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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years.

On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the Great Lakes were covered in ice, the lowest on record for the date, and well below the historical average of nearly 10% for this point in winter, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

This year’s missing ice in the Great Lakes adds to a growing trend of winter ailments plaguing the US, from dwindling snowpacks in the West to an ongoing snow drought in the Northeast, all becoming more common due to warming temperatures from the climate crisis.

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[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago

Cool cool. You go first, lead by example and others will follow.

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If only these problems could be solved by 1 person.

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

What, do you need a buddy system or something for your murder spree?

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -4 points 11 months ago

it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can't stop all of us.

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

So you spend your time on the internet trying to convince people to meet up with you irl and kill folk?

How's that working out for you, any takers?

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

i'm just a problem solver. i don't see how we can fix anything until the far right is destroyed. they will muddy the waters until it's too late. i'm genuinely asking you what alternative you see to making lasting change for the better. all we have to do is collectively agree that's what it's going to take and people will start figuring out how to organize.

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At this point climate collapse and resource depletion is going to take care of us all by the end of the century so imo damage mitigation is our best option.

Don't have kids. Go vegan. Reduce your consumption of items produced by slavery and sweatshops as much as possible.
Basically just do as much as you can to lower the amount of suffering you create by existing.

Killing people in the name of left wing politics is going to make things worse for everyone.

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago

it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can't stop all of us.

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -5 points 11 months ago

it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can't stop all of us.

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