2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report

Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by ajsnigrutin on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:16PM (#30379425)

And people like Leonardo DiCaprio fly their private jet to a conference, to tell Johnny average not to drive his car to work but instead use a bike. The same issues are apearing in many other future catastrophies, where a few big actors cause most of the damage, and the governments want to "do something", and then ban straws and make fuel a bit more expensive for average people, while not touching the main polluters.

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by Melatonic on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:24PM (#30379514)

I thought Leo was mostly calling out huge companies and industry for polluting? They are after all the majority of polluters by far compared to any individuals - rich or poor.

Then again just by living in most western societies on an individual level, even if we do try our best, we are essentially guaranteed to have a massively higher footprint than someone living in most third world countries.

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by ajsnigrutin on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:33PM (#30379592)

I was talking in general, rich people polluting a lot, telling poor people, not to do things, that they do every day.

Even "the terminator" has a "climate initiative" - https://www.schwarzeneggerclimateinitiative.com/

Of course people forget he brough hummers to civilians,... And being a rich guy, caring for the environment, he could be driving a tesla (or something smaller, to use even less energy), but nope... he drives a monostrosity of a SUV (GMC Yukon - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10440521/Arnol... )

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by gremlinsinc on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:39PM (#30381530)

When the water and resource wars start (the final battles/world wars), I hope people realize who created this. I hope we don't just fight each other over water, and actually cannibalize the wealthy oligarchs, for all they've done to accerbate and accelerate things.

We may all die, but at least if they die first there'll be some justice... and maybe we get a few extra years without one of them polluting as much as 50 million people in a single year...

i'm really saddened that I have boys under 4, and they have to really live through some of the worst of this. It's going to be a much harsher world, and it already isn't very amicable to anyone who isn't already wealthy.

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by aksss on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:05PM (#30379941)

There's that saying, "I'll start treating it like a crisis when the people saying it's a crisis start acting like it."

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by ajsnigrutin on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:43PM (#30380313)

Yep, and untill then, i'll keep buying beachfront properties, like they do.

..oh wait, i'm not that rich.

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Re:2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report by landemva on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:24PM (#30380126)

Maybe a carbon pig with 10,000+ sq ft home, several homes, would be a better example. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/al-gores-clima...

And Al Gore is a hypocrite - everybody else should conserve.

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