Straight white women who watch drag race made this and I’d bet money on it (if I had any).

Well yeah but like, who isn’t?

I’m hungry but I can’t eat because I haven’t bought food or done the dishes.

I could go and buy food, but that requires multiple steps of organisation and going outside and yeah, like I could do that, but I don’t wanna put on pants and find my keys. Also even if I do all the many, many things required to go outside and buy the food, I still have to wash the dishes to be able to cook/prep it.

I think I’m just going to deal with heing hungry for a bit. It’s less effort.

The answer to your first point is going to be maths and the water cycle.

You proved the second point. We should do day trips to industrial agricultural properties to teach them.about the wonders of no till farming practices. I’m sure they’ll love it, even if it isn’t as profitable!

I’ll find you some ‘better sources’ tonight when I get home as it’s 7am here right now and I’m writing this while brushing my teeth.

Some more worrying news: global fresh water reserves will be 40% over capacity by 2030, and 90% of global top soil and arable land is at risk of depletion by 2050.

This is me, the bulk of my belongings are plants at this point. Here’s hoping I can afford to keep the lights on for the foreseeable future, the leccy is ridiculously expensive lately.

Eh I’m still on team BOE is going to be soon. You do you though.

I only linked that page as it was a good explanation of the BOE, before today I hadn’t looked at the rest of the blog.

And tbh, panicking about climate collapse, collecting and organising huge amounts of data on it, and then getting blasè about the upcoming genocide, is a very justifiable reaction. So while I’m no longer going to be linking that page on the BOE (as I haven’t got the mental engery to fact check the rest of the blog), I’m not holding it against the author (provided they’re not shilling disinformation propaganda that is).

global fresh water reserves will be 40% over capacity by 2030, and 90% of global top soil and arable land is ‘at risk’ of depletion by 2050.

I think I’m going to need to find another resource to link as an explanation for the BOE, the rest of that site is giving misinformation vibes and fact checking that will take longer than I care to spend. Thanks for pointing this out.

People are people and we are people. There’s no distancing ourselves from how our species behaves, however much we try to mitigate our own impacts.

Which bit? I found nothing saying 18c by 2026 on the boe page. 1.6c by 2026 is there. And so is a sentence saying that altogether after the boe there could be as much as 18c rise in temp.

There’s a fine line between avoiding ‘doomer talk’ and actively lying about the state of reality.

I’m all for hope (I desperately want to have it) but I’m really struggling with all the posts here that massively minimise the danger we’re in and promote wishful thinking.

I don’t know how this can be changed or improved upon but vehemently pretending that protesting, signing petitions, and setting up community gardens is enough, is just making me uncomfortable.

How do we lift each other up and make tomorrow a better place when all the science points to climate collapse and fresh water and arable land being depleted in the next 5 to 30 years?

Scientists are on it. Everybody have HOPE! We can fix it! Carry on eating meat, recycling and having children, and just remember- DON’T LOOK UP! (And pay no attention to the rest of this comment.)

A huge amount of polar ice has melted this year and a massive amount of carbon has been released into the atmosphere from the wildfires , on top of the huge amounts from industrial pollution.

More carbon in the atmosphere means more heat in the next few years.

5 more years as hot as 2023, and we’ll have less than 100,000 sq km of polar ice left, the oceans will be absorbing the massive amounts of solar radiation that the ice had previously reflected, and will start releasing massive amounts of methane clathrate from the sea floor. This is called the Blue Ocean Event. And is also known as the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis.

To add to all this terribly offensive fearmongering: There are over 8 billion people on earth and global fresh water reserves will be 40% over capacity by 2030, and 90% of global top soil and arable land is ‘at risk’ of depletion by 2050. (‘At risk’ is in quotes to highlight it’s a conservative estimate from the UN.)

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If anyone does actually have proper scientific evidence that there is reasonable cause for hope in our ability to ‘fix’ climate change, I’m all ears and would very much appreciate it, because from where I’m sitting it just looks like if magically the blue ocean event and clathrate gun don’t go off and end us first, the drought and famine will shortly after.

Roasted sprouts stired with vegan sour cream and chaat masala and topped with spring onions and tomato. I cannot even begin to describe how good this was, all rich and tangy and savoury and creamy. I ate this for 4 meals in the last week and I have another bag of sprouts in the freezer I’m going to be making it again wit it’s so freaking good.

The other thing I’ve been eating this week is peaches. If peaches are in season and available for a reasonable price where you live, get yourself a punnet or two. They might not be around reliably in the next few years.

We deserve to die out.

It will be a few more than that. The global demand for fresh water will be 40% over capacity by 2030, if we even make it that long.

We’re losing massive amounts of polar ice daily and if the next 5 years are as hot as 2023, the Blue Ocean Event will happen in 2027.

Source on ice loss in weight.

Another on ice loss with km sq.

What the Blue Ocean Event is