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orthoclad

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39. The obscenely rich are addicted to profits,

Sun Oct 27, 2024, 10:54 AM

Oct 27

which are enabled by widespread use (and waste) of energy.

For example:
First world manufacturing was off-shored to countries without regulation, with cheap labor. First world unions took a big hit. It's more profitable now to build giant cargo ships burning huge amounts of oil to ship the manufactured products back to the first world. Ships like the giant one which destroyed the bridge in Baltimore, killing workers on the bridge. And the ship that grounded and blocked shipping in the Suez.

Fortunes are spent on psyop-type ad campaigns to convince USians that they can't be complete people without the new improved XYZ. Consumption gets amplified.

The Bangladeshi fisherman gets caught between floods from melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and amplified storms.

One third of Pakistan gets flooded.

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Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' [View all] Bayard Oct 23 OP

K & R malaise Oct 23 #1

But...but....Kamala did not give interviews...and Hillary had e-mails... Moostache Oct 23 #2

And people would rather have a beer with George Bush than with Al Gore. LisaM Oct 23 #5

And despite this information the MAGA and GOP assholes keep merrily dancing around saying hadEnuf Oct 23 #19

Sigh ... and I would have always preferred that beer with Gore. RandomNumbers Oct 27 #41

The price of eggs is too high. Klarkashton Oct 28 #51

I've been muttering for years that PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 23 #3

More accurately perhaps, life as humanity knows it will be in deep doo-doo. Magoo48 Oct 23 #12

The obscenely rich are addicted to profits, orthoclad Oct 27 #39

I'm worried about all of the methane gas that will be released when the Arctic permafrost melts. OMGWTF Oct 23 #20

They have some Metaphorical Oct 24 #26

Do not need to worry about the planet. The planet as you mention will take care of itself. LiberalArkie Oct 24 #35

Wow. This is probably the most important article of the year. ananda Oct 23 #4

And I'm ,out of respect,not gonna make a smart ass remark. BattleRow Oct 23 #13

There is another Delphinus Oct 23 #6

K&R x 1,000,000 c-rational Oct 23 #7

This has been known since the early 2000s relayerbob Oct 23 #8

Is it finally time for the carbon eaters? Coexist Oct 23 #9

ppl cd kill their lawns. mopinko Oct 24 #25

It takes energy to remove carbon orthoclad Oct 27 #40

Sadly this will not get the attention it deserves. The world will suffer. live love laugh Oct 23 #10

we are saying goodbye et tu Oct 23 #11

Maybe it is getting ready to say goodbye to us Stuckinthebush Oct 23 #15

true nt et tu Oct 23 #18

The current has been slowing for some time now Warpy Oct 23 #14

the fog may clear et tu Oct 23 #17

Oh, I'm not that gloomy Warpy Oct 23 #21

Yes but extrapolating a collapse from thousands of years ago moniss Oct 24 #33

First, you can't predict it Warpy Oct 24 #36

You miss the point entirely.nt moniss Oct 24 #37

Humans might revert to lithic hunter-gatherers orthoclad Oct 27 #43

That's usually who manages to survive any major collapse Warpy Oct 27 #44

Usually? The spcies has never seen a collapse like the one approaching. orthoclad Oct 27 #45

The one around 1177-186 (the date changes constantly) BC comes very close Warpy Oct 27 #46

No comparison. The global biosphere didn't collapse. orthoclad Oct 28 #48

That's just it, we don't know what happened to erase civilizations over such a wide area Warpy Oct 28 #49

You miss my point orthoclad Oct 28 #50

You missed my last sentences. Warpy Oct 28 #52

Mutual. Gotcha. orthoclad Oct 28 #53

Oct 23, south-central KY, 86F on my porch. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 23 #16

We're in the same neighborhood in KY Bayard Oct 23 #22

Well that's terrifying. JanMichael Oct 24 #32

89 the forecast high for 10/24 here in Missouri . . . hatrack Oct 24 #28

Just.... Clouds Passing Oct 23 #23

Kick Duppers Oct 24 #24

K&R Think. Again. Oct 24 #27

Stop Global Whining czarjak Oct 24 #29

K&R Wild blueberry Oct 24 #30

On the Gulf Coast.... surfered Oct 24 #31

If the system of Atlantic currents collapses mn9driver Oct 24 #34

Excellent point that gets ignored orthoclad Oct 28 #54

Kick Duppers Oct 24 #38

Jesus will save us dalton99a Oct 27 #42

There is also the danger of stagnation. Morbius Oct 28 #47