5 Years to Fix the Climate Catastrophe
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I don't know if this is a legitimate Herodotus quote, but it is one that I resonate with more and more lately. It's just all so frustrating. I'm watching the world burn and it seems like not enough people care, especially not those with the power to implement change. I just saw a new study saying that instead of the 12 year estimate for dealing with climate change, there may only be 5 years. Honestly sort of getting to a "What's the point?" state, and want to go make an off grid community and try to survive the coming apocalypse
Here is the article, which states that we need to have a transformation of our industrial system to have any hope of preventing huge climactic issues, and that has to happen within five years. Do I think it's likely? I'm not sure anymore. I know it's entirely possible. Look at the World War II industry changes. Look at the Space Race. When humanity comes together with a singular goal, it's amazing what can be accomplished. The issue is that because of our scarcity based system, everyone is struggling so hard to survive to tomorrow that they can't work towards fixing what comes after that. The much bigger, existential threat that is looming on the horizon. People keep putting it off, because they need to work to pay their rent, buy food, pay off debts, etc etc. Until a huge number of people understand the incompatibility of a system based on infinite growth with the natural world, I don't think things will improve.
It's getting very, very hard to stay optimistic.
Until next time,
Namaste
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My years may be wrong, but I remember in I think the very late 80's to mid 90's all sorts of gloom and doom talk about peak oil and how we were going to run out by 2010.
Then there was the to many trees are being cut down scare and we are deforesting the forest and that was going to cause global catastrophic climate change because there would not be enough trees to soak up the carbon dioxide we exhale an convert it to oxygen for us to breath, and now we have whole islands of plastic floating about in the ocean, and the idiots that banned paper bags back to paper bags because plastic bags are polluting everything.
Then there was the gloom and doom disaster scenarios of the computers not being able to handle the change of going from 1999 to 2000. Oh and lets not forget all about the man who invented the internet and told us all about how hot the earth was going to get in 10 years if we did not do something then, Mr Al Gore.
I don't know for how many years in a row they keep talking about a 2.5 degree Celsius rise causing all sorts of disasters, I think the first time that number was drug out from the so called climate scientist was 40 years ago with their first computer climate models, and it has been that number ever since and it is always 5-10 year span that the rise is going to happen. One day they may be right, but I doubt that they will be right in 5 years.
So my recommendation, take a pinch of salt throw it over your left shoulder, and mumble some pray of thanks to what ever all mighty you believe in to fix it, document your prayer, and in five years drag it out and show people how powerful your all might was in preventing the disaster just because you asked them to intervene.
In other words, I would not overly worry about any of it. Look at the past predictions of the so called alarmist scientist and see how wrong they were, and how the manipulate the numbers to then show you that you did not understand what they said, or the claims that the numbers kept on paper written down by people and not computers were wrong, or that the person that input the numbers in the computer made a mistake. They always justify their failures for it not happening, when they said it would.
Well, that's likely because there were not good estimates of oil reserves in the world, because there have never been global surveys of resources, which I think is problematic in itself.
Deforestation is a real issue, but as the oceans create most of our oxygen that would not have really been an issue. Oceanic problems are huge though. Plastic is a massive problem, and if nothing is done to fix it, it will only worsen. Also, the acidification of the ocean is wreaking havoc on the natural systems that keep phytoplankton thriving. That actually could cause oxygen problems in the world, as so is a serious issue. Plus, the thermal energy the ocean is absorbing along with the mass quantities of freshwater are going to cause massive current shifts, which will cause essentially unknowable changes to the world's climate.
The Y2K crisis was pretty blown out of proportion, but there were numerous experts at the time saying it was a non-issue. Very few are saying that now. And while Al Gore may have been a little early, if humanity would have adopted changes back then things would be better now.
I also don't know how long the 2.5 number has been used. However, we just recently reached the PPM CO2 concentration that was associated with it. And, newer models are taking into account feedback loops that were not considered previously. Such as the vastly reduced albedo of the Arctic regions of the world meaning even faster warming in those places. Or the increaed methane released from permafrost thawing. Those changes are rapidly increasing the rate of warming, and they will only accelerate.
I don't believe in any almighty beings or prayer. I am incredibly worried, because all science I have seen recently points to massive problems. Look at the documentary "Our Planet" on Netflix. There are changes, drastic changes, that we can see happening now. They're impacting wildlife in horrific ways, and it's only getting worse.
I think everyone needs to be far more worried than they are. That's the only way people will do anything to fix this with the urgency that it needs fixing. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe all the scientists are wrong. But, would making a more efficient, sustainable, less wasteful world really be a bad thing to push for, regardless of whether or not the climate change issue was part of it? I don't think so.
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I do not think it would be a bad thing either, but the scientist and the news pundits, and the alarmist need to stop throwing this scenario or that scenario in front of peoples faces and demanding that things be changed to suit their political agendas. All the things I mentioned were taken seriously at the time. They were all doom and gloom the world is going to end in blah blah year or we are this close to total catastrophic failure.
Tell a man or woman he is going to die in 3 years and they are very unlikely to care about planing for the survival of anyone else. They are going to take on the me first attitude and damn the rest. Pretty much what all these alarmist are doing, trying to get people to see their false concern while they make money and plan for a future and the general populace does not. So in five years they will all be richer, using up more of, or creating more of, what ever position they were pushing. History is full of self serving people of this type get rich on the backs of others fears.
So this may be the time that their "cry of wolf" is correct, I seriously doubt it. People really need to stop listening to the alarmist and doom and gloomer's and get off their asses and make what ever changes they think needs to be done. But when they become a part of the problem we have to do this to stop this they become a part and parcel of the problem.
Educating people that 2 + 2 = 6, is not solving the problem. False education based on false assumptions is still a false answer.
Well.. I have read about the massive campaign since I was a kid in the late 1980s, the change from using woods to cook meals to gasoline stove and now liquid gas and electricity. Blame the big massive paper, gadgets, electronic industries for it. No matter how hard our government issued the regulations to stop deforestration.. it still happens anyway. Greediness has no end I think.
I think about how can I do something about it, I bring seeds wherever I go, I plant it in the suitable place to grow, no litter anywhere and keep it for myself. I joined a group of people who collect donation from anyone and bought some lands (critical areas) then we grow our own forest, action speak louder than words😊