• pedz@lemmy.ca
    57·
    1 day ago

    Maybe if we have cheaper gas, burn more oil, buy even more stuff, and concentrate on having a strong economy, things will get better?

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    12·
    1 day ago

    I’ll be honest even as someone who studies the climate pretty extensively I didn’t think it would be this bad yet.

    • gandalf_der_12te
      1·
      8 hours ago

      California has wildfires every other year, so that’s not that much of a surprise to me.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Not in January and not that destroy entire neighborhoods in urban areas. This is unlike any historical fire in multiple ways.

        I understand if you just casually read the news from afar this might seem normal but trust me it isn’t. You might also be suffering from shifting baseline syndrome.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 day ago

    Huh. So Sarah lives in L.A. and can accurately predict the future. I gotta ask her about some lotto numbers…

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    111·
    1 day ago

    In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Earth actually lasts another two hundred years from now before catastrophic changes happen, and that’s pretty depressing in the context of what’s already happening irl.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        coz thats where the money is /I would s, but omg

        dammit speed running enshittification is obvious profit. I hate your obvious rightness.

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 day ago

    “So it worked! Now I return to 1025 and destroy all the knowledge of this time machine.”