prepare accordingly - eviltoast
  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Chinese and US militaries are both the biggest polluters on the entire planet, and yet I have to be the one making sacrifices such as fucking drinking from a floppy paper straw.

  • amnesiacrobat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had pretty much this same thought just the other day. It’s so disheartening how oil companies and other industries managed to delay any significant changes that might have prevented this.

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      1 year ago

      still delaying, gaslighting, distracting and greenwashing. i wonder how they find people who are okay with doing this. that’s some super villain level evil right there

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        1 year ago

        I’m sure the thought of the people who are okay with it is “the major effects will be after I’m dead and in the here and now I’m rich”

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    1 year ago

    Can only pray that nuclear fusion** becomes possible so we don’t need any oil companies anymore. And improved battery tech won’t hurt

    Dummy edit

    • Pagpag@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Fusion. Fusion becoming physically and commercially viable is the only thing that will save us as a species.

      That being said, capitalism will ensure that it’s a long fucked up road.

  • Bizzle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I read something the other day how people in charge are considering geoengineering- altering the atmosphere to reflect a little more sun, “significantly cooling the Earth in only a few years”. Obviously more research needs done but it’s not necessarily hopeless, the dog-fucking oil companies could continue to rape the Earth for generations to come.

  • xogcan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So like… what actually should one be doing to prepare for this kind of stuff? Is the average emergency prep kit good enough or are there other things that can/should be done? (short of fully relocating because in this economy that’s not possible either)

    • BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wow it’s like perfect timing to say it in this meta but learn how to grow beans dawg. You can grow up to 2000lbs of beans per acre. Dry beans don’t lose all their nutritional value until about 5 years on the shelf. Protein dawg. Carbs dawg. Good start to the whole not dying thing should food insecurity hit your area.

      I mean a bunker with replacement parts for a good sump pump ain’t such a bad idea either if you can keep the power going.