Beachfront property… Here we go! You, know, plus sunamis and terrible weather.
We’re fucked. Glad I’m on the older side, don’t have kids, and got to experience this world before we utterly fucked it.
It’s true - it was beautiful before The Great Burn.
I feel so guilty for having my kids
SciAm unable to call out Big Oil.
They were just sold, and fired a lot of the better writers
That would explain it. Sold to which billionaire?
We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
Change has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.
WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!
(2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
So that’s how they get their religious thing.
I sweat with minimal exertion - combination of a sedentary lifestyle plus SSRIs fucking with body temp regulation. Always thought I might be comfy in the arctic circle. So much for that, I guess.
Everyone concurs
Except our oligarch overlords and their shareholders.
Oh no, they concur. They decided their greed is worth everyon’e collective suffering.
Every day we do nothing is letting them continue it.
The rich decided to ignore clikmate change and sabotage climate research long before any of us were born.
They knew about this shit in the 1800s.
