More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C].
The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.
The institute said such a high number of deaths was unusual and suggested record-high lake temperatures and an historic drought in the Amazon may have been the cause.
The news is likely to add to the concerns of climate scientists over the effects human activity and extreme droughts are having on the region.
If we stopped the economy and stopped all emissions worldwide, this progression would still occur for more than 2 decades.
This is just the beginning for stuff we did since y2k.
By the time we actually make serious change, it will be far too late.
Happy Sunday. Enjoy football.
Don’t invest in the future, don’t have kids. Be here for a good time not a long time. Fuck the world.
That’s kinda where I’m at, but I already have kids, and now they’re having kids. I worry about them.
Well f*ck you. Why should others pay for your selfishness.
Because FUCK YOU you destroyed the fucking world and simp.for billionaires, corporations and dictators!
This shit is NOT worth preserving let it burn the fuck down and die. Humanity is a failed experiment. Death is Inevitable just fucking embrace it, just don’t bring others into this shit fucking hole.
Sad part is we’ve more or less figured out on paper how to cut our emissions while retaining a fairly high quality of life. Not perfect obviously and we’ll lose a lot of the amenities people in developed countries have gotten used to, but to say the path to sustainability is uncharted is simply not true, and it could have been implemented 20 years ago, it can also be implemented today. But it would require gutting the wealth of the rich, totally overhauling the economy, government, and society as a whole, and everyone from all socioeconomic statuses agreeing that it should be done. So it’s basically impossible under capitalism. Most of the upper class/upper middle class people in the West won’t even entertain the idea of not owning a car, living in an apartment, or cutting out meat from their diets, let alone the radical changes needed for our species to actually be sustainable.
I’m surprised that there isn’t an open source guide on how to be an effective eco terrorist and what the most vulnerable global chock points are. People have gone to war over less.
Oh there are some out there just the people who want to go to war over this are poor
Optimistic of you to assume that we will ever make serious change.
We will, one way or another. At some point simply enough people will have died that we will stop making things meaningfully worse 🤷♂️
2 decades is likely optimistic. 5 is probably more likely. that said at what point do we just reach absolute nihilism and just stop giving a fuck. We’re well past the point of no return. Our emissions are still INCREASING despite knowledge that it’s going to destroy the liveable planet as we currently know it causing mass extinction events.
If we don’t have any sense of urgency at this point, I can’t see it starting anytime soon.
Everyday we delay we make it worse. what’s worse than catastrophic?
I’ll point out we did have a brief decline in emissions during covid and in 2009 during GFC but that was accidental becuse people stopped spending and travelling.
What also worries me is that there’s a lot of talk about the environment collapsing in a century; however, given how things are going, I’m starting to suspect these people are seeing exponential change and slapping on a more linear approximation to predict what will happen. No one really knows what’s going to happen, but we do know that it’s happening right now and all we can do is try to protect what’s left from the absolutely moronic shitheads that have their heads so far up their ass they look almost normal until they start speaking.
The economy did basically stop for a month in March 2020, and pollution dropped incredibly.
Change is possible. We just don’t want it.
Maybe we shouldn’t have unplugged our computers during y2k
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