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Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points
(www.economist.com)
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90% of earths top soil is at risk of depletion by 2050
Fresh water demand globally will exceed supply by 40% by 2030
We're not surviving the century.
Might be sooner. That article is from 2023, that was before the rush of all these new data centers, who all needs billions of gallons of water a day to operate.
I've not found any updates on these statistics yet, but when I do I'll be using them instead.
People need to understand how fucked we are.
Let me run a few barf-gpt prompts until I find one that can refute your remarks and show you how those datacentres will have no environmental impacts at all.
Holy shit...I can't believe I hadn't seen that water article until now. That should have been the top headline of every news outlet, every day.
It was pretty big news on the day it hit the papers in the UK, I think it was front page of the Guardian.
Everyone was shocked and horrified on that day about it, comments and posts everywhere, and then it faded away over the following days and weeks as more shocking and horrifying news about other stuff was published, till everyone forgot how shocking and horrifying this was.
We are caught in a system from which there is no escape and which dictates every facet of human civilization. It will not stop until it has consumed everything, at which point it will collapse, crushing humanity under the flaming rubble.
We are about to get great filter'd.
Yup. And we completely deserve this.
I certainly fucking hope not, clean the slate and lets hope a species less addicted to loud angry leaders wins the intelligence lottery