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[TheMan]

Human influence on global warming is 'unequivocal,' UN report says

Hundreds of scientists reviewed more than 14,000 studies tracking climate change evidence worldwide.

www.space.com

Basically at this point it's impossible to reverse, but we can mitigate the worst outcomes by converting to net zero carbon emissions worldwide ASAP. Full report available at the link.

Personally I'm skeptical humanity will be able to avert the worst case scenario, but I hope I'm proven wrong

 

[kretos]

Basically at this point it's impossible to reverse, but we can mitigate the worst outcomes by converting to net zero carbon emissions worldwide ASAP.

on it RIGHT NOW

wait what am i supposed to do or what should i buy

 

[haxan7]

on it RIGHT NOW

wait what am i supposed to do or what should i buy

Tweet about it all day on your iPhone that you replace every 6 months, sitting across from your 40 different pairs of shoes, 300 outfits, and 5 TVs that run all day in your giant mansion.

 

[Ulysses 31]

on it RIGHT NOW

wait what am i supposed to do or what should i buy

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

 

[FunkMiller]

Yay!

I'm sure the worst offending nations will immediately do something about this! There's no chance their governments will put short term greed ahead of long term safety!

 

[Prison Mike]

 

[A.Romero]

I'm sorry for everyone's kids.

 

[nush]

It's OK most of us will just enjoy some nice hot summers before the planet turns into a Mad Max wasteland and we will have past away.

 

[Bladed Thesis]

I thought it was deemed irreversible in 2014.

 

[INC]

I dont understand how this has happened, I buy my bag for life and recycle

 

[evolvaer]

We are all aware no single working class individual is making decisions that can affect the out come of global warming. It's the industrialists and donor class who need to decide to take this seriously. Which they have, elon and bezos are building rockets lol.

 

[kretos]

Tweet about it all day on your iPhone that you replace every 6 months, sitting across from your 40 different pairs of shoes, 300 outfits, and 5 TVs that run all day in your giant mansion.

thank god you didn't say PS4/5

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

 

[TheMan]

I thought it was deemed irreversible in 2014.

I could be wrong, but by my recollection it was not necessarily irreversible but would have required immediate net carbon zero. So in practice yes impossible…and so here we are

 

[Sybrix]

Globalization is the reason why.

I agree that humans are the reason for global warming, however these institutions like the UN are the forerunners of pushing Globalization more and more over the last 50 years.

 

[Armorian]

 

[bender]

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

The solution is to reduce the demand for meat, not eating less meat.

 

[Pejo]

Frankly, humanity is too greedy and selfish to turn this around, even if we could. That said, the earth itself supposedly has gone through many many global warming/ice ages etc. It'll still be doing it long after humanity is wiped out.

 

[cormack12]

We will gamble on inventing something or technology solving the issue.

 

[jufonuk]

Thank you billionaires and big business for doing this.

 

[showernota]

If anyone cares that much they can start with the insanely unhealthy fuel oil cargo ships.

1 ship = 50 millions cars.

Health risks of shipping pollution have been 'underestimated'

Governments warned after study finds one giant container ship can emit almost same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars

www.theguardian.com

 

[Prison Mike]

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

 

[Punished Miku]

COVID might make this real for a handful of more people. Now hopefully people realize that that one day you can wake up and things will be different nearly overnight.

Get ready for the next one, because it's coming. Everyone warned you.

 

[Orion2]

there's nothing you're going to be able to do against global warming as long as the human population numbers only increase

 

[AJUMP23]

Lets go to mars.

 

[O-N-E]

 

[haxan7]

the amount of racism in this chart is staggering

 

[IDKFA]

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

This is true.

However, I have a more radical idea, which is banning meat from fast food outlets (McDonald's, KFC etc), including sandwiches and meat based fast food sold at super markets. Basically if you want to eat meat, hunt it or buy it raw from a supermarket/butcher.

I understand this idea is probably too much for some to comprehend, but as you said, the meat industry is the biggest cause of greenhouse gas emissions. We can't all go vegan. That's not an option as humans are omnivores. So, that leaves the only option of reducing the meat we produce.

We also need to educate people on the true value of meat. People treat meat like it's an infinite resource and far too much is produced, meaning even more is wasted. It's hard to get some figures as to how much meat is thrown away by the fast food industry or supermarkets, but it's easily millions upon millions of tons. UK households throw away and waste over half a million tons of meat each year, so I dread to think what that is on a global scale with the fast food industry combined on top of it. Possibly billions of tons of meat?

 

[Mistake]

Global warming is politics

Stop buying cheap outsourced goods produced in countries with bad quality control

 

[Schattenjäger]

hi

Lets go to mars.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Time for the cancer of humanity to metastasize into the stars baby!

 

[Flutta]

Did anyone mention China?

if not FUCK CHINA!

Anyways, did people really think we could reverse this shit? LMAO .

 

[pr0cs]

Did anyone mention China?

Why bother, it's easier to virtue signal when you keep China out of the equation.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

I mean until countries start to mandate strict laws over every industry contributing to the planets rapid decline, nothings going to change…

i'm sorry but the individual changing their habits for the planet has little to no effect.

Look how hard it is to tell people to wear masks/get vaxxed without people crying out about freedoms.

and now you expect capitalists to change their productions…globally?

 

[TheDreadLord]

The only way for anything meaningful to happen is through developed paying developing countries to reduce their emissions. These should use this money to modernize their infra-structure/industries and keep their forests. Otherwise it is super dumb seeing EU countries with rigid restrictions and then certain countries are just adding more and more emissions. At the same time is extremely unfair to impose to developing countries that they need to halt their development while the CO2 per capita of such countries is much smaller than of a regular citizen in Europe, for example.

 

[Ellery]

always relevant

I genuinely can understand both sides. The selfish ones who want to YOLO life and enjoy it and fuck future generations and the ones that are terrified. (With understand I don't mean that I can sympathize with that, but from the standpoint of being a selfish asshole wanting to enjoy life I can see the reasons why someone would rather do that instead of giving up on things for future generations. A lot of people are like that and are just being dishonest when they don't want to admit that).
In a sense printing money and increasing debt kind of ends in the same results as not fighting climate emergencies. We all want to live in the now and then and let the future deal with problems we create.

It is probably somewhere in the middle (closer to the point of that we actually screwed the planet) and in times of need humans have always shown an extreme talent of surviving, but that doesn't mean it is a good thing.

Even though it is anecdotal I remember winters to be cold and snowy and summers to be warm and the last 7-10 years I have snow maybe 2-3 times and the summers are brutal scorching hot. There is also the increasing amount of natural disasters happening all over the world (sure we are more connected and have instant access to a lot more information and news globally so the emergencies feel closer instead of reading it in the newspaper 2 weeks later).

There is always the possibility(hope) of scientific breakthrough that could change everything, but for the time being I do all I can to keep my footprint as low as possible on my own without being a hypocrite about it on social media to my 500k instagram followers after I jet to dubai and drive around in a lamborghini.

 

[Sybrix]

Global warming is politics

Stop buying cheap outsourced goods produced in countries with bad quality control

Correct

Here in the UK we have so many cheap clothes shops (Primark, Matalan etc) where you can buy shirt, jeans, tops etc for £5, they all come from Pakistan, Vietnam, China and the rest

 

[KiNeMz]

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

Wow you have been sold the lie. Do you know regenerative agriculture can actually reverse our carbon footprint. Cows will save us.

 

[Jaysen]

Wait I thought everything was burning because someone didn't rake the forests properly. I'm SHOCKED that assessment turned out to be false.

 

[Fbh]

They can give 1000 other warning and nothing will change. The only "solution" to this is if science manages to find a way to actively counter global warming.
Otherwise they'll tell you to eat less meat, change to an electric car and use paper straws ...as giant industries and giant polluters like India and China continue to not give a fuck.

 

[farmerboy]

Fusion is the answer.

 

[Rat Rage]

It's gonna be a huge problem. Much worse than Covid.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Eat less meat, the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and planes combined.

A rebuttal:



Another follow-up:

 

[Infiltrator Irelia]

It's gonna be a huge problem. Much worse than Covid.

Both topics have been hijacked by conspiracy driven right wing crazies, so yeah, it's just going to get worse and worse

 

[Xyphie]

We can't even do the easy things like just banning America's most popular car the Ford F-150 and make everyone buy a Honda Civic with twice the mpg, so there's zero chance we'll be able to do the hard things like carbon-free steel, cement, fertilizer, plastics, shipping etc.

 

[reksveks]

They can give 1000 other warning and nothing will change. The only "solution" to this is if science manages to find a way to actively counter global warming.
Otherwise they'll tell you to eat less meat, change to an electric car and use paper straws ...as giant industries and giant polluters like India and China continue to not give a fuck.

China and India do make alot of the shit that the west want. If they decide to stop manufacturing those products, assuming they were financial viable. Where do you think this co2 production is going to go.

I would also remind you that per capita the US lead the way.

 

[oagboghi2]

It was irreversible 50 years.

we were all supposed to die 20 years ago.

doom preachers preach doom. News at 11

 

[YCoCg]

It was irreversible 50 years.

we were all supposed to die 20 years ago.

doom preachers preach doom. News at 11

I guess all the things happening on the planet are a massive coincidence then?

 

[Halo is Back]

Earth has now become this meme

 

[12Goblins]

Global warming is politics

this sounds familiar

 

[oagboghi2]

I guess all the things happening on the planet are a massive coincidence then?

Oh right, I forgot nothing has ever happened before.

Any weather anamoly today is totally unique and proof that the doom preachers are always correct.