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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yes,but...

The problem as I see it, is we'd need to revert to what's little better than subsistence farming (in a village model) in order to weather the storm that's coming. That's fundamentally at odds with people's day to day interest and our greed...

Carbon sequestering helps, but we still need to drastically downsize our daily conveniences (oh, and fuck cars!), which our brain is basically wired against doing (in terms of a short term pain with an eye on the long term benefit).

[-] MelonTheMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree we likely need to downsize a lot of our daily conveniences (yeah fuck cars!) But I'd urge against trying to envision the solution before working on solving the problem. Saying we need to resort to subsistence farming in communities - why? We create food on a massive scale currently, and tons of it go to waste. Additionally so much of agriculture is lost to inefficiency through the meat industry.

Surely it would make more sense to focus on those two levers first before resorting to what sounds like feudal society.

Not looking to debate details, just urging a rational and realistic approach through steps that are achievable.

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