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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hottest 36 days ever recorded...so far.

[–] AllonzeeLV 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (41 children)

Nobody panic!

The only people that matter, who also happen to be the ones that caused and continue to exacerbate the climate apocalypse knowingly for private profit, have built luxury bunker complexes in temperate places like New Zealand to shield themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

No one important is in danger, just us billions of disposable capital batteries, no biggie.

Now get back to work! The owners/Pharoahs/oligarchs/beloved job creators have quarterly ego score expectations to exploit out of you before you die of heat stroke as a result of your bad decisions, like being poor!

[–] psud 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In 1988 my uncle was working as a chemist for the oil industry in Oman. When he was home he'd tell us about global warming from carbon dioxide from burning oil

In the industry they knew. In politics they knew. But it made a lot of money and they'd be dead before New York would be flooded

I wish aging had been solved back then, so those people would know they'd live to see the impending disaster

RIP Great Barrier Reef this coming southern summer

[–] jarfil 4 points 1 year ago

New York won't get flooded for another 100-200 years... we may still need to solve the aging problem if we want to avoid that.

[–] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd 1 points 1 year ago

Solving aging won't solve anything, these sociopaths thrive in disasters, inviting and using them to amass more power and wealth across the globe, they're evil scum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Scientists knew in the early 1900s.

[–] CitizenKong 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

New Zealand won't be exempt from climate change and they have to come out of their bunkers at some point. I always ask myself what good their money will be when global trade collapses. How long until their security guards realize that they hold the real power?

[–] jarfil 7 points 1 year ago

Security guards have families, families can be held ~~hostage~~ safely in the bunker while the guards battle the hungry hordes outside.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hottest 36 days on record. Also the coolest summer we can expect to see for the rest of our lives.

[–] gornar 5 points 1 year ago

People generally don't realize this, but it'll become apparent soon enough!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Laughs and sobs simultaneously

[–] AllonzeeLV 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, if I were an alien looking down at us little billions of ants destroying their own habitat to construct tributes to a few thousand fat ants, to the point all the ants were about to die off, I'd be tilting my head and laughing my alien ass off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'd be really sad, because I have empathy. Of course, maybe you'd be a psychopathic alien who laughs at injustice and pain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Funny you say that...