Climate General: News and Research of What Climate Change Means For Our Collective Future

Here's some papers if anyone wants them. Easy, short reads. Something to take away is that as the climate changes, some species won't just die, they will travel outside their native areas and wreak havoc on other ecosystems. It also means that species that do well in warm environments will spread, like mosquitoes and cockroaches.

Reading these threads make me want to kill myself. What the fuck is the point anymore. It didn't have to be like this.

There is no point. Embrace the hopelessness and start from there.

My dude, what did you think enlightenment would feel like?
It isn't a cozy Kumbaya one with the universe feeling - it's having everything you thought you knew scribbled out under the weight of a new found truth. It's realizing that your previous hopes and dreams were built on a fiction, an incorrect assessment of reality. It doesn't feel good, it feels real.

What you do now that you have a more accurate understanding of the world you live in is up to you. The meaning and value of life has always been in the eye of the beholder.

The only advise I can impart is this - a lot more people are realizing how fucked we are and a lot more will be coming to the same conclusion as things drag on and get worse. A lot of those people will be suffering trying to come to grips with this new understanding of reality that flies so contrary to everything they were taught and everything they thought they knew and everything they had hoped for. If you can, be there for those people and you may be able to help each other find new way of living.

The worst tanker oil spill in decades is unfolding in the East China Sea

reuters.com/article/us-china-shipping-spill/how-sanchis-spill-could-spread-idUSKBN1FF1AK

Projected spread: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/CHINA-SHIPPING-SPILL/010060NC166/index.html

Yeah, an Iranian oil tanker doing business with China exploded, no foul play here…

A third of coral reefs 'entangled with plastic'

bbc.com/news/science-environment-42821004

It's okay, most of the planet's coral reefs are already dead, so soon it won't matter how much plastic is in them.

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Did you even read the article?