yeah, we know, but we're not the ones he needs to convince
That man is what the supreme court took from us. Maybe he would have been shit, IDC, but he won that election.
I think he did a good job making the younger generation mad about it, though we all wish we had more of an impact.
“Al” is a really unfortunate name for 2026 climate change activism, though.
Al Gore: it's like Al Slop but worse.
I love AI gore
He was always right. I'm glad he's angrier about it now, rightfully so, it's so frustrating to see the world dance around the issue with side projects instead of a more concerted drive to urgently stop burning fossil fuels.
Climate change is what makes the movie: "Project Hail Mary", unbelievable. There is absolutely fucking no way the world would come together and pool their ressources into a solution, for a problem that isn't directly felt within a year or 2. The leaders of the world have shown that hundreds of millions of people dying, and possibly billions of people becoming refugees due to climate change over the next 100-200 years doesn't fucking matter. At best we can hold a big meeting once per year, where every world leader attends by private plane, to eat expensive food flown in from the other side of the world, to promise to do better than the previous year, while doing absolutely fuck all for the next 364 days.
and then we re-elect them.. Green vote in Germany's recent election down 2.4%, AfD up 8%.
Now the Greens are a bit too liberal (by necessity, or they be even more ignored then they are now) but the path to any level of sanity lies through them being able to move the Overton Window to the truly radical politicians we need.
however, it's very possible we've already passed the point of no return, certainly by 2030-2035 we will have if we continue, as too many tipping points will be crossed to find a way back to a stable biosphere for millennia.
The book addressed that area of thought much more in detail, but for starters the problem was more directly observable and promised near total extinction within a single lifetime.
Secondly, humanity didn't come together in a kumbaya moment, many had to be forced to comply. The woman in charge of Hail Mary project was a monster who nuked antarctica and was sent to prison when it was all over.
I still consider it far fetched but more to your point, solving the problem did not threaten the infinite growth model.
Do we know she was sent to prison? I know she said she would be.
I could be imagining, but in the movie they actually left a hint implying she did which I thought was neat.
I don't remember that latter half in the book? Maybe I should read it again
I was taught about global warming in the 90ies at school and have always been concerned about the environment and pollution. I'm from the generation that saw that Manbearpig episode, and even though I know South Park "makes fun of everyone", this one always seemed too much.
But I stopped giving a fuck during the pandemic when I realized that even a pandemic wouldn't change society.
We saw first hand how the environment could improve and benefit from making changes in our way of life, but most people wanted to go back to their commute and waste energy in traffic.
Even today, governments and public employers are still forcing their employees to go "back to the office" even if it's not needed for lots of jobs.
I care about the future of next generations, I have nephews and nieces, but apparently nobody gives a fuck because it would be too expensive and disruptive. We prefer cheap gas.
So I still maintain my lifestyle of not having a car and being careful when I can, but I was avoiding airplanes as they are the most polluting mode of transport, and I don't anymore.The majority apparently doesn't care and just wants cheap gas and cheap shit. They want to choke us while complaining everything is getting more expensive, amd won't change anything.
Every headline year after year is how we won't reach our climate "goals" and how we're passing thresholds one after the other.
So I don't give a fuck now. It's sad but I can see what people around me chose, and it's cheap gas and endless consumption.
Yeah im kinda where you're at. As humans we know better but 99% of us just act like animals anyway. Just eat and consume as much as possible and fight anyone who gets in our way. That's basically what it comes down to, everyone knows burning oil and sending the smoke into the air is a bad idea long term, they just don't care.
I'd argue that most people didn't want to go back to commuting at all but the owning class demanded it. The same people demand we build data centers now
Regulation and organizational optimization could make the difference, but the incentives are "make as much money as possible, everything else be dammed", not, "Work towards a better and more functional society by guiding our future with sustainable humanitarian practices"
Yeah I have to say I have been a doomer for awhile and honestly global warming was not even on my radar till the aughts. I mean environmentalism for awhile but not specifically the co2 problem. Feels that way anyway. What gets me is despite my doomerism I did not realize how bad it would be with the rich/powerful going nuts hoarding and pushing for more use of fossil fuels. Its like if we had done the best we could since the start of the millenium we were in for a rough ride and we consistantly stick pretty close to worse case.
When given the option the population chooses consume more every single time. When you ask voters if Climate change matters a super majority says it does but when they rank it alongside other issues its at the bottom of the list, with things that will pollute more higher in the list. Politicians are reading that signal correctly, consume the planet because all the caring is purely performative. When it comes to protests to try and change the situation most people find themselves wanting the disruption to end, and thus join the polluters side. They don't actually care and their own behaviour shows that they don't. Humanity doesn't have a future, we are going to shoot on through to the worst case scenario and extinction.
I'm glad to see you calling out that episode, as I was really confused by it when I was younger too. Al Gore wasn't in hysterics he was giving a boring power point presentation about a complicated topic. It just never sat right that they would make him out to be some kind of crackpot.
At least the creators went back and admitted they were wrong, by means of the same metaphor... albeit a bit late in the game for it to mean much.
Al Gore is Still Sounding
Oh wow! You'd think he'd be sore by now!
I mean I'm glad Al is still fighting the good fight, but I think most of the willing ears are already alarmed
I think the alrrm is buried under rising water levels and tree ash.
Don’t you think if sea levels rise people will just sell their homes and move?
(/s)
they may not sell their homes but they will ....move...
The correct response was “Just one small problem: sell their houses to WHO, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”
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