It's a human decision as it's humans who can make this decision.

However it's a decision that only a very small minority of humans can do, most of us have no say in this.

You mean the Pope who stood up so firmly against sexual abuse in his own house?

Dream on.

No, no, I've never said that. I am myself highly worried about many countries going further and further right.

I just thought that maybe there is a either European or international law that prohibits hindering people that help dying people. I'm pretty sure that there used to be a naval code, that sailors must help sailors.

I am not so crazy to think that it would have a high impact, but maybe Europe could threaten cutting financial aid or whatever.

But I see your point. With many countries going racist and with even a European border militia (Frontex), it's probably only in the interest of Europe to look away.

Imagine a world, where one gets punished for helping dying people.

No need to imagine, we live in that world.

But isn't there any European legislative that could overrule Italian's racist government?

“Summed up, the industry’s treadmill is speeding up and this will make production growth more difficult than it was in the past,”

And I am darn happy about that! Still shamelessly talking about growth, that's just crazy.

Hey, I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but try to help in case you really seek answers to your questions:

1880 was much cooler than today, globally about 1°C cooler. You'll find plenty of graphs showing the history of global temperatures online and animated videos on YouTube.

There have been times, where Earth has been hotter than today. We know quite a lot about Earth's history, it's astonishing. However, the big problem we are facing today isn't the temperature itself, but the speed of the change happening. When climate changes naturally it takes thousands of years. This allows for many plants and animals to adapt and migrate, not all though. Some are always left behind in this circle of life.

Today's temperature change appears to be faster than anything we see in history, posing the worry that a lot of life forms will not be able to adapt in time. If I recall correctly, today's atmosphere is changing about 200 times faster than it did during the most severe mass extinctions in history we know about and animals go extinct about 1000 times faster than they should in a world without humans.

In today's articles you often see "since 1880". There is older temperature data, both from thermometers as also from other more abstract sources, as for example air bubbles trapped in ice cores give an atmosphere reading of a time long ago etc. However, older measurements are highly localized and don't cover enough places of earth to get a reliable reading of global average temperatures.

It is also possible, that we will see this "measuring starting point" 1880 go back to earlier decades in future, as there are still tons of records that aren't evaluated yet. One example would be the detailed sailing ship logs of previous centuries that cover wide areas of Earth.

It seems to get more difficult to end an article with optimisms:

But it would be wrong to call what is happening a "climate collapse" [...] we still have time to secure a liveable future for many

For many, hm.

Reminded my of another article ending on

Here is where we need to invest and make changes and innovate and not give up. We can’t just write off billions of people.

Article mentioned

If "average" only would mean that the temperature is the same everywhere.

Man, you are so right. The weirdest part is, that your behavior isn't even socially very accepted.

I, too, love engines. I admire the technology and how genius they are put together. My dream is to own a cruiser motorbike and go drive through the countryside. I don't think this will happen, as I would hate myself to burn fuel for pleasure.

I own a very old, tiny scooter, that I only use to carry heavy stuff. I used to carry on my shoulders, but mom in law felt sorry for me and gave me her oldest, broken, rusty scooter, that nobody used for months, because she bought a new one again. I repaired it. My wife gets upset, when I don't drive her around. For example to the market 500 meters down the road to buy a can of soda or so. I only use it for hard work.

People surrounding me think I don't like progress. No, man, I would love to have a more convenient life! Driving to me is fun, I enjoy it! I just can't stand myself to do something bad to environment for my pleasure, so I try not to. And people think I'm weird.

I know people like you and me don't even make a difference. Whatever amount we save and not emit in our whole lifetime - some ignorant wealthy will blow out within 5 minutes.

This is just sickening! I'm not sure if I want to vomit or rage.

Oh yeah, this is definitely hot! Shoot me up there into the endless fediverse! It's time to discover all those niche galaxies riding a nice vessel!

No, nothing has "infested" Lemmy. It's just that many people understand, that rails are much more efficient than roads and that individual traffic on large scale has no future. At least if you want our future to be survivable.