RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll.
November 6, 2021 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2021 at 10:42 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
If by 'we' you include me, probably not.
With a bit of luck I will be dead before climate change becomes personally inconvenient.
But for people say my nephews age or younger, (he's 25) I think you're fucked.
In around 1982, I had a brilliant but odd friend whose main concern for the world was global warming. I forget from whence this came, but it was a warning that if we did not reduce our use of fossil fuels by 15% now (as in 1982) it would soon be too late. I suspect that is where we're at .
We've seen the melting of glaciers and the permafrost (releasing billions of tonnes of methane into atmosphere). This week I read of loss of farmland in Bangladesh due to salinisation of a river. That country, and others, is flat. I expect Bangladesh to be flooded within 10 years at the latest.
Perhaps not in my lifetime, but not too far away, many of the world's coast lines will change with many of the coastal cities lost.
Right now, there is insufficient political will to take urgent action about this most pressing issue for the whole of humanity .
Every time I think of those stupidly corrupt fools, I think first of rich, white and privileged Boris Hooray Henry Johnson and then of High Brasil. May their prostates explode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs
With a bit of luck I will be dead before climate change becomes personally inconvenient.
But for people say my nephews age or younger, (he's 25) I think you're fucked.
In around 1982, I had a brilliant but odd friend whose main concern for the world was global warming. I forget from whence this came, but it was a warning that if we did not reduce our use of fossil fuels by 15% now (as in 1982) it would soon be too late. I suspect that is where we're at .
We've seen the melting of glaciers and the permafrost (releasing billions of tonnes of methane into atmosphere). This week I read of loss of farmland in Bangladesh due to salinisation of a river. That country, and others, is flat. I expect Bangladesh to be flooded within 10 years at the latest.
Perhaps not in my lifetime, but not too far away, many of the world's coast lines will change with many of the coastal cities lost.
Right now, there is insufficient political will to take urgent action about this most pressing issue for the whole of humanity .
Every time I think of those stupidly corrupt fools, I think first of rich, white and privileged Boris Hooray Henry Johnson and then of High Brasil. May their prostates explode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs
