Steely Dad posted:

content is the only thing left to hope for

Steely Dad posted:

Content is the only thing left to hope for

The Slack Lagoon posted:

my basement keeps flooding and it's going to flood more thx climate change

The Slack Lagoon posted:

my basement keeps flooding and it's going to flood more thx climate change

Paradoxish posted:

hey if that's all that happens you're pretty lucky tbh

so many people are going to discover their houses are unlivable and their insurance company's response will just be "lol"

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i haven't been able to read the last 1200 posts

can i assume it's not that bad yet

Ashcans posted:

I assume if your house is now covered by the ocean you property deed isn't valid anymore, but you'll still be on the hook for the mortgage.

Complications posted:

Presumably the mortgage is secured by the house, so you leave the ocean and the bank gets the home. Also your good peasant score credit rating is shot because peasants aren't allowed to walk away from bad debt without retribution.

Ashcans posted:

I assume if your house is now covered by the ocean you property deed isn't valid anymore, but you'll still be on the hook for the mortgage.

Car Hater posted:

2.7 C isn't that concerning you doomer, there will only be thousands of additional deaths directly attributable to heat waves

Mr. Lobe posted:

And merely millions from food insecurity

Homeless Friend posted:

Rime posted:

U.N. warns world set for 2.7C rise on today's emissions pledges

LMAO Status: Probably just dropping out of society to be a bum this winter.

Lost Time posted:

lol, 2.7C seems optimistic. And it's based on current pledges, which probably aren't even close to being fulfilled anyways, and likely won't ever be.

If they were all to come out with some bullshit new pledge that brings the numbers closer to the still hellscape of 2C, does anyone anywhere actually expect them to do any meaningful work towards those goals? Blah blah blah as they say.

Trabisnikof posted:

Funny how this thread is all about how we need to reduce the population on earth and then when capitalism comes up with a plan to do it sooner than anyone realized all of a sudden there’s whine whine whine about “wah billions will starve” “wah baby needs water to live”

Trabisnikof posted:

Funny how this thread is all about how we need to reduce the population on earth and then when capitalism comes up with a plan to do it sooner than anyone realized all of a sudden there’s whine whine whine about “wah billions will starve” “wah baby needs water to live”

Complications posted:

This thread wants the ruling class to die. Only the proles will be starving.

Rime posted:

Funny Story: virtually every "Advocating Eugenics" or "thirsting for genocide" entry in my rap sheet comes from reasonably pointing out that Capitalism will allow billions to die quite unpleasantly - and coddled westerners will largely cheer this process on until the noose is firmly around their own necks.

Homeless Friend posted:

don't throw the bathwater out with the baby

Rime posted:

Funny Story: virtually every "Advocating Eugenics" or "thirsting for genocide" entry in my rap sheet comes from reasonably pointing out that Capitalism will allow billions to die quite unpleasantly - and coddled westerners will largely cheer this process on until the noose is firmly around their own necks.

Trabisnikof posted:

what percent of the global population do you think is ruling class?

when people say we need to reduce our population i don't think they mean to only 7,000,000,000 people

Torpor posted:

we’re cruising for under a billion miserable people right now. you can move those numbers and percentages around however you like. you won’t be around to tell if you guessed right.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

The capitalists are killing us with their economic and social systems.
Oh dear, what should we do?
Well there's too many people you see.
Ah, right, too many capitalists - agreed, yes, let's kill them.
No you fool, you simpering moron, if we kill them there's still too many people left and everyone will die because of what the capitalists have already done!
Ah, right, too many people and capitalists - agreed, yes, let's kill them.
I would never do such a thing.
Pardon?
I've never killed and I never would. I mean maybe I could bring myself to kill a capitalist but not the innocent people.
Ah, right, it's much the same with me.
Of course, yes, we're both civilized here.
What do you propose?
Well, we should tell the capitalists to please kill people in a more specific way.
How do you mean?
Intentional culling.
Ah, right, yes. Of course. And who should we cull?
Reckon it's not up to us, we who cannot kill. No, no we will need to let the capitalists decide.
Very wise, yes.

Trabisnikof posted:

so sounds like depopulation achieved, and that depopulating couldn't happen by getting rid of the elites alone.

Stereotype posted:

the reason that neoliberalism is so popular is that it removes any direct ties between decision makers and consequences. if you want to do something that will be universally considered heinous and wicked, then you instead devise and implement a system that will do that thing. then when people are outraged you can point at the system and lament that no one could have possibly foreseen this terrible outcome. by then the thing is already done though, so you succeeded, thing accomplished. people might even like you more when you "dismantle" the system that did the terrible thing, even if you don't actually do that; no one can immediately identify exactly how the complex system resulted in the consequences, and you can rest safe in the fact that very few will ever investigate further.