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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-10-15 at 3 AM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Pretty amazing that you've met thousands of people that were all just alike. Everyone I have met has been different than every other person.
Like you, you're the only no-nosed know-nothing, Scaredy Prepper I've met, and I truly enjoy seeing how you react to the articles I post and reading your attempts at making up a narrative about who you think I am.
I don't read the articles you post. Therefore I can have no reaction to them.
You keep failing so hard. -
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2022-10-15 at 5:34 AM UTCYou wouldn't be posting in this thread at all if I hadn't been posting. Nearly everything you've said here has been as a reaction to something I posted.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-10-15 at 7:39 AM UTCVegas is like 2500 feet above sea level (or close to that.. and I was shocked to read this is true) but much of southern california south of LA spreading out toward pockets of Arizona and much of death valley is below or around sea level.
if the iceburgs melted and the sea really did rise 60 feet or more all of that would become basically apart of the ocean.
most condos might be 60 feet above the current sea level but most roads will be flooded out in patched areas. everyone will migrate to higher grounds like the Sierras or Colorado. -
2022-10-15 at 7:42 AM UTCSpeaking for the Bay Area, in honesty, they should have stopped building in the flat lands 200 years ago. and not populated this place so much. between Earthquakes and a possible icecap melt this place will be cleansed but in the wrongest way possible. unless you're a sadist and hate humans.
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2022-10-15 at 2:59 PM UTC
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2022-10-15 at 3:02 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingnessThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-10-15 at 3:28 PM UTCHow America’s descent into a failed state will happen, step by step
… the hollowing out of the country’s social support systems have made it undeniable that our civilization is increasingly unequipped to handle shocks. Hurricane Katrina with its massive needless suffering due to cruel neoliberal policies; Covid-19 with its more than half a million avoidable U.S. deaths due to the country’s lack of a universal healthcare system; last year’s California fires with their overburdening of a neoliberal state firefighting model which relies on prison slave labor; these are the ways that our late-stage capitalist socioeconomic paradigm has been multiplying the destruction from natural disasters and diseases, many of which have themselves been exacerbated by capitalism’s furthering of the climate crisis.
This is the brutal instrument through which our capitalist ruling class is worsening the current stage of our civilizational collapse, the stage where kleptocrats engineer ways to make the crises worse so that the desperate population can be looted further.
… as the country has been afflicted by increasingly severe fires, storms, and droughts along with a pandemic, those eager to profit from disaster have expanded upon this model of pushing out the most vulnerable. This systemic driving down of living standards in relation to the climate crisis and our recent public health catastrophe have been a vicious cycle; Covid-19 and the extreme weather events have both given neoliberal politicians an excuse for further deregulation, austerity, wage cuts, and privatization, and have been made more destructive by the neoliberal policies which existed prior to these events.
… Our ruling class, facing a decline of U.S. global hegemony and a weakening of capital as a result of the current “Greater Depression,” will squeeze us more than they’ve ever squeezed us. It’s estimated that the climate crisis will facilitate the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history, with the country’s poorest counties being expected to lose up to 20% of their income by the middle of the century.
… one in 12 Americans in the Southern half of the country will move toward California, the Mountain West or the Northwest over the next 45 years because of climate influences alone. Such a shift in population is likely to increase poverty and widen the gulf between the rich and the poor. It will accelerate rapid, perhaps chaotic, urbanization of cities ill-equipped for the burden, testing their capacity to provide basic services and amplifying existing inequities.
… Even this understates the magnitude of the migrant crisis we’re going to face. Those more temperate areas in the Pacific Northwest and the Mountain West are largely themselves going to be rendered uninhabitable; Lustgarten continues that “13 million Americans will be forced to move away from submerged coastlines. Add to that the people contending with wildfires and other risks, and the number of Americans who might move — though difficult to predict precisely — could easily be tens of millions larger.”
Throughout this deterioration of our social systems, we’re going to see ever more price gouging (as just happened in Texas when the deregulated electric companies took advantage of the storms there), ever more privatization, ever more deregulation, and ever more cutting off of social services. We’re also going to see ever more state repression, which at a certain point will cross the line into being not merely heavy-handed policing but actual domestic warfare.
… when the risk of a successful revolution gets substantial enough, the U.S. is going to bring its warfare tactics from abroad into our neighborhoods. A 2016 Pentagon training video anticipates that as unemployment, climatic disasters, and destitution proliferate throughout these next few decades, the military is going to have to invade some of the world’s largest cities-including ones like New York and Los Angeles-to retain Washington’s control over the increasingly unstable territories.
… likely, civilians will be deliberately targeted by the military to try to terrorize the population into not backing the rebel forces. As the Pentagon video warns, even 1% of the population supporting Washington’s adversaries in a large city will represent tens of thousands of people, people who the government can only treat as enemy combatants.
… We can also expect the carpet bombings, drone strikes, and careless troop killings of civilians that Washington carries out in its global wars to be brought home, along with other genocidal warfare tactics like blockades of food, water, and medical equipment. These tactics, in addition to the explicitly planned neighborhood-bulldozing and forced urban evacuations, are going to further multiply the country’s domestic migrant crises. Large parts of the country will become like Libya, Syria, Yemen, and the other places U.S. imperialism has destabilized.
… This [2019 Pentagon] report gives us a sense of the time frame in which the country will likely go from being increasingly dysfunctional to largely being a war zone, because it considers the potential for a collapse of the U.S. power grid within “the next 20 years.” If this is the number that the military intelligentsia have honed in on while speculating about when a larger social breakdown will happen, and therefore when such domestic military interventions will be carried out, we can at least say that the military’s anticipated war will fairly likely happen before 2040.
… The report expects these ever-growing demands for domestic military intervention because as it says, “Most of the critical infrastructures identified by the Department of Homeland Security are not built to withstand these altered conditions.” It explains that “The power grid that serves the United States is aging and continues to operate without a coordinated and significant infrastructure investment. Vulnerabilities exist to electricity-generating power plants, electric transmission infrastructure and distribution system components.” Consequently, the “increased energy requirements” from a changing climate will overstretch “an already fragile system.”
… It’s estimated that over the next fifty years, around a fifth of the world’s currently habitable land is going to be rendered uninhabitable by global warming. In the United States, the parts that undergo this process will largely consist of the low-lying areas of the coasts, the localities which will be made unlivable due to the heat (for perspective on what this means, eventually Las Vegas will be so hot that no one living there can safely go outside), and the places that will be rendered unlivable due to fires and other disasters (like Southern California). -
2022-10-15 at 3:32 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingness
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2022-10-15 at 3:33 PM UTCMore fear... it's so thick ITT
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2022-10-15 at 3:59 PM UTCAlaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs
An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said. It marks a 90% drop in their population.
"Environmental conditions are changing rapidly," Daly said. "We've seen warm conditions in the Bering Sea the last couple of years, and we're seeing a response in a cold adapted species, so it's pretty obvious this is connected. It is a canary in a coal mine for other species that need cold water."
