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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can do it! Only 3 to go! Don't forget to eat your 5 doses of microplastics per day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Like I have a choice....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the point where the narrative becomes 'too late, no point changing' ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No??? The whole reason we're in this mess is because of that exact line of thinking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Watch 'em try it anyway, the cunce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like there might be more to it than the line of thinking.

But seriously, can I finally give up sorting my recycling?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TL;DR the 9 boundaries:

  1. Flow of phosphorus & nitrogen into the environment (exceeded)
  2. Atmospheric CO2 (exceeded)
  3. "Radiative forcing", the balance of thermal energy absorbed by the sun and lost to space (exceeded)
  4. "Novel entities", artificial chemicals eg microplastics and PFAS forever chemicals (exceeded)
  5. Land use leading to forest loss (exceeded)
  6. Freshwater use (exceeded) <--- this is the latest boundary that has recently been crossed
  7. Ocean acidification
  8. Atmospheric aerosol loading
  9. Ozone depletion

Edit: It should also be said that the reason we've crossed boundary 6. Freshwater is because they've changed the way they measure it. Now it includes "green water", ie water that is available to plants but doesn't enter into aquifers, and it primarily reflects a decline in this green water availability rather than in surface and ground water.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe these are the seals of the apocalypse. We're in for a rough one either way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Reads title -oh cool!

clicks on article and reads it -oh, wait...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We call the next one the Annika Hansen line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if that reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Annika Hansen is the given name of popular Star Trek: Voyager character Seven of Nine, before she was assimilated into a cyborg hive mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Ok. If you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we're going for the high score