Climate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren’t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we're incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I’m here to tell climate scientists — and my fellow climate journalists — to knock it off, writes Barbara Moran.
Is nobody here reading the actual article? The article isn’t saying that the world and humanity are doomed. It’s saying that a 1.5c degrees limit is basically impossible, but that every 0.1c above that is still worth fighting against! Please don’t comment a bunch of doomer stuff, because while the kitchen is on fire, we can still fight to save the rest of the house damnit! Every “we’re doomed, let’s give up.” Is another win for the fossil fuel industry and the people in power.
Exactly this. The powers that caused the crisis want you to give up. They want you to think its hopeless and inevitable, because if it isn’t, revolution is the only option in the face of their obstruction. And not a small revolution either - it will be one that is simultaneously political, economic, and cultural.
And such a revolution is inevitable - the question is whether or not it will be one of positive change, or one that arises from the world’s collapse into chaos and fire.
The powers behind the crisis intentionally manufacture and market despair to keep you from uniting with others to fight against the slow heat death of the world. Don’t buy into it.
The powers that caused this don’t think about you at all. They won, it’s over my guy. We are past the point of no return lol.
Right?
Poor people and folk from less developed countries are disproportionately going to be made to suffer horrendously before they die.
This is not about stopping it. It is about damage reduction.
It’s like saying we shouldn’t really care for people who come into the accident room because they are going to die, eventually, anyway.
In my experience doomers are just looking for a convenient excuse not to do anything, but they suddenly become really motivated when it’s their home that is flooding, or on fire, or flooded and on fire.
Thank you for this comment.
Now go and explain that to the oil ceo’s.
We are rolling back our emissions targets instead of actually doing something. At this point having hope is misleading. Trust me, capitalism will grow to the last fucking day before it implodes on itself. We’ll be manufacturing useless plastic trash till the last day.
I don’t think it’s about being doomed and giving up. For me it’s just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.
The latest Mindscape podcast discussed exactly this point with Hannah Ritchie
Yeah except we can’t… Because fossil fuel companies control the United States, which controls the world. We’re way past doomed lol