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OT: We are so screwed

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  • Does the monkey even realize he’s insulting the creator?

  • @AudioGus said:
    Know of any videos or listenable sources (podcasts etc) that can break this down for me while I work?

    In nutshell:

    • number of people increased 4x in 20st century
    • but it will increase just 2x in 21st century

    Shortly after 2100 number of people living on earth will start decline...

  • @JeffChasteen said:

    @MonzoPro said:
    The new ignore button has suddenly come in handy for this thread.

    Amen, brother.

    I'm with you there.

  • @dendy said:

    @AudioGus said:
    Know of any videos or listenable sources (podcasts etc) that can break this down for me while I work?

    In nutshell:

    • number of people increased 4x in 20st century
    • but it will increase just 2x in 21st century

    Shortly after 2100 number of people living on earth will start decline...

    Sounds like the problem will take care of itself then. Unless I am missing something. ;)

  • The real meltdown will commence when we liberate the methane in the ocean, anything between now and then will only be a catastrophe.

  • @AudioGus said:

    It is pretty horrible (packaging etc) but I have heard that recycling does not actually make much difference (except with aluminum) and that the process is very wasteful and more of a political device than a real solution with results.

    I have thought this same thought virtually every time I sort the recycling (twice a week for about ten years). In America, now that China has gotten out of accepting our recycling (or is going to, I'm not sure) , states are still recycling but merely hauling it all off to landfills. Sad! Aluminum is way better than plastic, but replacing all plastic containers with aluminum would probably be well beyond practical for obvious reasons. Glass is likely best practically, but it's heavy, dangerous and generates little money for those who do what I do.

    On another piece of this discussion, concern for the climate isn't something that's come along in only our generation. The Bible, which I've read (as they say, the book is better than the movie), predicts that at the end of the age we live in humanity will be suffering from high temperatures and massive water pollution! No word on recycling though.

    But as far as us as individuals, my advice: Do what you can, but don't let the current situation (politics, media, pollution, et. al.) wreak your enjoyment of your life. Hopelessness is a poison. Enjoy your loved ones, exercise your talents, contribute to the lives of others generously and enjoy some junk food now and then.

  • @Clam said:

    But as far as us as individuals, my advice: Do what you can, but don't let the current situation (politics, media, pollution, et. al.) wreak your enjoyment of your life. Hopelessness is a poison. Enjoy your loved ones, exercise your talents, contribute to the lives of others generously and enjoy some junk food now and then.

    I can do that! Clam for president.

  • @AudioGus said:

    @Clam said:

    But as far as us as individuals, my advice: Do what you can, but don't let the current situation (politics, media, pollution, et. al.) wreak your enjoyment of your life. Hopelessness is a poison. Enjoy your loved ones, exercise your talents, contribute to the lives of others generously and enjoy some junk food now and then.

    I can do that! Clam for president.

    Yeah wtf I vote for Clam too.

  • If nominated I won't run. If elected I won't serve. Just send money, thanks!

  • @Michael said:
    In case you missed it, in Doom and Gloom news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report

    "Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken." "The next 18 months will be crucial."

    Good thing environment is front and centre in western politics right now 😂😭

    😀😃😄😬😐😶😑😣😖😫😩😭😢😞😔😟😦😧🤔😱🤯 daily
    with some
    😡🤬🤢😷😴🤒🤪🤗😒 thrown in

    everytime I think or read about our and the rest of life on this planet's situation.

  • @Clam said:

    @AudioGus said:

    It is pretty horrible (packaging etc) but I have heard that recycling does not actually make much difference (except with aluminum) and that the process is very wasteful and more of a political device than a real solution with results.

    I have thought this same thought virtually every time I sort the recycling (twice a week for about ten years). In America, now that China has gotten out of accepting our recycling (or is going to, I'm not sure) , states are still recycling but merely hauling it all off to landfills. Sad! Aluminum is way better than plastic, but replacing all plastic containers with aluminum would probably be well beyond practical for obvious reasons. Glass is likely best practically, but it's heavy, dangerous and generates little money for those who do what I do.

    On another piece of this discussion, concern for the climate isn't something that's come along in only our generation. The Bible, which I've read (as they say, the book is better than the movie), predicts that at the end of the age we live in humanity will be suffering from high temperatures and massive water pollution! No word on recycling though.

    But as far as us as individuals, my advice: Do what you can, but don't let the current situation (politics, media, pollution, et. al.) wreak your enjoyment of your life. Hopelessness is a poison. Enjoy your loved ones, exercise your talents, contribute to the lives of others generously and enjoy some junk food now and then.

    And plant a fucking tree....

  • Great thread guys! I'm sorry I slept through it! Damn Australian time zone.

  • edited May 2019

    @Michael said:
    In case you missed it, in Doom and Gloom news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report

    "Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken." "The next 18 months will be crucial."

    Good thing environment is front and centre in western politics right now 😂😭

    Unfortunately the West is no longer leading or better can lead in this post-colonial world. It's ironic to see that a strong West could probably turned the climate tables. But the World has changed since 1945. Which makes it very hard so not impossible to deal with global issues. Corruption is everywhere and widespread.
    Besides that a lot of the ideas from the West are also not that creative. Which has much to do with subsidized and corrupted practices of placing windmills and solar panels everywhere. Besides that we need real creative solutions, we also need everybody everywhere convinced that we need to take action. As long as there are everywhere corrupt regimes there's lots of poverty everywhere and the population growth is still exploding beyond imagination (especially in Africa and parts of Asia) I pessimistic and sceptical about the future.

  • Our governments are indeed totally useless right now, but one thing we have going for us (one can also argue it imperils us further, of course) is our rate of tech development, as has already been invoked on this thread.

    Tech is the one wildcard, it seems to me, the thing that could enable a small group of people to make a difference, as it's unlikely we'll see widespread mobility or top down change in time. (Not that we shouldn't keep trying, of course. Elections coming up.)

    AI is the other interesting thing in the mix; there are some very bright and knowledgeable people who see the prospect of general AI representing our biggest existential threat; or our most promising salvation, if it turns out we can solve the alignment problem.

    Anyway, interesting times. Having our little boy has made it quite a lot more personal and pressing.

  • @MonkeyDrummer said:

    @ALB said:
    @Michael - thanks for the post. This is an issue that goes beyond politics.

    BS. This is pure politics.

    Most of these "scientists" and "foundations" are funded by the same loons that think the crap written on the Georgia Guidestone is a god idea.

    Documented bad science on ACC
    Corruption in pretty much EVERY large environmental agency
    Etc.

    It's a bunch of earth-first wack-jobs that would be perfectly content if you and everyone you know die so some "endangered" newt can flourish in some swamp no one has ever seen. and most of these Urban Sierra Club EcoNazis have never been to any real nature in their lives.

    You want to give up internal combustion cars and drive your plague cart with free-range donkeys and eat bug infested, low-yield kale, be my guest. No one is stopping you. But stop trying to pretend you know ANYTHING about even medium term climate models, let alone long term.

    There's more CO2 put out by a medium-sized volcano that ALL of the cars that have EVER been produced...

    And why the fuck is stupid topic even on a music site anyway. And least file this tripe into

    No, not BS at all. This is an existential threat, not politics.

  • edited May 2019

    @Ripper7620 said:
    I believe that when you examine the true agenda of the powers behind man-made global climate change, what you find is a spirit of divisiveness. They do not actually care which side you take personally, only that the two sides remain relatively equal in numbers to each other, so that what we do, is to spend all of our time and energy arguing with each other, as opposed to exposing their true agendas, which is to eventually have total control over everything that we believe and think, and ultimately, what we can do. The same thing can be said of the political landscape as well. Both sides, right and left, have in numbers, remained relatively equal. The purpose of which, is to keep us arguing with each other, rather than focusing on their true agenda, which again, is to ultimately control everything that we can do, say, and think. They want a central one world power, and one world religion, and to control all aspects of both.

    Um, 🖐 hi 👋! My name is Dave, I’m from a small town in anywhere USA. I have a question, who exactly are “they”? Inquiring minds want to know.

  • @audiblevideo said:

    @Ripper7620 said:
    I believe that when you examine the true agenda of the powers behind man-made global climate change, what you find is a spirit of divisiveness. They do not actually care which side you take personally, only that the two sides remain relatively equal in numbers to each other, so that what we do, is to spend all of our time and energy arguing with each other, as opposed to exposing their true agendas, which is to eventually have total control over everything that we believe and think, and ultimately, what we can do. The same thing can be said of the political landscape as well. Both sides, right and left, have in numbers, remained relatively equal. The purpose of which, is to keep us arguing with each other, rather than focusing on their true agenda, which again, is to ultimately control everything that we can do, say, and think. They want a central one world power, and one world religion, and to control all aspects of both.

    Um, 🖐 hi 👋! My name is Dave, I’m from a small town in anywhere USA. I have a question, who exactly are “they”? Inquiring minds want to know.

    You know... not us.

  • @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    & The only reason I say that website is a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen.

    So you have facts that prove their predictions are wrong? It'd be great to see them, then we can all relax and carry on shitting out polluitants into the sea.

    @BroCoast said:

    Did I ever claim to have such facts?

    Well, they do. Since you're dismissing them I can only assume you have some pretty hefty counter-arguements.

    You made a statement, that the Friends of the Earth website is: "a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen".

    I'm guessing if you really believe that, and their promotion of, for example, 'The IPBES Global biodiversity assessment report' which states “Human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before. Around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of drivers of biodiversity loss”, then you have some pretty strong facts to prove otherwise?

    Is this all just a fantasy, in your opinion?

    You're making this into something it isn't.

    Really all I did was express my opinion on some EU environmental policies and you have made this about that website, Brexit and proceeded to make me your enemy.

    But since it must be about that website...

    It's main objective is to use predictions to sway people politically. That does not mean in any way that I believe that any of the material they use is fantasy.

    The problem is you are upset about what I said about that website. You have already made up your mind that I do not care about the environment like you do.

  • @MonzoPro said:

    @Treesarenice said:
    Plant more trees. Spread more love.

    X

    I love trees. I've spent most of my life trying to scrape enough money together to be able to afford a place witha bit of land, so I can plant some woodland. Not happened yet, and I notice these days the first thing people who do have the money do when they get somewhere, is chop all the trees down and sell the land off as a building plot. The people with the money don't love trees, which is why we're in the mess we are.

    So true! And then, the people with indecent huge bunch of money, are now buying or building self sustainable bunkers. When the world collapse, they will watch the rest of us die of starvation.

    "Sitting on the hillside
    Watching all the people die
    I'll feel much better on the other side"
    Arthur Lee

  • really wish this got more attention, thanks for the post

    @Michael said:
    In case you missed it, in Doom and Gloom news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report

    "Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken." "The next 18 months will be crucial."

    Good thing environment is front and centre in western politics right now 😂😭

  • @Moderndaycompiler
    Haha! Great. Do another one! 😸

  • If only I could @haulin_notes.
    Credit to Julie.

    The Cleaners by Julie Nahon. Homage to The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) by Jean-François Millet (1857).

  • edited May 2019

    @BroCoast said:

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    & The only reason I say that website is a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen.

    So you have facts that prove their predictions are wrong? It'd be great to see them, then we can all relax and carry on shitting out polluitants into the sea.

    @BroCoast said:

    Did I ever claim to have such facts?

    Well, they do. Since you're dismissing them I can only assume you have some pretty hefty counter-arguements.

    You made a statement, that the Friends of the Earth website is: "a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen".

    I'm guessing if you really believe that, and their promotion of, for example, 'The IPBES Global biodiversity assessment report' which states “Human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before. Around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of drivers of biodiversity loss”, then you have some pretty strong facts to prove otherwise?

    Is this all just a fantasy, in your opinion?

    You're making this into something it isn't.

    Really all I did was express my opinion on some EU environmental policies and you have made this about that website, Brexit and proceeded to make me your enemy.

    But since it must be about that website...

    It's main objective is to use predictions to sway people politically. That does not mean in any way that I believe that any of the material they use is fantasy.

    The problem is you are upset about what I said about that website. You have already made up your mind that I do not care about the environment like you do.

    You’re putting words into my mouth that I didn’t type. You said:

    “Just saying Rohs is actually worse for the environment in some ways...

    Some EU environmental laws are kind of dumb.”

    I’m just interested in hearing some facts to back those statements up, and why you think the Friends of the Earth website is just a ‘scare’ website.

    They say:

    “Friends of the Earth changes the world by changing politics. That means working with politicians - and putting pressure on them - to get them to make decisions that are good for people and the planet. We do this with our supporters across Britain, Europe and the rest of the world.”

    That’s just a mechanism to enact actual change. It’s not a ‘scare’ tactic, just presenting the relevant people with facts.

    You say:

    “That does not mean in any way that I believe that any of the material they use is fantasy.”

    Then it’s not a ‘scare’ website, is it.

  • @MonkeyDrummer said:

    @ALB said:
    @Michael - thanks for the post. This is an issue that goes beyond politics.

    BS. This is pure politics.

    Most of these "scientists" and "foundations" are funded by the same loons that think the crap written on the Georgia Guidestone is a god idea.

    Documented bad science on ACC
    Corruption in pretty much EVERY large environmental agency
    Etc.

    It's a bunch of earth-first wack-jobs that would be perfectly content if you and everyone you know die so some "endangered" newt can flourish in some swamp no one has ever seen. and most of these Urban Sierra Club EcoNazis have never been to any real nature in their lives.

    You want to give up internal combustion cars and drive your plague cart with free-range donkeys and eat bug infested, low-yield kale, be my guest. No one is stopping you. But stop trying to pretend you know ANYTHING about even medium term climate models, let alone long term.

    There's more CO2 put out by a medium-sized volcano that ALL of the cars that have EVER been produced...

    And why the fuck is stupid topic even on a music site anyway. And least file this tripe into OFFTOPIC.

    The report that Michael linked to wasn't about climate change though, it was about mass extinctions, which are documented and irrefutable. But you just dismissed it without even reading it (you thought it was about a different subject entirely), which tells us all we need to know about the worth of your opinion.

  • edited May 2019

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    @MonzoPro said:

    @BroCoast said:

    & The only reason I say that website is a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen.

    So you have facts that prove their predictions are wrong? It'd be great to see them, then we can all relax and carry on shitting out polluitants into the sea.

    @BroCoast said:

    Did I ever claim to have such facts?

    Well, they do. Since you're dismissing them I can only assume you have some pretty hefty counter-arguements.

    You made a statement, that the Friends of the Earth website is: "a scare website is because it's based on what could happen, not something that will happen".

    I'm guessing if you really believe that, and their promotion of, for example, 'The IPBES Global biodiversity assessment report' which states “Human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before. Around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of drivers of biodiversity loss”, then you have some pretty strong facts to prove otherwise?

    Is this all just a fantasy, in your opinion?

    You're making this into something it isn't.

    Really all I did was express my opinion on some EU environmental policies and you have made this about that website, Brexit and proceeded to make me your enemy.

    But since it must be about that website...

    It's main objective is to use predictions to sway people politically. That does not mean in any way that I believe that any of the material they use is fantasy.

    The problem is you are upset about what I said about that website. You have already made up your mind that I do not care about the environment like you do.

    You’re putting words into my mouth that I didn’t type. You said:

    “Just saying Rohs is actually worse for the environment in some ways...

    Some EU environmental laws are kind of dumb.”

    I’m just interested in hearing some facts to back those statements up, and why you think the Friends of the Earth website is just a ‘scare’ website.

    They say:

    “Friends of the Earth changes the world by changing politics. That means working with politicians - and putting pressure on them - to get them to make decisions that are good for people and the planet. We do this with our supporters across Britain, Europe and the rest of the world.”

    That’s just a mechanism to enact actual change. It’s not a ‘scare’ tactic, just presenting the relevant people with facts.

    You say:

    “That does not mean in any way that I believe that any of the material they use is fantasy.”

    Then it’s not a ‘scare’ website, is it.

    Sorry for using that word then. All the best!

    PS

    From how relentless you are about this whole thing I can see why your country is in Brexit.

  • @richardyot said:
    ... when you used to drive any distance there would always be dozens of insects splatted on the car windscreen. Now you can drive for months without a single insect hitting the car.

    Nope, that's only because they all live in my kitchen now.

    But seriously, yes, we are f*ed. I have a lot of explaining and apologizing to do towards my children.

  • @Michael said:
    Our governments are indeed totally useless right now, but one thing we have going for us (one can also argue it imperils us further, of course) is our rate of tech development, as has already been invoked on this thread.

    Tech is the one wildcard, it seems to me, the thing that could enable a small group of people to make a difference, as it's unlikely we'll see widespread mobility or top down change in time. (Not that we shouldn't keep trying, of course. Elections coming up.)

    AI is the other interesting thing in the mix; there are some very bright and knowledgeable people who see the prospect of general AI representing our biggest existential threat; or our most promising salvation, if it turns out we can solve the alignment problem.

    Anyway, interesting times. Having our little boy has made it quite a lot more personal and pressing.

    Read Adorno & Horkheimer's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1944). The end result of enlightenment (reason) is tech and rational processes that lead us to this mess in the first place. With this process of rationalisation of tech and the speed AI is developing, man will be redundant within 100 years. Robots are so much more efficient.
    Adapting tech for change without giving it little thought will make things worse. We are in deep shit. Sorry for being so pessimistic.

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