I often go back to this interview specifically for this moment:
I was talking to a really prominent climate scientist a few months ago, who was one of the lead authors of the IPCC last report, and has been doing a lot of consulting work in New York City where he lives. So I said, “Are we gonna build a sea wall in New York?” And he said, “Oh, of course we’ll build a sea wall. Manhattan real estate’s way too expensive to lose.” But those kinds of projects … You look at the subway, it takes 30 years.
If we started now, he said, we couldn’t build it fast enough to save parts of Howard Beach, South Brooklyn, Queens. He said, “The city knows this, and you’re gonna start seeing them stopping infrastructure repair, not doing work on the subway lines and even telling those residents explicitly, ‘You might be able to live here for another 20 years, but you’re not gonna be able to leave this house for your kids.’”
As far as I’m aware they still haven’t started. From an article in 2024:
I spend a decent amount of time with extremely “ordinary fuckin people”, and they really aren’t the worst, most people just seem to be tuned out. But especially with regards to the climate crisis and capitalist greed destroying us all, the majority of people seem to be in agreement.
Comrade Dirt Owl, is there any book that I can read about the FREAKING ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE AND THE ESTIMATED EFFECTS FOR THE NEXT DECADES???
Thank you.
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David Wallace-Wells put out ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ which I think is supposed to be worst case scenario.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fighting-climate-action-uninhabitable-earth-author-david-wallace-wells-podcast-ncna979551
I often go back to this interview specifically for this moment:
As far as I’m aware they still haven’t started. From an article in 2024:
https://newrepublic.com/article/178452/clean-air-rich-luxury-good
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I spend a decent amount of time with extremely “ordinary fuckin people”, and they really aren’t the worst, most people just seem to be tuned out. But especially with regards to the climate crisis and capitalist greed destroying us all, the majority of people seem to be in agreement.
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Thank you very much! Also thanks to JoeByeThen!
Totally. At the end of the day, we need to keep fighting.
Hasta la victoria, siempre.