Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.
  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    So, are we going to organise a general strike to enforce change or should we start preparing for a different climate?

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      Currently a general strike in the US is planned for May 1st 2028 to coincide with the UAW’s contract ending. Unfortunately that’s 3 years away, and I doubt climate policy is going to be a focus of that strike.

      Hopefully we can organize one sooner, but we’ll see. Syndicalist unions independent of corporate control would be the most likely to initiate a general strike, so I’d recommend joining up and unionizing your job with them if you can.

      I also hope the rest of the world pushes for their own general strikes.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
    321·
    1 month ago

    Wrong. There’s always going to be a worse impact. There’s no upper bound to how bad things can get.

    • kapulsa@feddit.org
      9·
      1 month ago

      For humanity, there is. The impact we’re facing right now is the end of civilization before the end of the century. The impact we’re facing if we don’t act within 3 years is extinction. The speed of these impacts may vary slightly, though.

  • chunes
    17·
    1 month ago

    Too optimistic. We are already 15 years past the “3 more years” of the past.

  • x00zEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    You would think even the most selfish politicians and CEOs have already experienced some extreme events at this point.

    • DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca
      13·
      1 month ago

      They will be safe in their air conditioned, walled, armed guarded, coal powered compounds. The rest of us are expendable to them.

        • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de
          11·
          1 month ago

          Well considering they have so much wealth, they can just build their Shangri la on top of Mount Everest or 50 miles below earth, and continue their existence, I’d say indefinitely.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            Do they have indefinite food stores? Stock values aren’t going to mean much then.

            I’m pretty sure that’s why Zuckerberg is trying to own that whole Hawaiian island. He’s still going to need help farming it.

            • DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca
              4·
              1 month ago

              Once there’s no governments to make stuff like pesky anti-slavery laws I’m sure he’ll find a way to justify whatever cruelty pleases him.

              • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                1 month ago

                He doesn’t have the charisma for that. I’m sure someone does, but communities will be better at survival in that scenario.

        • CalipherJonesEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          The Global South will be the ones to take on the brunt of the suffering, as is tradition.

      • x00zEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Well there’s ones that are golfing all the time and laying in the sun on their yachts.

  • Lovable SidekickEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Well then brace for impact I guess, because we know we aren’t going to change how we do things much in the next 5 years.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
      5·
      1 month ago

      What do you plan to do with a hoard of guns and ammo? Get yourself killed so people can loot your bunker?

  • MTK
    12·
    1 month ago

    I can’t wait for a study in 3 years labled “We are doomed”

  • pinheadednightmare
    529·
    2 months ago

    Honestly, I’m done caring. I hope this bitch gets burnt to the ground. The humans that run the show have made living in this world miserable. I would rather die naturally and hope that there is some kind of second life or reincarnation.