Jem Bendell was made famous by his paper Deep Adaptation, in which he argued that climate collapse was inevitable. Now he says it has already begun.
    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Many of them have been watching neoliberal “educational” sources like Kurzgesagt (which gets funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) for greenwashing climate change. eco-porky

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Kurzgesagt (which gets funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

        I’ll never forgive that “if 99% of humanity dies off, that is still a win for Team Humanity™!” bazinga calculation, which blissfully ignored that what’s left of humanity would be living in the same conditions that killed off the other 99% and therefore would still be wallowing in a dead or dying ecosphere.

        Fucking bazinga trash, complete with obnoxious corpo presentation. corporate-art

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            3 months ago

            A sufficiently narcissistic bunker billionaire can conjure up an internalized Team Humanity™ with enough free time in their bunker! so-true

        • Icalasari@fedia.io
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          3 months ago

          I mean, they wouldn’t be living in the same conditions

          The thing left out is that that 1% would either be the richest as they have money to afford bunkers to purify air, purify water, afford high quality health care, indoor greenhouses, etc., or be the “lucky” few who get to be slaves to take care of the ultra rich in exchange for getting to live in the bunkers

          And somebody funded by Bill Gates would of course count something that leaves the richest few alive as “a win for humanity”

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Tbf, this guy (Jem Bendell) was saying 5 years ago that civilization could be gone by 2025 due to a climate apocalypse that is now too late to avoid. There’s a lot to criticize about what he has said, but no one can claim that he doesn’t know how bad climate change is, has been, or how bad it might get. For the most part he’s considered the epitome of climate alarmism.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I remember when i went to school on skies. I haven’t really seen snow in over 10 years. Normal stuff.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It’s ironic that the people in the article are decrying “doomism” as an excuse to give up and do nothing are juxtaposed against a guy who quit his job and moved to Bali to start a permaculture operation (not sure how well that would work as a universal solution, but good on him). The crime in the eyes of the anti-doomer isn’t giving up, it’s opting out of the idea that we can solve climate change by running on our little hamster wheels harder.

    • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I remember reading over a decade ago that meteorologists and climate researchers gave up on us collectively solving the problem and were deciding to move to the most resilient territories and planning to live off grid.

  • UltraGiGaGiganticEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People like to complain about doomers while simultaneously doing nothing about the doom in the world.

    So to lower the amount of doom, you would need to make changes right? And how do we make said change?

    IMO, the place to start is state level electoral reform. First Past The Post voting artificially limits our choices in the voting booth, restricting the competition in the electoral process. The kind of radical change we need will not come while we have our hands in these two handcuffs. What incentive do these two political parties have to make said change when they know the other option in the voting booth is even further away from what you really want? There is none.

    We should push our political parties harder, and that means threatening their jobs with new political parties with fresh ideas. Put the fear back into our politicians lives through a more representative voting system. There should be no “safe seats”, kamala Harris should debate someone other then trump.

    Debating trump, the world’s easiest job.