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Quexotic, in World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28

Aren’t we on track for 9°c or something like that?

I feel sad for my kids. Also guilty.

admin,
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Also guilty.

Why would you feel this way…most of us were born into this world not knowing anything about climate change…I only learned about it in 2007…Scientists have known about this problem, at least, since the 1950s…It has been shown, many times over, that the primary responsibility (of no longer burning fossil fuels) falls onto a handful (or so) of very large corporations…Of course, they want the every day person to feel guilty and have been pushing green-washing propaganda for decades onto all of us…propaganda works in their favor to deflect the blame off of themselves and onto you and I.

Right now, China and India must get on board quickly in order for the future populations to subvert the worst case scenarios.

Quexotic,

I feel guilty for bringing kids into this world, friend. That’s why.

Jack,

The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio (where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was created) was a landmark year for the news reporting that climate change is by far the most important issue humans are facing. Widely seen news has been reporting scientists’ warnings about the existential threat of our overpopulation and fossil fuel since then, and in the last 30 years the media has been reporting on it more and more every year.

falls onto a handful (or so) of very large corporations

Those companies are not burning the planet for the hell of it - they do it because billions of people choose to buy their biosphere destroying products and services.

While we should vote for Greens who’ll make laws where anyone using more than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year is jailed, instead of for people and parties who subsidize overpopulation and fossil fuel use - in the short term that usually doesn’t do anything unless a threshold is passed. Individual action (reducing our communities’ fertility rate by 2 orders of magnitude for several decades, not flying, not driving, not living in unsustainable places, …) while vanishingly small, does actually make a measurable difference.

riquisimo, in 40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far

Dang that’s crazy.

The fact that they can send them food, water, and air is really great. But over a week in a dark tunnel is still mentally taxing.

tsonfeir,
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I’m sure it smells great too…

Thorny_Insight, in Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019

So while this obviously also includes billionaires, this group still mostly consists of wealthy upper-middle class. So in other words; people that can afford a house, two cars and few trips abroad per year generate more carbon emissions than the ones that can’t. Shocker.

Eggyhead,
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two cars

Imagine being able to afford just the house first...

jivandabeast,

Where the fuck are you buying a house and taking on two car payments for $140k 😭

anachronist, in Prominent settler leader pushes Netanyahu to rebuild Israeli homes in Gaza

This was quite literally always the plan according to leaked Israeli government documents.

middleeastmonitor.com/20231030-leaked-document-sh…

jmcs, (edited ) in Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns

This means they are going to open borders so people actually have a place to go, right? Right? (Insert Anakin and Padme meme)

raccoona_nongrata, (edited ) in Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients
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We don’t know if those premature babies were Hamas sleeper agents. You know, Israel just out there with “no choice” but to kill those babies, bomb those hospitals and apartment blocks. Gotta have their war against…whoever.

khalic, in Palestinians Sue Biden for Failing to Prevent Genocide in Gaza

What’s the next step for the intercept, “From the river to the seas” in their front page?

Kwakigra,

It would be nice if everyone serious about human rights said so. The Intercept has already discussed this phrase with Marc Lamont Hill.

khalic,

🤦🏻

Kwakigra,

I stand with the people who think things like what the radical right wing secular government of Israel is inflicting on innocents should never happen again. There’s another explanation of the phrase in that link, and it’s the same explanation used by anyone who is in support of human rights.

khalic,

Do you know the original quote, in arab, and its literal translation? The original version states: palestine will be arab, not free. It’s a hate slogan, diluted so that dumb westerners will parrot it.

Be smarter

Kwakigra, (edited )

I made a good faith effort to research this claim you made but I couldn’t find anything other than a reddit post making the same claim. Where did you hear this? Also, how would it be relevant to anything I’ve linked or said?

khalic,

I’m looking for a source and can’t find anything high quality enough for now. I thought this was common knowledge, since it’s being chanted during protests in arabic all around the world.

Then, I’m sorry for the harsh tone, not every one understands arabic.

Kwakigra,

I don’t understand any dialect of arabic. If you are a Palestinian arabic speaker, can you explain how Wikipedia’s direct translation of “from the water to the water” is misleading?

khalic,

I’m no expert in Palestinian Arabic sorry, and relied on a friend for the exact translation

Rozauhtuno, in Which islands will become uninhabitable due to climate change first?
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Title sounds like a really awkward reality show.

Kwakigra, (edited ) in Over 10,500 Killed in One Month as Israel Continues its War on Palestine

With 60-70 Hamas fighters confirmed dead. I am struggling to think of any military action in history whose victims were over 99% civilian. Even the powers they wrote the Geneva conventions over weren’t this ruthless in their pursuit of killing almost exclusively innocent people.

Fitik, (edited )
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What your source for 60-70? All other sources I seen say much more
At least 1000 Hamas terrorist were killed inside of Israel (Those who infiltered at 7th of October) according to the same (Pro-Palestinian biased) source that the OP used

Kwakigra,

You’re right about the events of 10/7. 60-70 is from since the bombing campaign began. The fog of war keeps things hard to find so I couldn’t find a recording, but here is at least a news report.

Fitik, (edited )
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slain 60-odd senior and mid-level Hamas leaders

Seems like a lot to me, and it doesn't mention the amount of regular (low level) fighters

Kwakigra,

Exactly. That’s the only mention of any Hamas fighters killed by the bombing campaign I’ve heard of in a month. Ibwould think the IDF would be more proactive announcing any success they’ve had which they can confirm. It’s just been explaining their suspicions after they bomb a hospital or refugee camp without confirming if their suspicions were correct in most cases.

DarkDarkHouse, in Australia offers climate refuge to Tuvalu citizens
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Mate, if our barbie burns ya house down, you can come sleep on my floor.

t3rmit3, in Israel's Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say

He doesn’t give a shit about the hostages, he wants to expel Palestinians from north Gaza, if not all of it. He will bomb all the tunnels where they’re being held, then blame Hamas for “putting them in the way of the bombs”.

tesseract,

No. He will never reveal that he bombed them. He will simply say that the Palestinians did it.

tangentism,

And when evidence later emerges that they were killed by the Israeli military (for example)… theyll just shrug their shoulders

floofloof, in ‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | CNN
Car, in Why does China claim almost the entire South China Sea?

There’s no world police, so unless other countries dispute China’s claims and back them up with some sort of weight, the region is theirs by default.

jakkreborn, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Though I feel for people taken in by something like this.

a_cup_of_rohan, in Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say

Oh geez that’s some trip

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