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- climate@slrpnk.net
More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C].
The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.
The institute said such a high number of deaths was unusual and suggested record-high lake temperatures and an historic drought in the Amazon may have been the cause.
The news is likely to add to the concerns of climate scientists over the effects human activity and extreme droughts are having on the region.
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If we stopped the economy and stopped all emissions worldwide, this progression would still occur for more than 2 decades.
This is just the beginning for stuff we did since y2k.
By the time we actually make serious change, it will be far too late.
Happy Sunday. Enjoy football.
If we stopped the economy and stopped all emissions worldwide, this progression would still occur for more than 2 decades.
The economy did basically stop for a month in March 2020, and pollution dropped incredibly.
Change is possible. We just don’t want it.
The problem lies with the people.
People did try to increase taxes for things like funding public transport or on CO2 but people don’t want less consumption they want more. Can’t even get Americans to stop driving huge oversized cars. We can’t built cycling lanes. We can put taxes on imports from polluting countries. We can’t ban gas and force heat pumps and induction.
People do not want change.
Because of that the business do business as usual. It’s the responsibility of the people to get leaders and laws in place to reduction consumption. But the people really really don’t want that so it isn’t going to happen.
It’s tough to see stuff like this and not think that we are helplessly doomed.
All the flooding… water temps over 100…
And crude oil is like $90 a barrel.
It gets easier to process the more you accept that we are bound for civilizational collapse, due to runaway climate catastrophes.
