• ☼ Pero@lemmy.zip
    1·
    17 hours ago

    F) Move to a dreamy Mediterranean island in middle of nowhere and worry about nothing. :)

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Why not get ready for a global happy society? Instead of preparing for doom, time can be spent on making the world good.

  • dustycups@aussie.zone
    15·
    2 days ago

    Old mate: I mean just look at it.

    Me: What?

    Old mate: This. All of it. A billion miles of sterile space and billion dead years either side of our miraculous existence and here you are bitching about your little problems. The sun will wipe this lot clean soon enough. Get over yourself.

    Me: Um, sorry mate. You OK?

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      1·
      14 hours ago

      And some say the end is near.
      Some say we’ll see Armageddon soon.
      Certainly hope we will
      I sure could use a vacation from this
      stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit.

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Simmons: You ever wonder why we’re here?

      Grif: It’s one of life’s great mysteries isn’t it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don’t know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Just wait until we hit the ocean acidification tipping point where it becomes chemically impossible for certain tiny creatures at the base of the food chain to form calcium-based hard shells.

      The whole ocean won’t hit that point all at the same time, but once we get close, it will happen very rapidly, affecting most of the oceans in the world within a few years. Entire ocean ecosystems will rapidly collapse when the bottom of the food chain falls out from under them. Already-strained fisheries will suddenly run completely out of fish, quickly driving the last few populations to extinction. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for our problems. Those tiny organisms have a profound impact on the entire world’s climate and weather patterns, as well as being a huge part of the carbon cycle. When the oceans die, the effects felt on land will be extreme. And it will drastically accelerate carbon accumulation and climate change – those calcium-based hard shells are calcium carbonate, which incorporate carbon and often end up sequestering it on the sea floor when the creature dies, where it could stay locked away for millions to billions of years. Without them removing carbon from circulation, climate change will get far worse and accelerate much faster (which, in turn, makes ocean acidification worse, so there’s no going back once we hit that tipping point).

  • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I’m not worried about a pandemic. If scientific experts with no connections to the Republican party say the Hanta virus is low risk to spread, then I trust them.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Don’t worry about this pandemic.

      But the next one, and the one after that? Maybe worth worrying about. Sooner or later, one that is a high risk will come around. And if it happens within the next 3 years or so, you can count on this regime doing exactly the wrong thing and making it worse than it otherwise would have been. Even if it happens later than that, with a responsible government in charge … there’s only so much that even a good government can do against a truly virulent plague.