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You know what would help this situation?
AI
Lots and lots of AI.
Also more religion.
You know what would help this situation? AI
Damn snowflakes. In our days we would have fixed that with a photoshop.
Also let’s concentrate most of the world’s wealth into the hands of a handful of creepy psychopaths. That would probably solve everything.
The world needs more bond villains.
Unironically yes. AI would help us to change the climate
How?
When 10k more data centers are built, the climate will be way beyond the tipping point
So, helping for the worse?
I haven’t said helping people, I said helping in changing the climate, or helping increasing shareholders’ value or whatever
Make it hotter, duh
AI will totally develop to a point it comes up with a miracle solution that needs no change in lifestyle or social system. /s
I think AI will be really really useful for a lot of things. Not just LLMs for those that only see chatgpt as AI.
That being said, you’re good damn right that no human progress matters when we aren’t allowed to try a system other than "give everything we gain to the people who already have everything.
Technology has given us so much more ability to create and sustain, yet. Even people in wealthier counties have only had their standard of living standards or go down due to enshittification/instrumental convergence and lack of antitrust stopping growth-maximizing tumours from further monopolizing.
We can actually create reliable frameworks for a better society, with More responsive firm of growth that wasn’t built hundreds of years ago when we didn’t have a very good comprehension around some things.
Billionaires should not own the media. Billionaires should not direct text and science research. Billionaires should not be immune from accountability. Groups like the heritage foundation should have long been met with the violence currently being imposed on students, scientists, and actual journalists through the administration.
Making monopolistic power consolidating into a firm of free speech was already a final nail in the neoliberal coffin, splitting people between a fascist cult, people who still haven’t realized that neoliberal performative faux progression is just a wing of the fascists, and both are furiously fighting the left, actual progressives, scientists, historians, and experts in living systems/epistemology, or the actual study of intelligence and what we’ve already been able to learn from it.
On the whole, we can actually conceptualize the proper way to balance systems in a way that appropriately improves the environment for literally everyone. Even billionaires would likely be more happy, just less able to treat the whole of humanity as a play thing.
Not enabling the richest asshole to casually decide a million+ of the poorest should go die because we need trillions in tax cuts for billionaires for some reason.
Oh, thank the merciful lord and saviour.
I was a bit worried that we were actually going to have to do something meaningful there for a second, phew!!
Anyway check out my new truck “the gas guzzler 4000”
Don’t worry, it’s super environmentally friendly since it’s a hybrid and can drive for two miles on electric power!
I’m from Spain
I didn’t know Spain is Middle Earth!!!
This Summer for sure
Well hung & dessicated.
Wasn’t Mordor to the south?
Maybe I’m using the wrong compass…
Mordor In The Middle is my most anticipated new Frankie Muniz project.
Uy… siempre pueden refugiarse en las ex colonias… digo, aca en argentina todavia safa
Esto esta bien jodido, y con el supuesto niño que se viene, no nos van a quedar dientes
¿Sigue Argentina esperando que la salve el mercado libre?
Argentina esta nadando en mierda desde hace 100 años, no desde que sus diarios se acordaron de donde estamos.
Lo unico que espera argentina es que messi traiga otra copa.
Conservative politics: apocalypse any% speedrun
You’re not wrong, that’s literally their goal.
This is also how I see the movie Idiocracy vs Reality. Reality is plain worse
Yeah, the dummies said “bet” and no one has curbed their child rearing to reduce overall impact.
Careful with your wording. It is difficult to “curb” reproduction in a humane and democratic way.
Eugenicist, vile shit to say. The problem is the capital owners and billionaires/trillionaires, not the poor “idiots” breeding too much you absolute weapon.
Data centers are fast tracking climate change
Helps that Europe is warming faster than the global average. Karma, I guess.
Yet those most affected by heatwaves are elderly and chronically ill people who can‘t afford proper cooling technology.
It‘s not hurting those in power, it‘s hurting those already marginalised.
Karma for what?
Europe (alongside the USA and other countries of the “western world”) has been releasing disgusting amounts of climate change-inducing gases since the 18th century, and they (alongside the USA) were the main profiteers of climate pollution until the latter half of the 20th century. Arguably still are, though other countries like China and Brazil also play a part now.
Granted, this treats nations as monoliths, it’s not like the population of most countries really had a choice for the most part.
Anything is possible when you allocate the impact of commodities to the place where they were produced instead of the place where they were used 🤩
(This is the most common approach allocation, that doesn’t make it correct)
(Also this chart is gross not per capita so the fact that the US shows more emissions, even without the offshoring scam, until around 2000, is just w i l d)
The fact that Aviation and Maritime transports are visible, alongside large countries and continents emissions, is absolutely nuts.
In context: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?time=earliest…2024
Per capita Europe is close to world average. Your comment makes no sense.
(I’m a bit harsh)
Right now, yes, but for the vast majority of history it wasn’t even close. Your link shows that China only met the EU’s per capita emissions in 2013, when climate change was already pretty far along. And they are still profiting from their past emissions via the wealth and societal development that they generated back then.
That’s fair, but you can’t deny Europe has done much better than its counterparts for more than 2 decades. Europe is not the guilty one there.
But, consider this: there was a time from before two decades ago. There are rumours that there are even people who are older than 20. Scary, I know.
So you’re blaming mistakes made more than 20 years ago while forgetting those who were made since? Totally objective and fair opinion…
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What do you mean by karma? Europe is doing the most to stop global warming.
Source? Not to say they aren’t putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It’s just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it’s no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They’re also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they’re showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I’m curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
China is polluting because they produce the European and American stuff over there. On their own they’d still pollute but much less.
There are probably still plenty of people knocking about that will tell you “China is building a coal fired power plant per week”.
America could have had pioneer advantage but they fucked it because the political system there has been corrupted by money.
For example Israel bans private funding to politicians and political parties, it’s a criminal offence, funding is organised nationally from public funds, if US politicians didn’t whore themselves out to special interests it might actually start being able to represent the electorate
But since both parties have their snouts in the trough the country will continue to represent those that pay the most money first and foremost
It’s documented in every COP report. Our electricity is mostly carbon-free thanks to renewable and nuclear. Our industry is gone to China. Heating with fossil fuel is being replaced with electric installation and heat pumps…
China was polluting a lot more, that’s where a lot of room for improvement existed.
I remember I saw a statistics that China is producing twice more emmisions per person and USA four times more.
And I found this is pretty website with a lot of comparison Our World in Data - CO2 Emissions. Europe was producing almost exclusively til 1900 but since then USA dominated until China took over in 2000. According to the page, EU was responsible for 6.3% of all emissions in 2024, and Europe in total for 12.7%. Pretty much equal to USA emmisions. And while it is much more then South America, Africa and Oceania, it is still a fraction of Asia emmisions.
That bottom image is, like, the most aggressively chic weather forecast I’ve ever seen.
le weather
Scorchio!
“I feel better!”
“Shutup, you’re dead.”
cat in background, being swung, yowling
“Actually, might go for a walk.”
“I feel happy!”
“You’re not fooling anyone.”
Get on our level scrubs.
We are all gonna die!
But at least we generated value for the shareholders.
