Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t...
by ornornor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @06:40AM
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And yet we shut down airlines and personal car travel for a month or two and we can measurably see pollution in the air drastically fall.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t...
by UglyToad on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:15AM
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The problem however is it shows us that unprecedented shutting down of the economy has an effect below that needed to tackle climate change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-co2-isnt-fall...
The figure I saw quoted is an estimated yearly reduction due to global lockdown of around 5% for CO2 emissions where about 7.5% yearly reduction is needed.
This isn't necessarily a cause for doom and gloom but it does show we need to move the focus back to transport, energy generation, etc and away from personal responsibility which on its own has minor benefits.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t...
by netsharc on Saturday May 09, 2020 @06:54AM
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Incredible how we react when we might die in 2 weeks instead of 50 years...
But the lockdown also shows the problems of shutting down the economy; in developing nations day wagers are starving and dying. In developed nations frothing-in-the-mouth idiots are protesting with their semi-auto weapons.
The thing is, I'm completely oversatured with being scared. This has lead to massive mental issues in the last few years, because everything around us is apocalyptic, even though we live in unimaginable luxury compared to 99.9999% of the rest of the time when humanity existed. I just....can't anymore.
>> The future of humanity is in your hands.
No, it isn't. At least it doesn't feel like it. Impact of my actions is zero. The only way that a "future of humanity is in my hands" is by either deciding to not have kids, or even better, just killing myself and immediately reducing all my output to zero. Still, on a global scale that amounts to nothing.
Watched a good video about this recently - even if all of United Kingdom was wiped off the map and just disappeared overnight, China and US would make up for the reduced polution in about 8 weeks, as both countries emit more and more by the day. And you're telling me the future is in my hands? Right.