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And then the inevitable day or week or so where it's unseasonably cold before we barrel into another couple months of record breaking heat. But during those weeks I will be told innumerable times "so much for global warming! This idiots don't know anything!"

"ever recorded" - there was nobody around to record the formation of the earth.

Also when the impactor that hit us to form the moon melted the surface of the planet I bet it was pretty toasty.

Its not really a matter of if I care. I cannot sway billionaires, the ones who put us into this situation. I cannot make them stop destroying the planet. They do not care what I think, and they are solely motivated by profits. Nothing else. They have no morality, no sensibilities, no sympathy, and they have absolutely no desire to do literally anything about the unfolding climate crisis. They don't care. They'd double emissions in a heartbeat if they'd make a few cents off of it. God knows they've done it before, and they've done much worse for much less money.

Until the money billionaires have stolen from us is rightfully given back to us, we have no means of intervening directly ourselves. The only other option is insurrectionary revolution. Those in the ruling class have shown us consistently over the last 150 years that they have callous disregard for the environment and for the future of humanity. They have shown time and again they will ignore all warnings, they will dismiss all concerns, they are apathetic to human life, and are solely focused on the accumulation of stolen wealth. There's no middle ground here. If we want to do something meaningful to mitigate this crisis, the billionaires and the ruling class have to go.

I had a slight glimmer of hope at the start of covid-19, when people were dazed and confused and isolating and waiting for a vaccine. At the very start, I actually thought humanity is proving we're not that bad.

The rest is history now.

Guillotine

Lots of planets out there, maybe another has life, and you can be snail-like creature on beta-kapsilon 114-3b

For the love of christ, stop saying that. Every single time someone makes this comment. We. Get. It.

Agreed, we and other land mammals will suffer greatly, but life on Earth is hearty and just as the great George Carlin said, once we're gone, the planet will heal itself from the failed mutation that was homo sapien.

4-5 degrees? You are optimistic. I bet I get to see 3 degrees in my lifetime as we will blast by each and every exit ramps. Not only that we'll also be drifting on the highway, because it looks cool.

"Nuclear power scares me"

Welcome to the result. It's sad, because nuclear power was the way, but instead we propegandized against it and continued to use it as a boogie man.

Ignoring the fact that coal and natural gas still hurt and kill people daily, ignoring there's over 400 nuclear power reactors that are still active, 93 in America... But no.. "Chernobyl" and the discussion ends.

Also Chernobyl was a 50 year old design, and happened 40 years ago, involved multiple human errors ... nah can't consider things have changed since then.

Now we have people using another nuclear plant in Ukraine as an example, and again the fear rises. They're trying to weaponize the plant, but somehow it's "Nuclear power" and not the fact some fuckheads are planning to destroy it in a destructive fashion that's the problem.

Somehow dams that would be devistating to destroy are given a pass, but hey Nuclear power, so scary.

The weather will be more like a monkeys paw....u wish for a bit more rain....here is some floods instead..

I mean, to be fair, at this point humanity can claim extensive experience in the area of planet scale terraforming.

We're doing it as we speak!