|
Post by easye on Feb 6, 2024 12:48:02 GMT -5
Funny that there was a similar "movement" around the late 1890s and early 1900s. Wild animals and other wilderness were on the brink as the Guilded Age wound down. It took the Progressive era and T.R. to make the political changes necessary, and it went along with a side of trust-busting, labor reform, and environmental protections.
I am hopeful that our current Guilded Age 2.0 will have a similar dénouement.
|
|
|
Post by easye on Feb 6, 2024 16:19:23 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by bobtheinquisitor on Feb 6, 2024 17:47:10 GMT -5
The roads keep flooding near my son’s school. They’ve been sending out messages about maybe closing the school for a day or two, but so far nothing solid. They stopped counting tarries since so many kids were arriving 15 to 20 minutes late just due to the one unflooded path through the neighborhood being congested.
|
|
Haighus
Ye Olde King of OT
Posts: 875
|
Post by Haighus on Feb 7, 2024 2:28:02 GMT -5
So Southern California is getting its every-100-years underwater episode. I suspect the next one will be sooner than 100 years.
|
|
|
Post by easye on Feb 7, 2024 10:45:14 GMT -5
I think the the last one was just last year.....
|
|
|
Post by pacific on Feb 13, 2024 7:14:33 GMT -5
Yeah I read that. Bloody terrifying. Can't quite work out if it's naive (or maybe wilful!) disbelief in climate change being a thing, or if it's malicious 'fuck you, planet - we're trying to make money here'. I largely suspect the latter. I read about a quite interesting policy shift which took place around the early George W Bush era. Prior to this, the Republican party official line was to acknowledge climate change as confirmed science, but to trust in the ability of industry to mitigate the effects of global warming. So I think things along the lines of enormous carbon sink factories, industrial scale replanting of lost forestry, even sci-fi level stuff like giant solar mirrors that would shield the earth and deflect the sun's energy. I assume at some point they have decided it is cheaper to just finance think-tanks that promote social media lunatic theories and try and pretend that it is not a thing. I guess big oil is the industry bankrolling the Republican party, and for them it's cheaper just to not do anything - and so that has become the party line.
|
|
|
Post by easye on Mar 7, 2024 12:04:23 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by dabbler on Mar 7, 2024 12:22:30 GMT -5
I mean, eventually they stop the false shocked and worried reporting about it, right?
|
|
|
Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Mar 7, 2024 17:22:24 GMT -5
I mean, eventually they stop the false shocked and worried reporting about it, right? When they figure it won't get enough clicks, probably.
|
|
|
Post by Disciple of Fate on Mar 8, 2024 8:10:09 GMT -5
Almost nobody in power really seems to understand what is really happening, all they care about is the next election cycle.
|
|
|
Post by easye on Mar 28, 2024 11:21:19 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by easye on Apr 9, 2024 9:55:25 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by pacific on Apr 10, 2024 8:22:09 GMT -5
In the UK we have had record rainfall (in February), much of March felt like we were underwater too so I doubt that will be far behind.
Hilarious interview with Rees-Mogg this morning (our most awful of politicians, actually most awful human beings in general) saying that warmer weather will mean less deaths - apparently there are less deaths from heat waves than cold snaps in the UK. So we should be welcoming it. You couldn't make it up.
Meanwhile, price of Olive Oil has sky-rocketed, due to failing crops - directly attributed to climate change. We are going to see more and more of this sort of thing.
|
|
|
Post by crispy78 on Apr 10, 2024 9:42:18 GMT -5
Hey, maybe the warmer weather will mean we can grow olives here in the UK? Then we can avoid the post-Brexit import tariffs that are coming in too... Um, yay?
|
|
|
Post by adurot on Apr 30, 2024 0:22:30 GMT -5
|
|