Climate crisis

Ta, it was really meant as a joke on this:

“To put the losses we’ve already experienced into context, 28 trillion tonnes of ice would cover the entire surface of the UK with a sheet of frozen water that is 100 metres thick,” added group member Tom Slater from Leeds University. “It’s just mind-blowing.”

Hah right, I didn't read that - just thought it's another metric that is impossible to grasp!

I read this book recently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UninhabitableEarth(book)

We are all completely and utterly fucked. And probably more quickly than anyone realises.

Well, this is the reality of climate chaos playing out in front of us:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/21/never-seen-anything-like-it-locals-watch-helplessly-as-floodwaters-rise-across-nsw

I do like the idea of harvesting vegetables from the sea, and I think we eat too little by way of sea vegetables (except in places where they have long traditions, such as in Japan), but this is a sea grain:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/09/sea-rice-eelgrass-marine-grain-chef-angel-leon-marsh-climate-crisis

It'll definitely be interesting to watch how this develops. I can't wait to try it when it eventually becomes more widely available.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/jury-acquits-extinction-rebellion-protesters-despite-no-defence-in-law

“I believe if I don’t do whatever I can to protect our Earth, to protect life on this Earth, to stop the death and injury that is and will be happening, I’m committing a crime, a really serious crime, and I’m willing to break a window, to paint a message on a wall, I’m willing to break the glass on that emergency button, even if some say that’s a crime."

“Because this is a much bigger crime and I’m trying to stop that crime, I’m trying to protect life in the only way I feel I can.”

And

“This is such a significant victory for the consciousness of the British people when it comes to the huge, immediate threat of climate change and the absolute failure of our government to do anything meaningful about it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/climate-crisis-has-shifted-the-earths-axis-study-shows

London Borough of Hillingdon,
has a Climate Change Consultation following their declaration of a Climate Emergency in January 2020.

Anyone else submitted anything to their local authority?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored

Read this yesterday, for some reason the prophets of doom phrase has been playing around in my mind all day

I missed this when it first came out https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/climate-change-dangerous-thresholds-un-report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/extreme-weather-will-be-the-norm-and-uk-is-not-prepared-report-warns

My local council keep sending me emails about all the climate shit they are doing. They've just approved building a new housing estate in the river valley, next to the river that's flooded a bunch of times already.

I really think if people stopped saying we need to do X, Y and Z to save the planet, think of the planet, we're destroying the planet, we'd get further with more changes and less ignorance. We aren't destroying the planet, it will be around long after we're gone, albeit in a shitty state. We're just driving ourselves and the majority of the rest of life on earth to extinction

By planet most people will mean livable environment I'd guess?

Yes I don't think anyone is mistaken in thinking the planet will explode. Just that it might be stronger to say we're all going to perish

I take it you'll have heard about this?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16050885/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

How frustrating that Humanity seems to have risen to the level of its own insurmountable incompetence. In the same way the biology of canis familiaris means it will never be capable of understanding the complexities we have resolved in civilisation and the universe, no matter how much it wants to, it seems we’re reaching our own limits as a civilisation. We’ve tiptoed around our nuclear minefield, we’ve tentatively survived a plague, and now we have to discover how to survive our own destruction of our habitat.

Far-reaching political action and effective enforcement aimed specifically at the greatest climate destroyers are our only hope. Our ‘individual responsibility’ is just a distraction unless it’s specifically aimed at bringing the big actors in line.

I take it you'll have heard about this?

I live pretty close to this. Not looking good.

This morning's Daily Mail thinks Prince Andrew's affairs are more important than the impending doom of the human race - at least so far as I can see on line without giving them any money.

Although The Guardian is doing a sterling job reporting the crisis, it's sad that it is only read by the converted.

Presumably there will be many surprised citizens when Epping Forest burns down followed by flooding of the London underground.

After pretty comprehensive coverage on the BBC yesterday it was business as usual for the Radio 4 team this morning, looking at the new players in the transatlantic aviation business with no more than a raised eyebrow about the damage to the planet.

I think forest fires and floods will be the lesser wake up calls.
Major food shortages following massive crop failures and wars over food might be closer than we realise.

@Oliver Schick
https://www.donturbanisethedowns.com/

Anyone interested in protecting green space in the south east can make a comment on Sussex council planning portal using the link above.

Yes, of course you're right - but we shouldn't frighten the horses too much. People are unlikely to accept the full horror that faces them.

Meanwhile I think this is an interesting comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century

The Roman climate problem was tiny compared with ours, but it was evidently a factor. I am impressed by the similarity with poor constitutional arrangements which allowed things to deteriorate faster than they need have done. It's clear to me that the constitution in Britain and in the USA is no longer really 'fit for purpose'.