Probably cause deep down we know something is happening and it feels like shits about to hit the fan. Ocean temperatures are skyrocketing and we can’t pretend everything is fine like we have for the past couple of years
The scientist expected it to not look like this, it is not due to the solar maximum, literally no one has any idea why the oceans are not cooling. The best idea we have is that something is different than it was a couple of years ago, but afaik no one has been able to pin down exactly what it is thats causing the surge in ocean temps. And this is in 2024, when the warming is supposed to be manageable, imagine it in 2100 and beyond. We are fucked, been fucked for years, we just pretend like we have some control over nature. Full system collapse around 2050 at the latest by most estimates, and thats the optimistic outlook on the future. The capitalist system might just keep grinding along, destroying everything and everyone in its path until there is nothing left to consume.
Things in generally seem to be getting worse for at least a decade, especially for those born in this century.
Granted, the whole Ecological problems thing has been going on for longer, though there were some improvements in the 70s (polution controls that stopped acid rain) and the 90s (replacing CFCs and reverting the hole in the Ozone layer) but even some of those things were partially reverted in the last decade or two (the whole Diesel Emissions Scandal is to a large extent about emissions of the very same stuff that caused acid rain and hole in Ozone layer is growing again apparently due to CFC use in China).
As many have pointed out, the reversal of the trend of improvement in the median quality of life is probably because we’ve reached Late Stage Neoliberal Capitalism.
For some it’s doom and gloom for others it’s flourish and best times since forever. Such is life
Ancient cycle of bad good bad good as old as history.
Still, we are lucky to be born in first world countries, we probably share that in common, so our situation is from the start nicer than 80% of the world.
I recently discovered I suffer a lot of victim mentality which constrained me and probably made me partly insufferable so maybe it is something that troubles you too or not
Lots of doomer posts lately
Probably cause deep down we know something is happening and it feels like shits about to hit the fan. Ocean temperatures are skyrocketing and we can’t pretend everything is fine like we have for the past couple of years
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Ah, a science denier. Fuck off back to your fascist friends.
Big brain time here
We are at a solar maximum, and we’re supposed to go down now. But we aren’t. We’re going up.
The scientist expected it to not look like this, it is not due to the solar maximum, literally no one has any idea why the oceans are not cooling. The best idea we have is that something is different than it was a couple of years ago, but afaik no one has been able to pin down exactly what it is thats causing the surge in ocean temps. And this is in 2024, when the warming is supposed to be manageable, imagine it in 2100 and beyond. We are fucked, been fucked for years, we just pretend like we have some control over nature. Full system collapse around 2050 at the latest by most estimates, and thats the optimistic outlook on the future. The capitalist system might just keep grinding along, destroying everything and everyone in its path until there is nothing left to consume.
We hope and pray that those who doom are wrong.
Hopes and prayers are famously good science
Which is why doomers don’t science. They feels.
Have you, like, vaguely gestures at everything
Seriously it happened very quickly, what’s going on? Did lemmy get linked to some sad doomer community elsewhere on the internet?
I think there was another reddit influx. Not sure how large. Or what prompted it.
OP’s account is almost 1 year old. This is easy to check…
Was talking about the general tone of Lemmy of late, not the OP specifically. This is easy to surmise from context clues…
I tend to notice the Reddit Influxes because I get more people going “Religion Bad, Upvotes to the left!”
Religion do be bag tho
Maybe, because, this shit is serious and we can’t keep pushing it off?
Things in generally seem to be getting worse for at least a decade, especially for those born in this century.
Granted, the whole Ecological problems thing has been going on for longer, though there were some improvements in the 70s (polution controls that stopped acid rain) and the 90s (replacing CFCs and reverting the hole in the Ozone layer) but even some of those things were partially reverted in the last decade or two (the whole Diesel Emissions Scandal is to a large extent about emissions of the very same stuff that caused acid rain and hole in Ozone layer is growing again apparently due to CFC use in China).
As many have pointed out, the reversal of the trend of improvement in the median quality of life is probably because we’ve reached Late Stage Neoliberal Capitalism.
Lots of “sticking your head in the sand” comments lately.
For some it’s doom and gloom for others it’s flourish and best times since forever. Such is life
Ancient cycle of bad good bad good as old as history.
Still, we are lucky to be born in first world countries, we probably share that in common, so our situation is from the start nicer than 80% of the world.
I recently discovered I suffer a lot of victim mentality which constrained me and probably made me partly insufferable so maybe it is something that troubles you too or not