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Don't think I need to summarize this one. This is bad news for everyone.

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[–] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 16 points 8 hours ago

Summer homes in Europe go up in value. A new market for winter apparel opens too. Just think to the potential market growth. This is going to make a few shrewd entrepreneurs very wealthy. The planet will suffer, but man think of the money.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

B-but the oil lobbyists at COP told me amoc won't be affected

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (6 children)

I gotta stop using chrome on my phone 😔

[–] styxem@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Mildly fitting though. "Ecological collapse is imminent; please buy more products."

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 34 seconds ago)

Ecological collapse is imminent; please buy more products

If there is a better epitaph for Humanity, I have not heard it.

Can we Laser etch this quote onto the moon's surface before the last human dies please?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox mobile supports ublock origin

[–] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Only on android unfortunately.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

NextDNS has been good to me. I think it’s about $20/yr if you go over the free tier.

Maybe one day I’ll get my pie-hole running. This was easier.

[–] Proposal6114@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Been using NextDNS as well and happy with it. I went the opposite way. Had piholes and figured that yearly expense was cheaper than me messing with them when something broke. Now I get to be annoyed with someone else instead when something breaks!

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Two I've had good experiences with are p2.freedns.controld.com and dns.adguard-dns.com

[–] oozynozh@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Cromite is a good Chromium fork with built-in ad block and privacy features.

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

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[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Earth will survive and the humans will get what they deserve.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Millions of species will go down with us, some already have been relagated to extinction by our actions.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (16 children)

The dinosaurs got wiped out and new life flourished. The same will happen again.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Oh then in that case nbd that we take millions of species who were living in harmony with nature with us. Serves them right for . . . existing in the same 20,000 year period we did.

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Humanity will be just another dead branch on the tree of life

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Humans are pretty resilient. Adaptable to any climate, even the mess of a climate we created.

Now, I'm not saying that all 8 billion of us will survive.

What I'm saying is, the minimum viable genetic population for humans is about 2000 individuals.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

When food runs out for even a portion of those 8 billion, results are gonna be nasty.

It's hard to talk about climate initiatives when 1/3 of the planet is shooting eatch other. In worst case with nukes.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, there will always be humans as long as there is literally anything we can hunt/forage and eat.

If that will resemble what we perceive as civilisation is another question entirely.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How much can you forage in the bush’s of human civilization? Not much grows in abandoned cites.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Even now cities cover a tiny fraction of the surface, and they're already full of squirrels, rats, and pigeons.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Nature reclaims cities pretty quickly though.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Basically it's too late to stop the process. Even if we switched to renewables entirely, there will be a lag. That lag is now in a positive feedback loop.

[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 2 points 7 hours ago

Not to mention the tipping point where it is no longer reversible. And even worse, the huge effect that the current has on basically the whole of the globe!

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 115 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah like the science community was saying 10-15 years ago.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only we knew about this 50 years ago, surely we would have done something!

Big Oil: side eye Muppet meme

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Fun fact: They knew since the 1950s and have been lying about it for over 70 YEARS!

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I remember some of the early research showing this when I was in college in the late 90s/early 00s. It's mostly following the worst-case scenario models from the time, except 50 - 80 years ahead of schedule.

[–] omgarm@feddit.nl 7 points 14 hours ago

I started watching The Nanny a few days ago (have seen a lot on tv, but never everything) and in one of the first episodes they make a joke about being worried about Global Warming. It was lighthearted, not very serious. That was 1993.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

So, what does this all mean for us? It means we have even less time to get our act together. Reducing emissions isn’t just a good idea — it’s crucial.

I don't think this will motivate countries to dramatically increase emissions reduction efforts, but I think it will motivate countries to begin geoengineering. Geoengineering is cheaper and easier than rapid emissions reduction, and the results are more immediate. Yes, it doesn't solve the core problem, which is the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere, but it treats the symptom, albeit temporarily. Why put a lot of time, money, and effort into fixing the core problem when you can spend comparatively less time, money, and effort just treating the symptom? Then you can just pretend the core problem doesn't exist and go about business as usual.

Edit: sorry, I should have added the /s.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I don't think you realize what a collapsed ocean current means for us. This is existential, not business as usual. Anything we do from here on out that isn't in service of stopping this is signing our species death warrant.

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[–] Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

#Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening

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[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh. That's oddly freeing

"Oh we're all fucked guaranteed. The stress is gone"

I mean, still gonna be for eco measures and such, but it's like a weight is off my shoulders in terms of worry

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It’s not freeing. We may have locked in some really bad changes but it can always get worse. It more critical than ever to get a handle on our green house emissions

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