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Ignoring the climate emergency (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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• Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold
(archived link)

• A warming climate continues to ravage sea ice at both poles
(archived link)

• Drought conditions cover a record swath of the U.S.
(archived link)

• The world promised to tame methane, but emissions are still rising
(archived link)

• Horrific details emerge of how victims died in Spain’s flash floods
(archived link)

• Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate

• Record air pollution hospitalizes hundreds in Pakistan
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• Warming seas wipe out Greece's mussel harvest
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• Toxic smog in Pakistan is so bad you can see it from space
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• Record global warming risks aggravating war and violence
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• White truffles, Italy's gold, menaced by climate change
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Ed Abbey is right, and I think he did a lot more productive than Thoreau, but that's Thoreau. What Cactus Ed said was:

“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “this far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior.”