• @hark@lemmy.world
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    607 months ago

    This is why it’s silly hearing billionaires, who do the most damage to our planet, telling us how urgently we need to “get off this rock” which has supported life for millions of years in favor of some dead planet. It’s really just an extension of capitalism that demands infinite space to exploit, instead of being content with sustainability.

    • @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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      157 months ago

      It should also be a strong strong signal to stop listening to the apes that are hoarding all the bananas, and instead, eat that banana-hoarding abhorrence.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      37 months ago

      The term translates horribly into Finnish: “maankaltaistaminen”. “To make like Earth/ground/dirt” and “make like” as in “type”, not “form”.

      So it could be like “earthlikening” instead of “terraforming”.

      Which makes me think of this Wikipedia that’s written in the way they imagine English could’ve evolved if it wasn’t influenced by Latin.

      https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf

      for instance their article on maths starts with:

      Telcraft (scorelore, rimecraft or reckonlore) (English: Mathematics) is the smeying of scorings, or the recking of begrips such as score, room, shift, and forebuilding. Benjamin Peirce called it “the cunning which draws needful outcomes”.

      Through foredeeming and wordlock mulling, scorelore arose from notching, reckoning, deeming, and the learning of sheathes and shapes.

      Knowledge and note of fern scorelore have always been a spanning and a needful lifetool, as can be witnessed from orshafts of Egypt, Bearithland, Indland, China and Frodland. Furthermore, the Ishango bone is more than 20 thousand years old.

      Titillating, isn’t it?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      87 months ago

      Earth’s surface is 2/3rds water and that’s not changing.

      But intense heat means more storms with stronger winds and heavier rain. Imagine a Cat 5 hitting the coast every year.

    • @PanArab@lemm.ee
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      No, that would be mercuryforming Earth. Earth will still have an atmosphere and rainfall, though it may no longer be livable for humans.

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      The magnetosphere has been weakening in strength due to the ongoing pole shift over the past 30 years, which will peak in the 2040s when the poles will fully shift. I pray there will be no solar flares in the direction of earth during this event, otherwise most of unshielded electric equipment will get fried, including energy infrastructure.

      Magnetic pole shifting

      • @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        27 months ago

        No way. Is that really happening? The magnetic poles are flipping the 2040s? How often does that happen? Old compasses won’t be correct? Will it affect anything else (Aurora Borealis?, etc?)

        I’m plumb flummoxed.

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          Aurora Borealis will be more visible because of the weakened magnetosphere. I don’t know what implications this will have on the world in practice.

          You can watch this video for some more information: https://youtu.be/1sDZiCLUW8I

  • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    57 months ago

    Venusforming earth is a lot like terraforming mars, it’s just hard to reach. If 200 years ago we were able to easily reach mars, we would have fucked up that too

  • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    17 months ago

    The government never built a weather machine. But the oil companies built a carbon machine that’s doing a fantastic job changing the weather, and they knew it 50 years ago.

  • @Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    17 months ago

    Not one single government cares so much about it tho.

    Higher temperatures will free up soil for agriculture in upper and lower latitudes. With luck, population size will keep increasing then for those countries and also quality of life

    Coastal cities can fight it, at least some to some degree.

    If we get fusion between our lifetimes, things are going to get even better

    • @zarathustra0@lemmy.world
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      107 months ago

      Not one single government cares so much about it tho.

      Way to generalise, bro. There are some low lying island states that are going to disappear under the rising sea levels. I think they are taking it pretty seriously.

      Don’t bullshit please.

      • @Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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        17 months ago

        If people and government really cared that much about it, we all would be living in a totalitarian planetary government, controlling by the milligram every expense that is not calorically viable to post culling population of billions.

        Either or they ALL would be pumping up so much nuclear centrals that we be drowning on the almost free energy

        Either that, or they ALL would be pushing for the creation and implementation of a totally viable lunar base to construct a full orbital cache of microwave solar emitters, with the accompanying swarm of orbital mirrors to reduce the sun’s impact on the atmosphere

        We see advance in neither of those

        So yeah who’s bullshitting who. I know they don’t care and don’t have to pretend like they do

        Your pathological need to believe a blatant lie due to your own powerlessness? That’s all on you

  • @Hellsfire29@lemmy.world
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    17 months ago

    Earth has been around for 4.5 million years. Humans have only been around for 300,000 years approximately. With only a few hundred years of the industrial age.

    Would a few hundred years really cause an extinction event?

    That’s interesting to think about… Perhaps it’ll take a few hundreds/thousand years to fix. If it can be fixed… Or we get hit by an asteroid first…

    Between cutting down all of the trees and other pollutants, like these so called environmentalists flying around in their own private jets, it’ll be fun for a while.

    Either the humans will die off due to global warming/runaway greenhouse effect before interstellar travel is achieved, or the humans will die off due to the suns transformation into a red giant before interstellar travel is achieved.

    IDK. Either way, we won’t be here for long. But the earth will be long after us.

    Will technology save the human race beyond the two inevitable events? Probably not.