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SUPER El Niño 2023 is Going to be a Beast! (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by EthicalAI to c/environment

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Will this finally wake up the “average” American to the seriousness of climate change and mobilize a wartime effort? I’ll believe it when I see it. But eventually the personal affects have to hit most Americans and wake them up right?

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[–] interolivary 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will this finally wake up the “average” American to the seriousness of climate change and mobilize a wartime effort?

It will not, and the same stands for "average" citizens in any western country.

I'd hate to be a doomer but it's obvious that nothing will change until things get disastrous enough that it's already much too late.

[–] EthicalAI 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right but just like you said “until it gets disastrous enough”. It sounds like this will be several years of constant death from heat, fires, drought, fish die offs, Atlantic hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. not like that wasn’t already happening.

I can definitely “feel” climate change more so than say in the 2000s when we knew it was happening but it wasn’t really effecting us.

[–] interolivary 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm Finnish and the areas around the Arctic have been warming 4x faster than eg. continental Europe, and it's immediately obvious that things just aren't the same as they were 20 or let alone 40 years ago, but the majority is still in denial here. Our fresh Minister of Finance and the head of one of our extreme right wing parties has said publicly that she thinks climate scientists are literal Stalinists. At least our new Minister of the Environment actually believes in climate change, which I guess is something.

[–] EthicalAI 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s CRAZY!? Glad to know it’s not just Americans, but if the disinformation is global damn we are doomed.

[–] interolivary 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it seems reich-wing nutballs across the world are copying your reich-wing nutballs

[–] EthicalAI 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rupert Murdoch is Australian and I believe a lot of this hit Europe when he started funding shit over there, so blame Australia

[–] interolivary 1 points 1 year ago

Ha, true. I'll blame Murdoch instead of all Strayans though