Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high | Oceans

Or me waiting for the housing bubble to pop so that I can buy a starter house.

If you ask nicely you could get an entire server for free, as there are thousands of outdated standby servers sitting in an Apple warehouse and they can't get shut of them! You just need a small industrial backup generator to fire one up!

I'm not worried about nuke, frankly. The potential for disaster even in the scope of current deregulation is very low. There is no nuclear disaster we know of today that couldn't have been avoided by planning or prudence, which doesn't necessarily conflict with deregulation. Chernobyl was using an outdated reactor design that is notoriously dangerous and difficult to contain during failure *(but I want to be clear, was not the result of Soviet or Russian incompetence and that myth has been weaponized against nuclear power and the Russian radiological establishment very unfairly)* while Fukushima probably should have been built with better Tsunami survivability in mind, and in fact the operators were warned years in advance that the facility could face larger tsunamis than in previous years. Of course, I'll be watching for shitty foundations and poor quality construction. No, the real concern I have is nuke-adjacent, which is Uranium processing and mining. Historically, regulation has been and largely still is piss-poor for handling of tailings, and I am not under the impression this administration or even better-minded future ones will update regulations and oversight without extreme scrutiny.

Don’t worry, they’ll just pivot to building a “Dyson Sphere” surrounding the whole solar system to be one big data center. Because these tech bros are actually incredibly f****** stupid.

"Yeah, but stopping any of that would upset like 500 billionaires and it is literally and physically impossible to ever upset them or else reality will collapse into itself. We'd better just let them r*** the planet and us to a slow death." -All of us, myself included, unfortunately

Yeah but the cool part is humanity will die out and earth and nature will keep doing their thing. Eventually it'll balance out in millions of years

How lucky are we, eh? We got to live during the peak of our species' achievements and also get to see how it will end. Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.

Let's not even think about top soil degradation on top of that...

"But why didn't anyone warn us??"

[Reminds me of this dude's take on Newsroom.](https://youtu.be/6CXRaTnKDXA?si=eBymC1v_-OD9_J5x)

When shit really hits the fan is when we start putting light reflecting aerosols in the atmosphere.

They will create a deadly pathogen and give themselves the cure. Global warming will be fixed by the billionaires killing 99% of humanity intentionally. The global warming that the billionaires are responsible for. They create the problem and their solution is to kill you, me, and all of our neighbors. 

I wish so much of the common discussion wasn't along the lines of "We're going to destroy life on Earth!" That's kinda peak human hubris to believe that we'd be capable of ending life on the planet even if every single person made it their sole mission. An asteroid has struck the planet with many many times more force than all the nuclear weapons we've ever developed combined, and life has prevailed. The oceans have entirely frozen over, the ice caps have completed melted, and life has prevailed. Our biosphere is one tough cookie and capable of reaching equilibrium again practically no matter what happens to it. Once one variable gets out of control, there's feedback loops that bring it right back down. Humanity might make a small portion of species go extinct (Really just a Bad Monday for the planet considering what its going through), but after that blip it'll bring itself right back into equilibrium. And it'll probably do it without even making us as a species go extinct, and instead "only" bring us down to a population of a couple million globally or so. Our planet is resilient. Our agriculture, infrastructure, and civilization as a whole is very decidedly NOT so. Heck if something happens to 3 specific food crops (Rice, Wheat, Corn), it'll easily wipe out at least half of us. And those 3 are in the same family, so its not unlikely for something that effects one to affect the other two as well.

True actually. Look at China, at least you get high speed rail for the cruelty.

Pretty depressing if you think about it too much. It's seeing all the other wonderful life on this planet collapse around us that gets me the worst All while people wonder "is there life out there" in the universe. Like, are you f****** kidding me? People just walk around with blinkers on, ignoring the reality of where we as a species and a planet are heading. And we're only accelerating in that direction. But hey, if we get to ask a computer to research recipe books for us or come up with ideas for anniversary gifts and it does it all like magic, then who cares!

Good paper! I will say, "fun" is not the word I'd use to describe it...

That was in Jan of this year, too. So, it's undoubtedly closer to midnight after the Iran situation. Especially after the "bring about Armageddon" shit we hear the christian "fundamentalists" talking about.

Thats basically whats going to happen im sorry

Even if you eliminate the bonuses, the board will just fire the CEO if they feel that they aren’t driving enough value 

how do you feel, ethically, about human beings and their vices (e.g. greed and apathy) being the cause of this extinction, instead of natural causes like the last examples?

4 billion years and a multitude of extinction events. We're destroying the potential habitability of it for a period of time. The sun won't turn for another 4. Life will persist and the earth will rebalance and heal, as it has many times before. It just won't be with life as we currently know it, and yes it's really sad to think about. But truthfully, the earth is just a chunk of rock hurling through space at the right time to support life lol. Assigning some higher degree of importance to it implies you know that things won't recover, AND that there are no other planets in our galaxy like it.