I know the real answer is reddit but I really don’t want to go back now that I’ve already grown used to life without it. I was hoping for Lemmy to be a viable substitute but it isn’t. I can see how this place is wonderful for the certain type of person but that person is not me. My experience during the past 6+ months has been a net negative and I’m pretty much ready to move on. I just don’t know where else to go.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I don’t see the actual climate change as an existential threat to the human race in a way something like nuclear war, a pandemic, asteroid or AI could be. It’s bad but it’s not that bad.

    “My ignorance is worth more than your knowledge.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/20/climate-change-ipcc-report-15/

    Beyond that threshold, scientists have found, climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt. Basic components of the Earth system will be fundamentally, irrevocably altered.

    The report reveals thresholds in how much warming people and ecosystems can adapt to. Some are “soft” limits — determined by shortcomings in political and social systems. For example, a low-income community that can’t afford to build flood controls faces soft limits to dealing with sea level rise.

    But beyond 1.5 degrees of warming, the IPCC says, humanity will run up against “hard limits” to adaptation. Temperatures will get too high to grow many staple crops. Droughts will become so severe that even the strongest water conservation measures can’t compensate. In a world that has warmed roughly 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) — where humanity appears to be headed — the harsh physical realities of climate change will be deadly for countless plants, animals and people

    “I’ve never understood why…”

    And I can bet you never tried to understand.

    • Thorny_InsightOP
      13·
      2 months ago

      Nothing in your post indicates an existential threat. Sure some places will become unhabitable but not the entire earth. I also don’t understand why you need to include the passive agressive ad-hominems and belittling tone instead of just making your point. People like you is why I’m considering leaving this platform. You make the experience worse for everyone.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Because you’re a willfully ignorant dolt, that’s why the tone.

        People like you is why I’m considering leaving this platform.

        Good.

        People like you make the world worse for everyone.

        So you think AI is more of an existential threat to humanity than climate change? This informs me that you really think some Skynet type of shit is more likely to happen than extreme weather phenomena. Do you know what an ice-age is? Do you have any idea what it means when we don’t have enough water to grow crops? You think Alexa will hunt you down because you programmed it poorly, but you can’t understand why a category 4 hurricane is deadly af.

        Please, the faster you leave, the better. Head to Wikipedia to get rid of some of that ignorance. Here’s a few bit of material to get you started.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change

        Perhaps you’re more of a… ehm “visual learner”. Here: Here’s a handy flowchart. and here’s some examples in a video form Europe’s climate in 2050

        There’s a reason the deserts of our world aren’t populated, and I’m sure you can figure out what that reason is.

        “I don’t see an existential threat in permanently and majorly fucking up the only known world to support life” - You