Europe had at least 30 years to prepare for this (if I’m generous), really it’s more like 50+.
Politics, leaders and society failed.
Like in Austria (where I’m from) they’re not closing schools despite it reaching up to 40°C indoors because they don’t have any law for this case.
Torturing children and teachers instead of finally acknowledging that there’s an ongoing deadly emergency.
Pretending that everything is fine instead of finally acting to protect life.
A true boiling frog experiment.
You know what everyone had plenty of time for?
Blaming immigrants and people fleeing wars and poverty for everything.
And when the time comes for water and food rationing people will elect more right-wing charlatans who promise that these problems don’t exist and/or are all the fault of “other” people.
If people don’t change and finally stick together to really work on this emergency, I don’t see a bright future for Europe.
@thomasfuchs oh but they have done something
They have created huge apparatuses to monitor and control large numbers of people.
Harsh judicial policies for "climate terrorists" and means to gather "immigrants" to camps.
They can keep going for a long time.
@kwramm @thomasfuchs I think it's partly embarrassment, but I think it's also a coping mechanism.
Many people would prefer to believe they had no hand in any of this. Believing such requires they believe they have no hand in fixing it though. Admitting otherwise, given the culture of individualism, places them as the "bad guy" in their narrative.
There is a pretty straight forward mapping from the various climate change related obstructionist positions to the Kübler-Ross stages of grief, IMO.
@janantos @thomasfuchs 25 sounds wonderful!
Enjoy the summer heat. I envy the weather you’re having!
@Beggarmidas @thomasfuchs Have you looked at any results of carbon capture technology other than forests EDIT: and algae farms?
No results worth mentioning, it's mostly greenwashing. Quantitatively, carbon capture doesn't make sense, at least not more than stopping deforestation and using algae + kelp.
Carbon capture is a kiloton solution to a gigaton problem. Seperating CO2 at PPB levels is thermodynamicly a wasted effort. The amount of energy used is proportional to the degree of seperation your attempting to accomplish. Not a linear relationship, a power law relationship.
Which is why the ...accounts... pumping it as a downstream solution are either deceived, AI scripts, paid liars, or some combination. Get back to us when you learn how exponents work.
All the money that used to be invested into the human slave trade has moved into the petroleum extraction industry. It's now a global extra-judicial cabal. They knew for decades now that humanities transition away from carbon based energy poses an existential threat that must be met with any means necessary. They haven't been idle those decades and they have the money to buy or destroy anyone or anything that stands in their way.
The global slide into fascim. The Trump reich. Ukraine. Brexit. The sundering of the economic liberal world order. All of these are downstream consequences of that defacto monopoly being threatened with non-existence.
@thomasfuchs Someones angry about having their arguments cut off at the legs. Look @Beggarmidas calling me names dosn't change the physics involved, or the impossibility of your projects making any difference. I say -your project- because it's clear this is something you have a personal financial stake in.
Compared to net fossil fuel consumption rates its not even a rounding error in a years CO2 production. Neither are 100 similar project nor 1,000 of them. It's feasible as a syn gas feedstock source, nothing else. So you project your anger, ok, again not my damage. The solution to global warming is to stop burning fossil fuels. Cope with what is, or not.
@zombiecide It's even a bit cold for the growing season in northern europe. Stuff that I grow and see growing seems to be doing ok.
Plenty of rain interspersed with sunny days.
@cohentheblue where I live, Northern Germany, there's plenty of fava beans but they don't expect the beans to ripen but harvest the entire plant to turn it into cow feed, because the growth period is not expected to be long and warm enough to grow pulses or starchy crops for direct human consumption that can compete with those from further South in quality or price :/
(I mean that's better than importing soy, but it's not like people didn't survive on the local crops until recently)
@zombiecide Also, from my experience, anything grown locally doesn't have that trademark odd aftertaste that store bought goods achieve, one way or the other.
Bought potatoes last year, had to peel them extra thick just to get rid of that weird taste - might have been fertilized with pig manure or something.
Frozen carrots? Might as well eat straw.
Store bought beans did seem fine but they definitely weren't produced "further south" than germany. I think they were latvian or lithuanian.
@zombiecide Regarding fava beans: I got by the entire winter making bean soup by using leftover dried beans from previous years, old seed basically. There was only 1.5 2 kg old paper bags of flour so probably much less weight than 3 kg. I soak beans over night and usually use at most 2 big handfuls of beans for 5 litres of soup. The beans are really filling, I can eat double the soup without beans.
Dried beans are nice.
Someone made a list of reasons why the UK was unprepared for a recent heatwave that hit. Their main point revolved around most houses don't have AC because no one needed them before so there was nothing to be done about it now.
I guess they better start getting everyone prepared for the next one then? Right?
Or they're just going to suffer through until winter and do it all again next year:
@zimzat
Perfectly illustrated! 🫤
@thomasfuchs The frog thing is a myth though ... the frog jumps out.
It's only humans who are stupid enough not to.
Yeah, if the rooms got no AC, close it.
It's no 'catastrophe' though, just one week summer heat. Next week down to 20°C. Relax and enjoy.
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