Summary

Amid record global heat and worsening climate disasters, 2024’s elections worldwide have highlighted declining political commitment to addressing the climate crisis.

Right-wing victories, including Trump’s U.S. win and climate-skeptic gains in Europe, have sidelined climate action, prioritizing inflation and energy costs instead.

The troubled Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan, marked by stalled emissions cuts and defiant pro-fossil fuel rhetoric, reflects this shift.

While some countries, like the UK, advanced climate agendas, overall momentum is fading, leaving activists and scientists alarmed as time to prevent catastrophic warming runs out.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Humans, once again, choose extinction because we’re fucking monkeys in pants flinging shit at each other.

    Honestly, if the majority of us are really this fuckstupid, maybe it’s genuinely deserved.

    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I’m losing interest in humans as well. They’re idiots and they chose their path. Let’s wait and see what’s next.

        • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          If we had achieved carcinization by now we wouldn’t have any of these problems — we’d be locking pincers in friendship, skittering sideways across a utopic planet. Alas.

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            4 months ago

            If octopuses lived longer than four years they would have done a better job.

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              And also were social. One of the things holding them back is despite their intelligence, they are solitary creatures, so they don’t work together to accomplish more than they can alone.

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                That’s a good observation, but I think it would also be overcome with a lifespan closer to human.

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    4 months ago

    “We can’t afford to spend money reducing climate change”

    Also:

    “There’s more floods, fires and hurricanes. And they’re getting worse. We can’t afford to keep rescuing people and rebuilding.”

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      To make a point you’d have to choose something we apparently can afford. What you describe is that we’re essentially broke and really can’t do anything about climate change.

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        4 months ago

        So, I guess we’ll just have to keep cleaning up the damage season after season, which will get much more expensive very quickly.

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        Investing in the future is always the less expensive solution over the long term. Unfortunately we have a bad habit of not thinking further ahead than the next election, or the next quarter profit statement.

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    4 months ago

    We are a population of stupid animals.

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        4 months ago

        Concrete in the air vents. They’ll either panic and use up their oxygen faster if they have an O2 sensor, or they’ll just fall asleep and die.

        Bunker is just an expensive mausoleum

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    4 months ago

    I don’t have great hopes for the Australian election 6 months away.