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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: Halloween Horror: We're Fucked When It Comes to Climate Change
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-horror-were-fucked-when-it.htmlThe Rude Pundit
10/31/2019
Halloween Horror: We're Fucked When It Comes to Climate Change
Man, I want our children and grandchildren to just fucking destroy us. I want them to look on us as the lowest fucking vermin that ever walked the earth. They should want to launch our remains into space so our poisoned minds can no longer pollute anyone's beliefs. Of course, this is all assuming a future, which, frankly, at this point, seems less and less likely.
While you were worried if Trumpy S. Pumpkins gets impeachified good and quick, several more reports came out detailing just how very fucked the world is because of climate change, and this time it's gonna happen in the lifetimes of most of us. So if your plan was like those of most conservatives, which seemed to be "Fuck it. I'll be dead. Let the kids deal," well, that just got wrecked like a melting glacier.
By 2050, which, according to my awesome math abilities, is just a little over 30 years away, sea levels are now predicted to rise to the point where major cities will be underwater during high tide. You got that? You don't? Ask people in Miami what that's like. But this is worse. We're talking Bangkok, Shanghai, and Mumbai being uninhabitable, and we're talking over 150 million people affected. If you really wanted to stop immigration and refugees, you'd do some goddamn thing to mitigate the effects of climate change because, right now, we're facing a migration crisis the likes of which the world has never seen.
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Meanwhile, the constant waves of fires upon fires wash across California. Climate science writer and activist Bill McKibben wonders if California is becoming uninhabitable due to this. This was something that was predicted by Mike Davis in his stunningly prescient book Ecology of Fear, where he saw Southern California and Los Angeles in particular collapsing under its own reckless land development as it collided with environmental degradation. What seemed absurd in 1998 was prophetic.
Our failure to act, our failure to shut shit down until our leaders act, is a monstrous abandonment of future generations. We're past the point where we can reverse any of this. We are now at the "Can we not make shit worse?" part of the equation, and the resounding answer from our feckless, fossil fuel-owned leaders is "Fuck you. Burn more coal."
We are creating a hell out of earth for the future. If you want to bring this back to politics, we should be voting out and, yeah, impeaching any leader who refuses to act and who shuts their eyes to the reality that is melting and burning all around them.
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The Rude Pundit: Halloween Horror: We're Fucked When It Comes to Climate Change (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2019
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Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)1. I'm not but sooo many of my loved ones are.
and that brings me moments of great sadness.
0rganism
(23,944 posts)2. +1
we're headed into some very strange sick times
crickets
(25,962 posts)3. K&R for visibility
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)4. I've been saying for awhile that I believe we are past the tipping point.
We need to prepare to adapt to the coming changes and we'll be on our own on that as there appears no one in leadership who is taking up that task.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)5. and to think, about 80% of commuters could do so with electric cars
Lead-acid batteries were capable all the way back in the 1960s. (People can make electricity in their yards and on their roofs). Electric vehicles eliminate too many revenue streams, though. Profits have always been more important than planets and people.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)6. Something that doesn't get discussed much is the massive carbon footprint of the US military.
I have little confidence that we're going to be able to avoid disaster. Climate change seems to be such a massive problem that most people can't wrap their minds around it, which leads people to ignore or deny the reality.