'm just his butler.

LordCaramac ,
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@KatLS @futurebird
Here's a bunch of photos from about 10 years ago when Prince was still quite young.

#caturday #catsofmastodon #cat #kater #katze #gato #gatto #britishlonghair #Prince

A black and white British Longhair cat with the caption: It's Caturday!
A black and white British Longhair cat with the caption: Bitches.

LordCaramac ,
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@KatLS @futurebird Here's a very good photo of the Prince. https://discordian.social/@LordCaramac/109600702261708595

rahmstorf , to random German
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Wer Warnungen der Klimaforscher jahrzehntelang nicht ernst nimmt und Politiker wählt, die den Klimaschutz verschleppen, darf sich dann nicht über Hochwasser wundern.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/hochwasser-saarland-regen-100.html

LordCaramac ,
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@rahmstorf Das ist selbst ohne totale Katastrophe hart genug, wenn man einfach nur Gartenbau betreiben und Obst und Gemüse ernten will. Einmal ist der Boden wochenlang sumpfig, und alles verfault, und kurz darauf ist der Boden knochentrocken und betonhart, und alles verdorrt.

molly0xfff , to random
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i...

LordCaramac ,
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@molly0xfff

Kadsenchaos , to random
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I have a proposal:
Whenever some company insists on calling a piece of equipment or software "smart", let's call it "needy" instead.

  • needs wifi
  • needs bluetooth
  • needs update
  • needs cookies
  • needs access
  • needs account
  • needs login

I want dumb stuff that works.

LordCaramac ,
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@claudius @Kadsenchaos @Fischblog What we need are good open standards and laws that force companies to implement those standards correctly, but that would be [gasp] Socialism, wouldn't it?

BeAware , to random
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Well, damn. Midjourney has opened it's "alpha" website to users who have generated over 100 images, which is probably anyone whose been apart of the platform for a week.

That means Midjourney's image generation is now on the web!

When it's finally not in "alpha" anymore, this will open up the platform to SO many more people who hate Discord or just don't know how to use it.

Excited for the future!

#AIart #MidJourneyArt #MidjourneyAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MastoArt #FediArt #Artist #GenerativeArt #GenerativeAI #Midjourney

LordCaramac ,
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@BeAware I have never used Discord, and I don't want to.

rbreich , to random
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A single man, William T. Howell, wrote the 1864 law that the AZ Supreme Court has revived to ban nearly all abortions in the state.

Women didn’t have the right to vote back then, and none had any say in the territory’s laws. But they can vote now. And they will have a big say.

LordCaramac ,
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@rbreich Sweet Home Alabama 🤢🤮

breadandcircuses , to random
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Yeah.

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses Besides, how can it be considered "sanity" to be adapted to a society which is utterly insane?

breadandcircuses , to random
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One of the major worries about climate tipping points is that it’s impossible for anyone, even the smartest of scientists, to say with any certainty how soon each of them might be reached or what will happen then.

Might one tipping point trigger another?

Yes, probably, but we don’t for sure which ones or exactly how. And we can’t really predict the timing or the magnitude of positive feedbacks and cascading effects, when multiple tipping points could overlap and reinforce and possibly amplify each other.

It’s not the fault of the scientists. They’re doing the best they can with the evidence and the tools they have. But it’s all quite unpredictable because they have never been in this position before. No one ever has.

What capitalist industry and commerce has done just in the last three decades, pumping nearly a trillion tons of CO2 into the air, has no precedent. Never before in Earth’s history has so much carbon dioxide been added to the atmosphere over such a short period of time.

Because human lifespans are short, 30 years may seem like a long time to us — but in geological terms, that’s merely the blink of an eye. On such a scale, it’s literally as if we have detonated a bomb.

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses While the crossing of some tipping points may be visible almost immediately, at least to the researchers who know how the normal behaviour of a system looks, and who can see when that behaviour suddently flips and doesn't return to what it used to be, in many systems the tipping points are almost invisible, and we only know decades later that we have passed one. Large systems might take tens of thousands or even millions of years to completely flip to a new state. ⬇️

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LordCaramac ,
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@jeffowski sanity is overrated

breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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Electric vehicles clearly are better for our climate and environment, at least in terms of overall carbon emissions, than traditional ICE vehicles.

That doesn't mean EVs are good for the climate and environment, though — because they're not. As always, the best option is not to drive a car at all. Instead, if you can, ride a bicycle or an electric bike or scooter or use public transit.

But tire manufacturers really want you to keep driving. And they're okay with either kind of vehicle, ICE or electric. Of course, they would prefer that you drive a large SUV or one of those giant pickup trucks. That makes more money for them because the tires cost more and they wear out faster.

Big EVs are especially great for tire companies...

With their heavy weight and quick acceleration, EVs tend to burn through tires about 20% faster than internal combustion vehicles do, according to AlixPartners. And the tires cost about 50% more.

“If EV does proliferate through the car population like some think, it may bring about what I call the gold rush for tire manufacturers,” said John Healy, an analyst with Northcoast Research.

FULL STORY -- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/why-evs-are-causing-a-tire-boom.html

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #WarOnCars #BanCars

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses My bicycles need new tires every ten years or so. Still leaving a trail of microplastics everywhere I cycle, but not much in comparison.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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"The Great Barrier Reef has been hit by its fifth mass coral bleaching event in the past eight years.

That event has led experts to ask whether Australia's environmental icon has reached a tipping point."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-14/great-barrier-reef-mass-bleaching-coral-devastated/103588726

LordCaramac ,
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@CelloMomOnCars As Peter Beckwith said a couple of years ago on his Youtube channel, the largest living structure on this planet has now become the largest dying structure,

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LordCaramac ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor My cat's work seems to consist of walking over to the college campus and watching the students from hiding places.

breadandcircuses , to random
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A few excerpts from a terrific essay on "The Insanity of a Throwaway Culture"...

Americans use about 100 billion polyethylene bags a year — the kind of plastic bag you would bring your groceries home with if you forgot your tote. Even though Americans have a particular affinity for plastic bags, their consumption is nothing compared to global consumption, which was around five trillion in 2002 alone.

If the number of plastic bags being produced in just an hour were laid end to end, they would stretch around the world seven times. If you did nothing else but watch plastic bags be produced one after the other, it would take nearly two thousand lifetimes to observe only one year’s worth of plastic bag production.

That’s insane.

Toxic contaminants and bacteria accumulate on the surfaces of plastics floating in waterways (this even has its own name — the plastisphere) and can be transferred to humans through the consumption of seafood.

And of course, microplastics are now found virtually everywhere on earth, including Antarctica, and are a given in the food chain at this point. They’ve been found in drinking water, salt, beer, soil, in human breast milk, and in human placentas.

That’s insane.

FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.ph/jeC8x
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://medium.com/the-new-climate/the-insanity-of-a-throwaway-culture-8b142ae61f56

LordCaramac ,
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@matthewtoad43 @breadandcircuses I don't think the Industrial Age can continue, no matter how much I wish it could. The Age of the Machines will end, it won't last another 300 years, and our technological complexity will probably peak around the middle of this century.

breadandcircuses , to random
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It's not parody. It's not The Onion.

This is the actual world we live in now...

"Mystery Billionaire Buys Apocalypse-Ready Bunker Surrounded By Fire Moat"

In a dystopic but perhaps unsurprising turn, the ultra-wealthy are investing in fortified shelters like never before. Mark Zuckerberg’s purchase of a 5,000-square-foot bunker beneath his Kauai ranch has set off something of a buying frenzy, with the global elite seeking refuge from future threats like armed conflict, cyberattacks, and climate change.

But it’s far worse than just bunkers: Al Corbi, president of Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments, is overseeing the creation of custom designs for the uber-rich that go far beyond traditional shelters. His most ambitious project to date is an island fortress with a 30-foot-deep lake surrounded by a flammable liquid moat, water cannons for aerial threats, and a whole lot more, set to be completed in 2025.

FULL STORY -- https://www.dmarge.com/mystery-billionaire-buys-apocalypse-ready-bunker

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses All those rich bastards can hide in their fortresses as far as I'm concerned, we just need to make sure they stay there and don't come out again.

gadgetbond , to random
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#X (formerly ) and are hatching a plan to bring -generated art and conversations mainstream - if tricky issues around IP can be managed.
https://gadgetbond.com/twitter-x-midjourney-ai-generated-image-partnership/

LordCaramac ,
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@BeAware @gadgetbond Just another reason for me to stick with Stable Diffusion and other open source software projects and ignore the commercial AI tools.

futurebird , to random
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Just texted my cousin who lives in OH. found out she "isn't certain" if she's registered to vote or not. She's an army doctor. She has SOMANY degrees.

She's an organized smart person and volunteers. She also finds politics boring, stressful, depressing, etc.

But with me bugging her she'll vote. She knows.

If you put up with my posts you find politics interesting. (even if you also find it depressing, stressful etc.) That is not normal. Most people don't like politics.

Nag a cousin today!

LordCaramac ,
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@futurebird It is absolutely insane that Americans have to get registered to vote. Here in Germany, everybody is registered automatically. If you change your address, move to a new place, you have 14 days to go to the nearest Bürgeramt (literally citizen's office), which in small to medium sized towns usually resides in or near the Rathaus, inform them of your new address and get your ID card and passport altered accordingly. Thus the state always knows who you are and where you live.

LordCaramac , to random German
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@stablehorde_generator draw for us The Monstrosity of Normality, surrealism, dada, elektrodada, weird, whimsical, dark

breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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I've shared a lot of very bad news with you this week, along with better choices our society might make that could put us on a much safer course. Unfortunately, a radical change in direction, though much needed, seems unlikely at this point.

The outlook is not good. That's quite clear, if we face the truth. But how do we deal with that, emotionally, mentally, and in the way we live our daily lives?

Nina Vinot offers what she's learned in "How to Make Peace With Eco-Anxiety"...

A year ago, I struggled with eco-anxiety so much that I had become a downer in my social circles. I was trying to sensitize people around me about the impact of their diet, their fast fashion habits, or their choice to take a business seat when flying. My fear of an apocalyptic future crippled me to a near-obsession. I asked for help from a psychiatrist a couple of years ago, but she had no clue how to manage eco-anxiety.

I went to a meditation retreat and followed the online course "Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet." I finally understood many of my mistakes and counterproductive beliefs and behaviors.

I want to share with you six of the lightbulbs that brightened me and probably saved me from eco-anxious prostration and feeling ever guilty:

1️⃣ Taking Care of Ourselves Is Already Taking Care of the Planet

2️⃣ What if it’s Not Possible to Save the Day?

3️⃣ Collective Self-Hatred Undermines Everyone

4️⃣ Suffering, or Despair, Is Not My Identity

5️⃣ What if I Am Not Enough?

6️⃣ The Importance of Being Before Acting

FULL ESSAY -- https://medium.com/illumination/how-to-make-peace-with-eco-anxiety-578371b997f2

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses We won't be able to do anything meaningful as long as we are trapped in individualism like isolated atoms. Instead of obsessing with changing our own lives and trying to get other to change theirs, we need to change the entire system. And that means that conservatives become our arch enemies, since the economies, the societies, the cultures, of which we are part, are the very things that cause all of the ongoing , and there is no way those can be preserved, even moderate reforms won't do much good. There aren't any non-radical futures left, only the ones in which we make radical changes, and the ones where radical changes are imposed upon us by the collapse of the ecological foundations of all civilisations.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Capitalism cannot be allowed to continue.

As long as capitalism is in charge, then Business As Usual is inevitable.

But Business As Usual can only lead to collapse — of the ecosystem, of the economy, of governments, and of modern society.

Collapse, starting slowly and then growing, means tragedies beyond anything you have ever imagined.

If capitalism is still the dominating force ten years from now, then it’s too late. Collapse will happen. It may in fact be too late already — but we will never know unless capitalism is rejected and degrowth is adopted.

The sooner, the better!

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses What we need is a global decentralised network of radical movements working together to trigger the rapid meltdown of the capitalist world economy. Destroy the moneymaking machine before it destroys us. Sabotage the supply chains. Stop resource extraction, stop production and transport of goods, turn all the shares and derivatives into worthless pieces of paper. Block all important roads, airports, harbours, canals, railroads, make sure none of the materials and goods get delivered. Block all employees from getting to their workplaces, until nobody and nothing works anymore, and people are forced to find other ways of living if they don't want to die.

breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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For me and most of my followers here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's winter. That means the weather outside, generally, is cold. And when it's cold like this, it can be easy to forget what's going on under the surface.

The globe is still warming. It hasn't stopped. In fact, it's getting worse.

Take a look at the latest sea surface temperature readings (below). Note that we have just set a new record high, already exceeding last year's extreme "gobsmacking" high temperatures. Note that we also have at least another six weeks of seasonal warming still ahead of us, where new records certainly will continue to be set.

Not good.

LordCaramac ,
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@breadandcircuses It should be cold, but it's actually very mild, feels more like April than February.

RikerGoogling Bot , to random
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does gaydar use gamma beams or tachyons

LordCaramac ,
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@RikerGoogling

18+ breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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I’m torn.

Part of me can see how much nicer our world might be without any humans in it. Ecosystems could find their own equilibrium, unhindered by industrial pollution. Species could expand again and diversify, free of competition from the endless growth of factory farms, freeways, and parking lots.

It would take much time, centuries or even millennia, for the sky to regain its natural clarity, the forests to regrow, and the rivers to run clean. Even longer than that, probably, for all of the plastic eventually to degrade and disappear.

But someday, someday… the Earth would once again be a beautiful place.

It’s a lovely vision, and yet I’m torn. Because to get there means the suffering and death of billions of people. I wish there was a way to prevent that.

LordCaramac ,
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@RichardAshwell @kentpitman @breadandcircuses I think that around 2040 will be when the collapse begins to become really painful for the people in the West, but the entire collapse process will take decades at least and possibly centuries. And it won't happen all at once but in a series of sudden ultradestructive catastrophes followed by years of relative calm and only slow decline. Whether Hominids eventually go extinct mostly depends on how bad the 6th Extinction gets. However, the peak of the Industrial Age is near, and after the peak, its decline will become quite visible. With all the damage we have done to the biosphere, the Earth might not support even the most modest of civilisations for tens of thousands to millions of years, but if a few small but stable populations of Homo sapiens survive as nomadic post-collapse tribespeople, human evolution goes on, and new hominid species will evolve, one of which might start the entire process of civilisation again in a couple of million years.
But there won't be another Industrial Age for humans, not even for new Hominid species evolving from the survivors of the collapse. The Age of Machines will be over in 250 years or (quite likely a lot) less, and it won't get restarted. The Industrial Revolution was only possible because of huge deposits of coal and iron ore, and new deposits of those take so long to form that nothing resembling humans will be left by then; if the Genus Homo doesn't go extinct, evolution will shape its descendants into something entirely unrecognisable over the next hundreds of millions of years.

In the end it all depends on whether we get the type of mass extinction where some 70% of all species vanish, or the one where 95% die. In the first case, there is still a decent chance that the biosphere will continue to support at least some populations of large animals, and in that case, Homo sapiens could easily be one of those large animal species, with a few small groups surviving on whatever nutrients they can find. We're highly intelligent opportunistic omnivores after all. But if the extinction event becomes really bad, there will be a limit to the size of animal species that have a chance of survival, or rather, their body mass, and humans are far too big and too heavy to survive in that case. Depending on how bad it gets, maybe everything bigger than a raccoon dies, or maybe even everything bigger than a mouse. Some species will be able to adapt through dwarfism, but those will be the ones that weren't really big in the first place. With grown humans rarely weighing below 50kg, we don't stand a chance in hell if that happens.

LordCaramac ,
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@MattMastodon @RichardAshwell @kentpitman @breadandcircuses It will get even more painful--in the second half of this century, civilisation itself will begin to collapse, and not even the richest of the rich, probably trillionaires by then, will be able to hide from it behind their money. The human population will begin to shrink significantly, with tens to hundreds of millions of people dying each year, and with 1.5-3 billion people leaving their uninhabitable former home countries in search for a new home.

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A propos Werte-Union (Geheimtreffen, ): Über die habe ich auch einmal etwas geschrieben.

“Das Lachen vergeht einem, wenn man bedenkt, wie hier die Forschung als ‘Müll-Wissenschaft’ diffamiert und damit der Hass gegen Forscher geschürt wird.”

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/das-klimamanifest-2020-der-werte-union/

LordCaramac ,
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@rahmstorf Wenn die Wissenschaft nahelegt, daß es mit dem Wachstum der realen globalen Gesamtwirtschaft (jedenfalls gemessen mit der einzig relevanten Metrik, nämlich Energieumsatz in Watt und Materieumsatz in Tonnen pro Sekunde) und dem Kapitalismus so nicht mehr lange weitergehen kann, weil wir die ökologischen Wachstumsgrenzen überschritten haben und für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zurückschrumpfen müssen, dann kann das natürlich nur Teil einer globalen Verschwörung der Kommunisten gegen den Kapitalismus sein, denn der ist das beste System aller Zeiten. Jedenfalls für dessen Nutznießer.

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