Conversations on the weekend circled around the inevitability of our extinction. As we have passed the point of no return in our extinction plan.
The latest UN report confirms this.
"Earth’s climate system is changing across the entire planet and human activities are worsening its effects which are “widespread, rapid and intensifying”, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
"The report by leading climate scientists published on Monday provides evidence that “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 degrees or even 2 degrees will be beyond reach”.
"Such as a scenario will come with inevitable catastrophic impacts over coming decades for human populations, especially in the form of extreme weather events and rising sea levels, the report’s authors have warned."
I'm not in fear of all of this and I don't share the opinions of many, e.g.
(1) There's an afterlife and God/Goddess etc. will save us all.
(2) It's another exaggeration to curb our Free-Dumbs.
(3) Science will save us.
(4)Glass domes over cities with AC will ease the worst of it. (I'd like to see that!)
And on.
No one thinks of the climate refugees escaping from waterless environments and the devastating effects of forest fires. California has never experienced anything like them, along with BC here. And massive food shortages.
I spent time in a roasting hot Labrador this summer - no one had ever experienced that kind of heat up there.
And the humidity and heat on the island of Newfoundland this summer is extreme and unique. And grain is being grown for the first time. And our iceberg season was pitiful.
The flooding is alarming everywhere.
We've all been warned, of course, of this end of days, but nothing of any major reversal has been done to halt the rapid progress of warming oceans.
Capitalism roars on. Gas is supreme still. The plundering of the Amazon (the lungs of the earth) continues
I compare our slumber to the Three Wise Monkeys of old.
Not that us individuals can do anything at all. But I do wonder who else is giving any thoughts to what is going to happen and if you are, like me, resigned to the inevitable and hoping that whatever cataclysmic event wipes our little section of the planet into extinction, it doesn't hurt too much. But then I'm old and may pass before everything gets worse.
Or maybe, just maybe, the new virus variants will take us all out first.
Another excellent read from Science Daily.
Sigh.
ReplyDeleteAnd our politicians continue to ignore it - and approve the obscenities of fracking and more coal mining. I despair.
Me too, though oddly not despairing at the inevitable. We here in Newfoundland are still mining the oceans for ever more oil. It's like we're all asleep with no one taking the helm of the ship. I'm supposing there will be riots at some point but too late....
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Growth and progress are still the gods of the day. It seems not a question of 'if' but 'when'.
ReplyDeleteI believe that there is a God, but He is not going to save us against our will.
I think it more comfortable to believe this is IT. Eternal life seems very undesirable to me. Doing what exactly? And who would want us anyway?
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I heard the other day Russia is making rain with drones and electrical charges in the sky.
ReplyDeleteIf that can be done , other things can as well
That's being experimented with for a while now, it may save small sections of the planet but the greenhouse gas effect is already catastrophic.
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What I have found very interesting, here in Australia at least is that while governments bang on about the need for new coal and gas fired power stations capitalism is not having a bar of them and won't invest in them. Instead capital is going in to renewable energy and battery storage as is the money consumers are putting out for solar panels and batteries. There is hope and while science won't solve anything, following the science will help. I very much doubt the chickens will come home to roost in our lifetime, but the next generation or two is going to suffer. Nice work by you.
ReplyDeleteWe're not moving fast enough Andrew. I had a completely off the grid cabin for many years, hoping others would follow, but no, we're too addicted to on-demand everything.
DeleteI worry about my kids and grandkids though. I'm hoping they will change things.
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I'm more or less resigned, while trying to do my bit to not pollute too much, but I still hope those with the money and power to do so will see the light and build the necessary infrastructure (dams and piplines etc) to provide water and the ability to grow food to the starving nations.
ReplyDeleteMe too River. But despair at the likes of Bezos spending the economy of a small country on ridiculous 60 mile flights into the sky. And more like him with palaces and gold.
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I simply cannot fathom where this will end, and am grateful I should be dead.
ReplyDeleteMe too Joanne, a blessing but so worrisome for those beloveds we leave behind.
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Something must happen with China..they put out as much pollution as the rest of the world combined.
ReplyDeleteI believe GP that Bangladesh has the most pollution. But then most countries are doing so little to curb greenhouse gases.
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And no one talks about limiting population growth.
ReplyDeleteDear Mary, that would put the entertainment industry (with their non-stop fornication agenda) out of business - about half the babies born, are born out of wedlock.
DeleteMary, the problem is the poverty and lack of birth control and keeping women uneducated. Educating women is the beginning of their empowerment.
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Sue see my reply to Mary. I can't see any connection to wedlock and Hollywood in the overpopulation of the world.
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I agree that education is important in curbing population and not just for women. I was thinking more of the impact of population growth on all our resources.
DeleteI am not resigned to the worst case scenario. I can't tell you how we will avoid what seems inevitable but I choose to believe we must continue doing whatever we each may do to preserve this planet. I have confidence scientists are at work seeking more ways to address some of these issues. I think more people are waking up to reality and maybe more positive actions will be taken. The combination of all this may in fact put us on a road to eventually successfully correcting this situation. I likely will not live to see the outcome but will continue striving as best I can, in my own little way as I believe more will do, too, in the challenge to save our planet.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are right Joared but I fail to see how rampant capitalism with its agenda of plundering continually this finite planet can be halted in our lifetime. I remember what Michael Moore said one time, something like: What does it take to stop this incessant greed? "Does the sun have to come up at midnight to get our attention?"
DeleteI find the wealthier people I know do not care a fig for climate change and put it down to scaremongering.
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Dear Wisewebwoman and Friends, global warming is a fact. Revelations talks about when the sun gets so hot, it scorches people, and they curse God.
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DeleteLike Joared I am not resigned to the worst case scenario. Our progeny and descendants will definitely live in a very different world but not necessarily a better world. Our education as a species has been accelerated, whether we pass or fail remains to be seen. Final exams not yet written, humanity must step up its game in the last hours.
ReplyDeleteP.S. - After reading your post I read ranprieur.com’s post for August 9, very a propos! Ran suggests we are at the confluence of 3 major threats, only one of which is climate change. What a thriller!
DeleteI wonder about stepping up the game Annie. Severe legislation and all kinds of rationing would need to be implemented but then the Free-Dumb peeps would arm themselves and civil war, etc., etc. If they can't wear masks they certainly won't stop consumption.
DeleteDo you have a link to the post?
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It is just ranprieur.com. Look for the August 9 date, which right now is at the top.
DeleteThanks Annie, most interesting read.
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The one comfort that I have is that I shall perhaps not live long enough to see the worst of it. Since at the individual level, there is little that I can do about it, my attitude is "que sera sera".
ReplyDeleteSo very true Ramana, I must admit to feeling that kind of sangfroid also apart from the fears my kids/grandkids will suffer.
DeleteI do hope our planet gets a grip.
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil indeed. Still far too many politicians and organisations pretending everything's just fine, a few tweaks here and there will get us back on the right road. Like you, Jenny and I are assuming the inevitable - humanity will be wiped out through continuing political inertia.
ReplyDeleteMy feelings too, alas, Nick. When I see the US particularly and their refusal to wear masks - to me it is symptomatic of all that is so crazy in this world. I am seeing evidence all around me of making this a political game when we have the capacity of halting this lemming-like plunge over climate cliffs.
DeleteWe are a dismal species, a pestilence on the face of the earth. Rapacious in our non-stop greed.
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There sure isn't much to feel hopeful about in terms of climate, is there?
ReplyDeleteNone whatsoever SAW. I think it is those fierce storms I dread the most, the ones that collapse towns and obliterate everyone.
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You should read Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty if you haven't already. It would give you hope that the young people growing up today are going to be better guardians of planet than our generation has been.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope so Molly, we need to change and very quickly.
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I believe that the earth has a huge capacity to heal if only it is given the chance. Unfortunately we might have missed the boat on that. Yes, I despair, if anything was going to drive me to suicide it would be climate catastrophe.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of will to change this is just staggering
Oh, and despite being deeply religious, I don't think God has any obligation to rescue us from our own mess.
DeleteI do believe Gaia has the power to heal herself but only if she tosses off the pestilence that is us. Our "evolution" has brought us to this reckoning.
DeleteWe need to stock up on hemlock.
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COVID is possibly the big "toss off".
DeleteI hope you are feeling better.
One day at a time...the big picture is more than we can handle at one time, sometimes.
Doom gloom. What can we do?
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DeleteI think there's a lot we can do if only to make ourselves feel better.
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Yes, I think of all that is happening to our good earth. We've really fouled it up. I don't expect to live long enough to experience the worst of it, but I am concerned about my children and grandchildren. I do believe there is much we can still do and definitely should. I don't know how successful we'll be in preserving our planet but we need to make the effort despite all the "flat-earther types", some of whose actions, or inactions, seem to be trying to making the coming of the end of the world a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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