• Global food collapse looms amid heat and water stress, warns new study

• Most states continue to funnel money toward highway expansion, locking in climate pollution, despite new tools to fund green infrastructure

• With Antarctica’s climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea beneath

• ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

• Illinois carbon capture project captures almost no carbon

• Soil degradation threatens food supply and scientists are calling for action

• As saltwater flows up the Mississippi River for a third year, the region looks for permanent solutions

• Europe’s conifer trees severely impacted by climate change; urgent action needed

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.
   
Previously

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Preventing, or even slowing, climate change (happening) and ecological collapse (close to the point of no return today) won’t happen without massive depopulation. Massive depopulation comes with economic and societal collapse.

    I’ve watched the world population go from 3.76 billion when I was born, to 8.03 today. That should scare the living shit out of us. If we could magically dial it in to 2 kids per 2 adults, we’d have a nice, slow slide back. (If it isn’t obvious, some kids will die without reproducing.)

    All economic systems depend on growth. Yes, line must go up. The same people that say the economy is all gambling and impossible to predict, too complex, are the same people who think their economic ideas can be planned to maintain a steady state. Weird.

    tl;dr: Thomas Malthus was right.

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    I never noticed before, but my internal monolog mispronounced “reining” as “re-ining”, and it makes the meaning much more literal and I like that, also makes “re-ining in” seem redundant

    Edit: Doing some light double checking, they do not seem to be fundamentally related

    Rein traces back to PIE as *ten: relating to stretching/holding And in traces back to PIE as *en: still meaning in/into/around