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I am terrified of climate change (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll keep this short and sweet. Some random guy on the internet compiled together and summarized a bunch of climate research papers analyzing global trends and a bunch of different slow actors that are all going to kick in soon like the permafrost in Russia or the polar ice caps etc.

While I have not yet gone through the sources the author links and quotes extensively, this still has me extremely worried and I think that unless society somehow drastically changes and devotes a significant effort in doing something about it, we're all going to die within half a century.

I'm sorry for bringing doomerism into a safe space like Beehaw, but I'm scared and I can't sleep.

Also I'm not going to link the document in question because the author goes on a rant about billionaires and greed, and while I haven't decided whether or not I agree I'm not sure the tone fits the community.

Sorry again and have a good one !

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also think it's important to have hope for technological advancements. Carbon capture technology exists and is improving rapidly. We need to get to net zero, of course, but we can also go negative and cool the planet to pre-industrial levels.

The world is changing rapidly, both for the worse and for the better.

Yes, there is going to be a mass extinction event. But mass extinctions have happened before and biodiversity recovered. We also have technology to save species and reintroduce them later, too. A hundred years from now, when CO2 is back under control, who knows; maybe we'll be able to "print" extinct species' zygotes from saved DNA code.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The problem with carbon capture is that yes it exists, but is not nearly close to good enough for our needs. Add to that the fact that we physically do not have enough materials on Earth to implement it on the scale required and that becomes a tough pill to swallow.

I'm hopeful that some farming techniques may be promising and that not everyone's going to die, but relying on technology that doesn't really work yet seems foolish.

At any rate I'm not gonna sit around and twiddle my thumbs, I'm probably going to become an activist this summer instead and see where that takes me