How worried are you about climate change

[Lardlizard]

Just been watching something on outline that says in 100 years the sea level will rise at least 1m

Do you think that’s true it will rise that much ? 😰😰

Yeah, I believe it but i give it almost zero thought tbh.

Very. It's going to get so much worse.
I'm really making the extra effort to crack down on the dc's eating meat and swopping to more veggie and vegan meals. It's bloody hard but for the sake of their futures it needs to be done.
I walk a lot and don't get the car out often. Never fly.

I spy no attention to it. Earth has experienced so far at least 5 ice ages and it is constantly changing.

I think we need even more cycle paths and encourage the use of e scooters and e bikes on the cycle paths
Strive to get e cars as standard ASAP

Nicky do you think there’s going to be another ice age ?

But electricity comes from coal and gas, e cars will still be powered by burning fossil fuels.

But can’t we get it form wind and water and solar

Our council recently consulted about how we can reduce the town's carbon emissions. I really went to town about cycle paths and better footpaths. And got in a good moan about people killing biodiversity by astro turfing their gardens.

I wonder when sandbanks in Poole could end up underwater and Venice 😰😰

You’d have to completely change just about every aspect of what would call “modern living”. And there will also have to be huge advances in technology especially around battery and electric cell development. Plus there would have to be some control on population growth. I’m not sure if that is all possible but at 42 years old working in the NHS in an ICU unit during a pandemic I’ll worry about it another day.

Yes it is worrying!

On electricity, most UK electricity comes from renewables. Very little is generated from coal, and the few remaining coal power stations must close by 2024. The cheapest way to produce electricity in the UK is wind, so there is lots of investment (government and private) in expansion.

I’m not. I really couldn’t give a shit.

@Lardlizard

Nicky do you think there’s going to be another ice age ?

We’re still in an ice age.

I have been slow to properly grasp the urgency but David Attenborough’s latest programmes are very clear. We’ve gone plant based but not doing enough.

I know that climate collapse is going to kill our children and grandchildren within a 100 years.

I don't worry about things I can't control. 🤷‍♀️

I tell everyone I know that they shouldn't fly (I want the entire travel industry to collapse) and that they should use public transport as much as they can, eat as little meat as they can.

People who say things like "I really couldn't give a shit" obviously don't have children.

@CryptoFascist

People who say things like "I really couldn't give a shit" obviously don't have children.

I have a child. I still don’t give a shit.

Emily are we ? I didn’t know that

I want the entire travel industry to collapse)

Laurie - so no one can ever go abroad?

@emilyfrost do you really not care about the effect in your children? Fucking hell. Poor kids.

@Lardlizard

Emily are we ? I didn’t know that

Yep.

Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation, known in popular terminology as the Ice Age.[1]

Not a jot.

An ice age is when part of the planet is frozen all year round, so yes we are technically in one. That doesn't stop climate change from being very real and very concerning.

So much I have yet to learn
Had a terrible education really

Very worried. Like you Laurie, I really worry for my DC. And feel awful for families in other parts of the world where the impact of climate breakdown is already forcing people into poverty and displacement. They're generally the people who have contributed least to carbon emissions and benefited least from the kinds of infrastructure that depend on large scale use of fossil fuels.
Here, our neighbourhood looks set to be under water at some point during the second half of the century, and our local authority's long term strategic environmental measures don't go anywhere near far enough to ensure we are protected. People around here know it, but feel powerless to challenge the LA. Cynical.
My childhood village, not far from the arctic circle, has gone from snow so deep between October and April every year that it would cover me from head to toe (standing up!), and my brothers earning a bomb from shovelling snow off people's roofs through the winter, to a powdery smattering of first snow in January, barely covering the ground, and disappearing within days. A few summer's ago, uncharacteristic hot and dry weather caused forest fires to tear through the huge forests in the north, ravaging homes, farms and forestry.
Yep, I am worried.