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 ? 😰😰

even 200 years ago it was stupid to build on flood plains and on the edge of rivers. sorry, poorly located homes/buildings need to re repossessed and built in suitable locations with suitable material.
not to say pollution needs to be addressed. poor city planning in most cases.

I'm as worried about climate change as I could possibly be. Watching the entire world react to Covid-19 has been so depressing - Covid-19 is a serious crisis, of course, but it's fleabite in comparison with what we've got coming from climate change.

And the people who say they don't care ... it really would be a very good thing if they did some reading. Not knowing or caring about climate change is like not knowing or caring that the roof of your house is on fire.

Used to worry about it a lot. Made some fairly big life decisions on that basis.

Then I worked for Greenpeace for a while. Now I don’t really worry about it, in the sense that it’s something inevitable we are starting to live through, so worrying isn’t the right response.

In the current day, I do what I can to mitigate and have compassion for those who are and will be worse affected than I am likely to be in my lifetime.

When I was a child we had three or four snowstorms every winter that lasted 4-6 days.
When my children were little we had one snowstorm a year that lasted for 2-3 days.
My grandchildren see snow about once every four years and it lasts for 2 days.
Same location exactly - the same house in fact.
All the peach orchards have been sold and cut down. The weather isn't cold enough. Peaches require 50 straight hours of below freezing weather to produce buds and we don't get that anymore.
I believe!

It’s worrying, but to be honest I barely give it much thought as I think it’s mainly down to governments to act.
Funnily enough I rarely travel abroad, and I don’t own a car (not because of climate change worries, I just can’t afford to)

I barely give it much thought as I think it’s mainly down to governments to act

I think this attitude is a massive problem, actually - not that I'm blaming you for it in any way, msrobot. All governments care about is getting re-elected. They won't act unless the electorate show them that they care. We all have a responsibility to show and tell our politicians that we care.

I am the maximum worried.

I would like climate issues reported in detail everyday in the same way we had never ending updates on Donald blooming Trump. If there was a nightly report on plastic in the oceans, the rainforest being destroyed etc then I think people would start to demand change. I've come to accept people only care about what the media tells them to care about.

But Fall, our city, established nearly 1000 years ago, has no previous history of flooding. This isn't just a case of opportunistic town planning.
And thinking that "it's down to governments to sort it out" is only as true as individuals prepared to campaign and organise, in particular around corporate and business interests, who will then lobby; then governments will pay attention. So there is definitely an opportunity for personal ownership.
And I too would like the climate emergency reported as a daily briefing, just like Covid. We need our eyes on the non-prize...

No I’m not worried about climate change. This happened before in the Bronze Age where it got warmer than even our projections for this current warming are. The warmer planet led directly to the founding of the ancient civilisations that we are the inheritors of.
Sea levels have always risen or fallen. Sicily used to be attached to Italy and Britain and Ireland to France for example. So we should do what our ancestors did and move to higher ground. There’s not enough water to drown all the continents and there will always be fertile land to grow crops.
Pollution is the bigger issue because we cannot live on a poisonous planet. A warmer planet with higher sea levels is nothing new or to br afraid of.

I am worried but after seeing the absolute tantrums shown by some of my neighbours when traffic reduction measures meant their journey to Sainsbury's in a car took them 15 minutes instead of 5 (a journey they couldn't possibly walk of course), I have no hope whatsoever that anything meaningful will be done about it.

I would like climate issues reported in detail everyday in the same way we had never ending updates on Donald blooming Trump. If there was a nightly report on plastic in the oceans, the rainforest being destroyed etc then I think people would start to demand change. I've come to accept people only care about what the media tells them to care about

I totally agree, although I'd put the last thought slightly differently - people only care about what they know about (which of course is mainly down to all the forms of media, mainstream and social). Far too many people are still unaware of the seriousness of the problem. Just look at this thread for proof of that: an incredibly important topic, and so far there are a mere two pages.

I am worried but after seeing the absolute tantrums shown by some of my neighbours when traffic reduction measures meant their journey to Sainsbury's in a car took them 15 minutes instead of 5 (a journey they couldn't possibly walk of course), I have no hope whatsoever that anything meaningful will be done about it

It's possible to cause behaviour change without too much difficulty, at least sometimes. We got rid of most single-use plastic bags in supermarkets very easily, for example.

I am sad rather than worried. Things like images of baby polar bears floating away from their mums because the ice floes are melting. I tend to think that the planet itself will be ok, but wonder what species will go down. Pretty certain that human activity has speeded up a process that would have ultimately happened anyway. We're overpopulated, and I imagine that climate change and disease will wipe us out or reduce our population considerably.
And then it will start again.

But Plan, while I too agree that the planet itself is not essentially threatened by a changing climate, the impact on humanity and a myriad species will be devastating. Moving to higher ground is all well and good, but tell that to the people of Bangladesh whose country is under imminent risk of submersion causing the displacement of millions in the near future. Coastal megacities around the world, homes to many millions, where families just like mine and yours will need to evacuate. Congregate on higher ground? Right...
It's not just getting wetter, it's also getting hotter, and again, huge swathes of land will become uninhabitable on account of temperatures incompatible with human well-being. This tends to be in parts of the world where people are least able to afford managed relocation.
It may be true that there will still be a planet irrespective of what we do, but it'll be uninhabitable for so many of the species which currently call it home.

Very worried! I hate the thought of my DD not experiencing the beautiful beaches I have seen in my lifetime

Yes, though not worried so much as very sad as we've seen this coming in plenty of time to react but haven't nearly enough. A lot of people's lives are going to be pretty fucked, plus a great loss of biodiversity, including species we love.

Yes the climate is always changing but the rate is changing at currently, and will continue to change at, is far greater than we or the ecosystems we depend upon can adjust to. It's no longer if we're fucked but by how much and how quickly. Current carbon zero plans are damage limitation at this point.

Honestly, no I don't worry. I will consider it when I am making decisions about buying this or that or when deciding to do one thing or another and I also consider it an important topic when I come to vote but then I stick it in a box with the other things I can't do much about and file it under things I have no control over.

Zero fucks given.

@CryptoFascist

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

I do have DC and I still don't give a shot

I'm only worried by the policy idiocy that is coming from the modelling such as the one you are quoting.

None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. Ever. And we have been doing this for 50 years.

Mainly it is just a collection of notably wild predictions billed as an exact science - when it is very much not.

For example, I think the world is supposed to be already over according to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006

Yawn, are you not worried
a) because you don't think it's actually happening
b) because you feel you can't influence it in any way
c) because you think it's not going to happen soon enough for you or your children to be impacted significantly
d) because you believe some of humanity will find a way to adapt reasonably well and you feel sure this portion of humanity is likely to include your DC
I am genuinely interested. What do you say to your DC when they ask / talk about it, as they're bound to have come across this information at school / in media?