I work at a factory that makes components for electric vehicles, and also sells some stuff to defense contractors on the side. Two years ago, the Trump Administration completely fucked over my company by threatening previously-guaranteed CHIPS money and magically deleting Inflation Reduction Act measures intended to encourage adoption of EVs. Our demand dropped like a rock, we laid off 80% of our workforce, raises got frozen, equity turned to dust, etc. Then the US did Israel's bidding and started this asinine war with Iran. For a month there was nothing. Then the defense orders came trickling in. Then we couldn't keep those tools running fast enough. Finally, two months later, the EV stuff showed up like a flash flood in the Grand Canyon. Insane we were almost bankrupted by his stupidity, then saved by it. For my part, I'm going to try to upgrade my gas furnace to a heat pump before it gets cold.
Christ I wish housing wasn't so fucked in the UK. The odds of my landlord replacing the ancient gas boiler with a heat pump is nil, not when we're still fitting millions of new gas boilers, even to the few new builds that make it through planning ffs. Even if I owned my house a heat pump might not be feasible for various reasons, many of them down to our housing stock just being totally naff in various ways.
Don't get me wrong the Russians love to exaggerate our problems, but the best thing we can do to fuck the Kremlin over is getting the natural gas needle out of our collective arms which we're just not that interested in doing. Sure the grid is decarbonising but the majority of heating is still natural gas, and the grid can't be upgraded to fix this due to our genuine economic self-harm of discretionary planning where bored retirees and self-interested QUANGOs can delay everything to the point of non-viability.
Are photovoltaics an option for you? I can buy a pallet of 32 of them for about $5k and from what I understand, this is despite hefty tariffs. They're approaching impulse buy territory. That said, I'm capable of installing them myself, which is a big part of the cost for most installations.
it's the solution for white people. china has been steaming along at a breakneck pace towards renewable energy for years now. if it wasn't for their production capacity for photovoltaic cells and batteries, there wouldn't be a solar revolution right now.
of course, they also released a ton of oil when the Iran war started picking up, so that wasn't great, but it also maybe saved our asses as well.
while the plight of the Uyghur and other minority groups, and the deeply state-enforced Han supremacist policies are something to criticize China for, it has nothing to do with the recent move towards solar and renewable energy, and is a good example of whataboutism.
also, it's a bit racist to think of the Uyghurs and assume that they must be Arabs or Persians. the Uyghurs are native to central and east Asia, not what Westerners would refer to as the "Middle East", or West Asia/Eastern Africa.
Yeah, all the current events making diesel more expensive suck, and will hurt everyone's budget regardless if they drive. But we all know we need to use less diesel, right? We've just found the worst possible way to reduce the world's reliance on diesel.
Can you imagine if this is Trump's deal, all along? Take the fall for being a douche, while waging war on Iran, making oil scarce, forcing us all to rely less on it, saving the planet?
Oh my god someone slap me out of this shit. I need to recenter myself. 🤚🫱😳💨
You know, I'm convinced with the right person in his ear, he could be convinced to play that angle.....Pysch! I was just doing this to save the world. Now we're going fully renewable! He just needs to believe that he'll be hailed as a hero.
Might have been an understandable (albeit crass) geopolitical play if the West was leading in renewables but instead it has pushed low and middle income countries further into China's sphere of influence and also into purchasing more Russian oil.
History will see this as an accelerant in the process of global power shifting from West to East. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, the West has been resting on its laurel's for a bit too long now, so this was likely an inevitable transition.
At that point, such a high percentage of people will be seeking wildfire/flood/hurricane/etc. relief that your footage won't even make the first 10 pages of GoFundMe
Frankly, I'd prefer this over the more likely scenario: Not all locations are equally susceptible to climate change related disasters. The people who made their wealth wrecking the earth are going to fill those places, and leave the rest of us to survive as best we can in the hurricanes, mudslides, and heatwaves.
There was drought in Wales. I know non-UK people might not appreciate how wild this is, so I'll add that Wales is popularly considered the place where they make the rain. Not this year though!
It's incredibly depressing that rich countries (mostly NA, EU, Japan) account for 92% of all CO2 emissions to date, but only suffer 1% of deaths, and about 15% of material damages caused by climate change.
Or by the time it arrives in your area you're used to it and don't bother anymore to film it.
There's a generation alive now that never knew a normal climate.
I think Ontario has the craziest dichotomy here. You can live right in the middle of the biggest collection of surface freshwater on the planet, and it's the fires that are most likely to get you.
I agree. Look at how many natural disasters have happened recently and what are people doing? Nothing. What are politicians or people who hold power are doing? They are Building more data centre and accelerating more industries that will lead to a faster destruction of this planet.
Cyclone Chido hit us in december 2024, it felt a bit like the end of days. I think it was comparable to what people near or in the gulf of Mexico experience every few years. Then I saw what hit Nepal not even a month ago (GLOF or glacial lake outburst flood), then the floods in China. These are terrifying. They can't happen where I live but there are other perils : running out of drinking water, more cyclones. We're entering rainy season now.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 21h
The Iran War is going to decrease fossil fuel consumption globally for the first time since COVID.
Shame we're locked into ten more years of escalation. But we've actually turned a corner, believe it or not.
adjectivenoun@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 17h
I work at a factory that makes components for electric vehicles, and also sells some stuff to defense contractors on the side. Two years ago, the Trump Administration completely fucked over my company by threatening previously-guaranteed CHIPS money and magically deleting Inflation Reduction Act measures intended to encourage adoption of EVs. Our demand dropped like a rock, we laid off 80% of our workforce, raises got frozen, equity turned to dust, etc. Then the US did Israel's bidding and started this asinine war with Iran. For a month there was nothing. Then the defense orders came trickling in. Then we couldn't keep those tools running fast enough. Finally, two months later, the EV stuff showed up like a flash flood in the Grand Canyon. Insane we were almost bankrupted by his stupidity, then saved by it. For my part, I'm going to try to upgrade my gas furnace to a heat pump before it gets cold.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5h
Christ I wish housing wasn't so fucked in the UK. The odds of my landlord replacing the ancient gas boiler with a heat pump is nil, not when we're still fitting millions of new gas boilers, even to the few new builds that make it through planning ffs. Even if I owned my house a heat pump might not be feasible for various reasons, many of them down to our housing stock just being totally naff in various ways.
Don't get me wrong the Russians love to exaggerate our problems, but the best thing we can do to fuck the Kremlin over is getting the natural gas needle out of our collective arms which we're just not that interested in doing. Sure the grid is decarbonising but the majority of heating is still natural gas, and the grid can't be upgraded to fix this due to our genuine economic self-harm of discretionary planning where bored retirees and self-interested QUANGOs can delay everything to the point of non-viability.
adjectivenoun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 55m
Are photovoltaics an option for you? I can buy a pallet of 32 of them for about $5k and from what I understand, this is despite hefty tariffs. They're approaching impulse buy territory. That said, I'm capable of installing them myself, which is a big part of the cost for most installations.
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 20h
Why is the solution always killing brown people?
moth@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 3h
it's the solution for white people. china has been steaming along at a breakneck pace towards renewable energy for years now. if it wasn't for their production capacity for photovoltaic cells and batteries, there wouldn't be a solar revolution right now.
of course, they also released a ton of oil when the Iran war started picking up, so that wasn't great, but it also maybe saved our asses as well.
https://youtu.be/BkA0bkb6ZO0
galacticbackhoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59m
Or China doing all those things and killing brown people (Uyghurs).
moth@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 42m
while the plight of the Uyghur and other minority groups, and the deeply state-enforced Han supremacist policies are something to criticize China for, it has nothing to do with the recent move towards solar and renewable energy, and is a good example of whataboutism.
also, it's a bit racist to think of the Uyghurs and assume that they must be Arabs or Persians. the Uyghurs are native to central and east Asia, not what Westerners would refer to as the "Middle East", or West Asia/Eastern Africa.
hash@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 19h
Yeah, all the current events making diesel more expensive suck, and will hurt everyone's budget regardless if they drive. But we all know we need to use less diesel, right? We've just found the worst possible way to reduce the world's reliance on diesel.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 18h
That's Market Forces for you.
Making everyone feel the pain all at once in the worst way possible
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18h
Holy fuck.
Can you imagine if this is Trump's deal, all along? Take the fall for being a douche, while waging war on Iran, making oil scarce, forcing us all to rely less on it, saving the planet?
Oh my god someone slap me out of this shit. I need to recenter myself. 🤚🫱😳💨
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 18h
You know, I'm convinced with the right person in his ear, he could be convinced to play that angle.....Pysch! I was just doing this to save the world. Now we're going fully renewable! He just needs to believe that he'll be hailed as a hero.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2h
He’s not that stupid, and he’s also not that smart
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1h
Thank you, I needed that.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3h
Might have been an understandable (albeit crass) geopolitical play if the West was leading in renewables but instead it has pushed low and middle income countries further into China's sphere of influence and also into purchasing more Russian oil.
History will see this as an accelerant in the process of global power shifting from West to East. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, the West has been resting on its laurel's for a bit too long now, so this was likely an inevitable transition.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2h
Idk about Russia, given how much of their infrastructure is being demolished.
But China has competitors in the green energy industry globally. The US just isn't one of them.
ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Hegemonic Shift
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 21h
The "revolution" will not be televized, but it will be in portrait format and wobbly AF, in 30sec snippets. 🥲🤷🏼♂️
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 16h
The revolution will have frequent ad breaks
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 15h
The revolution will be sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 12h
...and Brawndo's temu cousin, from the looks of it.
Frankly, the Revolution© will be the ad breaks. 🤢😢
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 13 pts · 21h
At that point, such a high percentage of people will be seeking wildfire/flood/hurricane/etc. relief that your footage won't even make the first 10 pages of GoFundMe
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social · 5 pts · 20h
and GoFundMe may or may not still be up at that point
ceenote@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 20h
Frankly, I'd prefer this over the more likely scenario: Not all locations are equally susceptible to climate change related disasters. The people who made their wealth wrecking the earth are going to fill those places, and leave the rest of us to survive as best we can in the hurricanes, mudslides, and heatwaves.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 1 pts · 19m
North America and Russia are supposed to see a wild increase to arable land while the global south gets fucked, as usual.
Might be part of why they’re going so hard in the “get em all out and keep em out” schtick
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2h
Back in my day you could just enjoy the terrifying land slides in the moment and didn't need to record it on your phone for social validation.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1h
Was this typed from under turtle mountain?
Jumi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 18h
It is already here, I took pictures of cracked earth and dry riverbeds this summer and I live in fucking Middle Europe.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5h
There was drought in Wales. I know non-UK people might not appreciate how wild this is, so I'll add that Wales is popularly considered the place where they make the rain. Not this year though!
Jumi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
My area is supposed to be humid as well but it has been arid for years now but never as bad as it was this year
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2h
It's incredibly depressing that rich countries (mostly NA, EU, Japan) account for 92% of all CO2 emissions to date, but only suffer 1% of deaths, and about 15% of material damages caused by climate change.
Source: 'Less Is More' by Jason Hickel
reka@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3h
Me looking at my phone: Damn, I'd sure hate to be the guy this meme is talking about!
anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 20h
Can't wait for my beach front property.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1h
🎶 in Ar-iii-zoooon-uh
RockBottom@feddit.org · 6 pts · 19h
Or by the time it arrives in your area you're used to it and don't bother anymore to film it. There's a generation alive now that never knew a normal climate.
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h
"But this climate is normal?"
RockBottom@feddit.org · 2 pts · 10h
It's out of whack.
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
To us who lived in the before times, yeah.
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 5h
And natural disasters still isn't the worst part of climate change already happening
gibson@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 16h
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 21h
I think Ontario has the craziest dichotomy here. You can live right in the middle of the biggest collection of surface freshwater on the planet, and it's the fires that are most likely to get you.
Asetru@feddit.org · 5 pts · 21h
... and then you either move somewhere else and watch the footage from the people you passed or you die.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social · 5 pts · 20h
At least I won't have to worry about dying from it because the cameraman never dies /j
Iammetheone@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 3h
I agree. Look at how many natural disasters have happened recently and what are people doing? Nothing. What are politicians or people who hold power are doing? They are Building more data centre and accelerating more industries that will lead to a faster destruction of this planet.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10h
Nah, I'm gonna move to the other side of the line when it gets close. Climate disasters only happen once in an area ever.
Cnote5@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
The awareness fundraisers after the awards shows and film festivals are gonna be lit.
lena@gregtech.eu · 3 pts · 3h
This seems like an interesting videogame concept
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 26m
Cyclone Chido hit us in december 2024, it felt a bit like the end of days. I think it was comparable to what people near or in the gulf of Mexico experience every few years. Then I saw what hit Nepal not even a month ago (GLOF or glacial lake outburst flood), then the floods in China. These are terrifying. They can't happen where I live but there are other perils : running out of drinking water, more cyclones. We're entering rainy season now.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10h
The global warming will not be televised.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 26m
Social media weirdos being jelous of all the attention tgese dying people get.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 0 pts · 13h
At this point, I welcome the destruction of our world.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10h
Okay Schopenhauer no playing with time machines for you
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 5h
Not for the animals. They had no part in this
Juice@midwest.social · 3 pts · 12h
Its cuffing season for apocalypse cults