COP26 FFS!

So despair reigns, do we just turn away, forget our children and carry on regardless? 



Jonathan Pie, as usual nails this, and I shall gather my family this christmas, not mention this through shame and probably drink and cry alone.

The part right in the middle where he talks about how it's up to consumers to put pressure on companies is so fucking real. It's just like the plastics industry trying to convince people recycling will solve the plastic in the ocean problem. Most people do not know enough to hold corporations accountable for every ingredient, or every bit of toxic waste they produce. That's what governments are supposed to do.

All I see is short termism politicians going through the motions, thinking about getting voted back in, dancing to the tune of business and telling us to recycle, which then largely goes in a landfill anyway.

Getting to the stage when I just want to blow things up.

If you didn't watch the above you are unlikely to watch this, but hey.

Because god won't help you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-59631837

Do you want ice with that?

https://www.eenews.net/articles/new-worries-emerge-about-antarcticas-doomsday-glacier/

And at the other end.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/arctic-warming-consistent-alarming-and-undeniable/

I think we're doomed because people are too apathetic to do anything.

Probably, sigh.

aussies invented the black box, they're doing another.

We a bunch of frogs in a pot listening to the likes of bennyshapiro and jessewaters telling us through their koch (or cock, no offense calen???) filled mouths that big oil isnt bad and "people can adapt, just sell your house"

I'm never offended by a cock-filled mouth.

Close enough of a topic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html

Great.  Now I have to research how to protect against arsenic winds.

To be fair this has a lot to do with massive population growth.

The Great Salt Lake in 1987.



The Great Salt Lake in 2021.

Wear a mask! Probably need one of those full face respirator masks.



Meanwhile in Yellowstone. holy shit!

Huh... so Joe Manchin, the coal mogul, is the chairman of the senate energy committee.

I think that might be a conflict of interest.

ya just a little bit

Huh... so Joe Manchin, the coal mogul, is the chairman of the senate energy committee.

I think that might be a conflict of interest.

And yet, he still can't save coal.

And yet, he still can't save coal.

What makes people think that coal should be saved?

Its required for high quality steel


Obviously not for other uses that can be had from other sources

Quote from: Lorddave on June 15, 2022, 02:36:59 PM

And yet, he still can't save coal.

What makes people think that coal should be saved?

Cos everyone wants to work down a mine.  Or something.

Quote from: Lorddave on June 15, 2022, 02:36:59 PM

And yet, he still can't save coal.

What makes people think that coal should be saved?

They work in the coal industry.
And vote republican.

Relax folks,  Herschel Walker is on the case..

Herschel on the climate/Green New Deal/air:

"Since we don't control the air our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up."

he's right

kind of

canada gets USA smog.

thanks.

Kind of a strong case against democracy.

What should we do about climate change, inflation, a world war on the verge of breaking out and the famine that is sure to follow?

I know!  Let's ask the brain damaged ex football player who thinks air decides to go to China to decide!

Is the world going through a regression of expectations? Are the questions, and the answers to those questions so beyond us that we crave simplicity and a mouthpiece, old, infirm, or damaged that can spout a few platitudes whilst we bury our heads. Not that we are sick of experts as Boris said, but sick of trying to not hear what they say?

Kind of a strong case against democracy.

What should we do about climate change, inflation, a world war on the verge of breaking out and the famine that is sure to follow?

I know!  Let's ask the brain damaged ex football player who thinks air decides to go to China to decide!

I mean, he's not wrong.
Air currents are a thing and Chinese smog does flow across the pacific to both the US and possibly Canada.
He just dumbed it down hard.

In an innovation talk i headd somehwere stomeimte

We are duplicit people - we seek out change but also fear change.


I think the word was neo neo something...

Also
Imsgine the usa was a singular person.

Quote from: Crouton on July 11, 2022, 09:29:24 PM

Kind of a strong case against democracy.

What should we do about climate change, inflation, a world war on the verge of breaking out and the famine that is sure to follow?

I know!  Let's ask the brain damaged ex football player who thinks air decides to go to China to decide!

I mean, he's not wrong.
Air currents are a thing and Chinese smog does flow across the pacific to both the US and possibly Canada.
He just dumbed it down hard.

"Across"?

That would require mecator map being somewhat valid.




Also
"Super hard"

The COP27 is done, sponsored by a company who produce 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year, infested with big oil companies, agri-business with fossil fuel companies dominating the list of official sponsors, the next round is in the United Arab Emirates who promote their state oil company as a green champion, what could possibly be wrong with this? answers please written in oil-based ink on the skin of a dolphin.

The COP27 is done, sponsored by a company who produce 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year, infested with big oil companies, agri-business with fossil fuel companies dominating the list of official sponsors, the next round is in the United Arab Emirates who promote their state oil company as a green champion, what could possibly be wrong with this? answers please written in oil-based ink on the skin of a dolphin.

Sadly,  the only appropriate response is "So Long and thanks for all the fish".

Quote from: markjo on June 15, 2022, 02:54:29 PM

Quote from: Lorddave on June 15, 2022, 02:36:59 PM

And yet, he still can't save coal.

What makes people think that coal should be saved?

They work in the coal industry.

I'm sure that the people who worked in the whale oil industry felt the same way.

Quote from: Lorddave on June 16, 2022, 07:13:04 AM

Quote from: markjo on June 15, 2022, 02:54:29 PM

Quote from: Lorddave on June 15, 2022, 02:36:59 PM

And yet, he still can't save coal.

What makes people think that coal should be saved?

They work in the coal industry.

I'm sure that the people who worked in the whale oil industry felt the same way.

Or the government.