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World hits 12 straight months of record-high temperatures — but as warming continues, it'll be "remembered as comparatively cold"

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago
[-] loaf@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

It really is. It’s already bordering on intolerable. By 2050, I assume only the wealthy will have the luxury of not dying from a heat stroke.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 25 points 1 month ago

it wasn't until all the workers where dead that they realized labour is the source of all capital but by then it was too late.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 43 points 1 month ago

Buy more cars, iphones, fast fashion, actually... just keep consuming people. Nothing to see here.

[-] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't put that on Americans alone.

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I think you mean most of the world.

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago
[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

Don’t even need the thumbnail to know what this meme is.

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Ah I see you have good taste in meme’s. 👍

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I don't know how we can be saved or save ourselves...

[-] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's easier said than done: make the untouchables pay.

Grim reality is the untouchables will continue to rule with absolute greed while climate change drives us into pockets of extremism where we kill each other.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

People need to learn who is harming them. It's not the immigrants. It's not minorities or the Jews or women or atheists or Muslims or the woke. But it requires reading and education which they've been making harder and harder to do or get the time and energy to do.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago
[-] neomachino@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Genuine question.

What can I, an average Joe, do about global warming?

I compost, grow a lot of my own food, recycle, avoid plastic as much as possible, built a little solar system along my fence that powers probably 20% of the house.

I feel like I do a lot more than the average person and still know it's not enough. Even if every consumer did their part would it be enough to counteract the pollution from the conglomerates? It doesn't feel like it.

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Same as with anything that needs a collection of people to make a change. You just do it so that more people start to do it and at some point that number of people is large enough that it makes a dent. Or more likely, large enough that companies realise potential for profit and invest more into it, making a positive feedback loop.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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