Is anyone doing anything about global warming?

Nobody cares about global warming. People are too busy worshipping idols and doing shein tiktok hauls.

I'm trying my best to be conscious about my decision that affect the environment but most people don't care, sadly. I guess something really bad would have to happen for some people to change their actions.

Sometimes I hear that there are new EU laws that are supposed to help, but I don't know how much that really helps, in reality.

I don't know man, it doesn't seem like anyone really cares

you tell people to do something and they just want to do the exact opposite most of the time

it is what it is

Some people want to see the change but are too lazy to play a part in the process.

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what new EU laws ?

I'm not referring to anything specific as I'm not following news that closely. But just from time to time I hear that something new is being enforced. For example a few years ago, everyone in my country who was using a coal or wood burning furnace for heat, had to update it to a more eco-friendly device. I personally don't use them, so I don't know the details, but it's just an example.

Edit: another example that comes to my mind is how now all the bottles have caps attached to them, so people don't lose them. This one is actually good, imo, cause it helps with less littering.

we all die in the end no...

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right. but these things are drops in an ocean.

caps in the bottles are nonsense.

95% of stuff in groceries stores is plastic and u can't get away from it.

i horrified myself with how much plastic bottles i go through because i am always drinking juice.

and ive been trying to keep my soda comsuption to at most one cup a day, and hopefully to no soda comsuption in the future. i have to add i have drank maybe 10 plastic water bottles in my life, i am really against plastic bottles in general. even recycled it can't be a good thing to have so many of them. i am drinking tap water from a cup ive had for several years.

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I agree with you, some of those things seem to have little real effect.

I know what you mean, plastic packaging is still the most common here too. Though thankfully we don't have fruit and vegetables packed in plastic, at least. And I've seen some shops that sell loose rice, pasta and groats, and you bring your own reusable bag. Our shops also no longer have one use plastic bags, which was very common in the past.

With bottles, it's very hard. I use glass bottle for water and a thermal bottle for tea, but I know it must be hard for people who are used to buying other drinks in shops.

Another thing that's terrifying is the overconsuptionism and how many things that are produced now are low quality and will be tossed to the landfill. I've heard that even some electronics and machines right now are built a certain way, so that they break after a while and you have to buy a new one. It's truly scary.

Like I said, I don't know what would have to happen for people to actually start actively changing something for the better.

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where i am from those plastic bags are still available, but all the food comes in plastic anywayz. even stuff that looks like paper is plastic.

i used to buy this mint chocolate every week cause it was my favorite but i stopped buying that.

i am gonna try to keep myself to the essentials as much as possible.

collectively we just need to stop buying crap.

whats gonna happen is simply that the world is going to become a more beautiful place.

i don't understand this need humans have to see nature and destroy

ive felt so guilty everytime i had to drive a car that i refuse to own one, why does it seem like i am the only one who seems to feels this way

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I agree with you a lot, I feel the same. I don't have a car by my own choice and I walk everywhere I can or use public transport. But I feel so bad, because my city is so focused on building new roads and becoming more convenient for car drivers. The places that used to be green and allowed people to spend time in nature, are slowly destroyed in favour of new roads or factories and I find it really sad. I live on the outside of the city center so I'm lucky to still be able to enjoy nature, but I worry how much longer.

Yeah, we need to be more mindful of what we're buying. It can really get out of control quickly. So many things that look pretty but aren't really needed. Food is hard, since there's so much plastic but at least we can try limiting it in other areas.

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Or we all just waiting to be engulfed in flames ??

I lower my body temperature

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really , i really don't even know anyone in real life who feels this way too. my family is all car obsessed. albeit we only have one car for 4 people. my mother works about 500 meters away from our house, and she still gets my dad to take her to and from there.

they are building 3 new houses in empty land in my neighbourhood when there are like 7 houses for sale.....

And i took 5 different buses on my day off this month to get to everywhere i wanted to go , one of those places being the library to get a book to read.

its just a tragedy all around

It really is a shame. I think most people and governments don't really think about the environment. The governments especially mostly care about money and power. Don't care about nature but also don't care about common people and what will happen with them in the future.

yes I'm trying to mitigate the downsides by living in a first world country and having greater buying power than the majority of the world's population and having access to resources (both natural and otherwise)

Can we really do something about global warming? Does anyone really think it's possible??
We've been destroying the Earth for many years with innovations and will continue to do so.

So, it's a lost cause.

Unless someone with magical abilities can reverse everything....

No one really cares. USA and China pollute like it’s going out of fashion, oil/coal/gas consumption is still pretty high with less adoption of renewables, nuclear fission is dying and nuclear fusion is long way off, countries rather spend money on killing each other than saving the planet and so on.

Things passed on to individuals like paper straws or recycling bins hardly matter when those actions are massively offset by the above. If a street of residents recycle everything and use as little energy as possible for a year that’s still going to be undone by a local supermarket or shopping centre. McDonald’s giving paper straws doesn’t mean much when they’re using tons of electricity, frying oils, or using plastic cup/lids.

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No one really cares. USA and China pollute like it’s going out of fashion, oil/coal/gas consumption is still pretty high with less adoption of renewables, nuclear fission is dying and nuclear fusion is long way off, countries rather spend money on killing each other than saving the planet and so on.

Things passed on to individuals like paper straws or recycling bins hardly matter when those actions are massively offset by the above. If a street of residents recycle everything and use as little energy as possible for a year that’s still going to be undone by a local supermarket or shopping centre. McDonald’s giving paper straws doesn’t mean much when they’re using tons of electricity, frying oils, or using plastic cup/lids.

China is currently the largest fossil fuel polluter, mainly because of their large population and that a lot of the worlds manufacturing has been offshored and concentrated in China.

In China the share of non-fossil fuel energy consumption has risen to 16.6 percent by 2022 and the Communist party has a goal to reach 20% of primary energy to be non-fossil fuel by 2025. The party is aiming for emissions to peak in 2030 and be completely carbon neutral by 2060.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment the People's Republic of China has an English policy paper on this if you want to look more into this. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment was created specifically to tackle climate change and was spun off of the National Development and Reform Commission a few years ago which is the executive agency that has planning control over the economy of China.

Here is a graph on New Wind and Solar capacity:

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No and i'm not planning on doing anything

The word is disgusting

There's humans out here who trying to justify the genocide that is happening in palestine

Homophobia and racism keep growing in every country

So i don't understand why i should do anything to prevent the world from burning

When most humans deserve to burn and disappear

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I don't think this is an issue that can be fixed on the individual level. Most of pollution is done by large organizations and would need to be tackled on national/international level to really fix.

i don't care what happens to the next generations

i do recycle and stuff though, like just as a don't be a degenerate kind of thing

Can't say anything good about Global Warmest. So I say nothi8ng.

I attempt to be most efficient with resources and waste with the tools available. Allowing Huge CO2 scrubbers, oxygen generators to grow n the Yard(Trees).

2 days ago it was 2ºC and freezing here, with some snowfall. yesterday it was 18ºC at some point in the afternoon. today it's 4ºC again. how is that even possible.

no one really cares about global warming, that's the sad reality. companies only market themselves and take steps to be environmental friendly because they are obliged to do so. not to mention some people firmly deny that global warming is an actual thing .

There are feeble efforts at best.

In truth there are plenty of systems that are operating right now like the Gates foundation carbon capture, alongside more grassroots efforts like ecosia (monetizing searches to fund planting trees).

But in truth, we have extremely poor adoption in regards to good energy sources. (I'm a nuclear proponent myself) Most of the "green energy" is often being ruined by politics and political lobby. (ref: hasty and poor implementation of OC power authority in SoCal, or the complete shut down of nuclear plants in germany movements)

A thing called "tab for a cause" replaces your newtab with their own site that serves ads. you can direct your ad revenue contribution to plant trees or pick out plastic from the seas, among other things.

There are a lot of people doing *something* but rarely agree on what. Choose the ones you support.

Notably: if you garden and bury your clippings extremely deep, it could help "sequester" carbon, with unguaranteed successes.

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There are feeble efforts at best.

In truth there are plenty of systems that are operating right now like the Gates foundation carbon capture, alongside more grassroots efforts like ecosia (monetizing searches to fund planting trees).

But in truth, we have extremely poor adoption in regards to good energy sources. (I'm a nuclear proponent myself) Most of the "green energy" is often being ruined by politics and political lobby. (ref: hasty and poor implementation of OC power authority in SoCal, or the complete shut down of nuclear plants in germany movements)

A thing called "tab for a cause" replaces your newtab with their own site that serves ads. you can direct your ad revenue contribution to plant trees or pick out plastic from the seas, among other things. There are a lot of people doing *something* but rarely agree on what. Choose the ones you support.

Notably: if you garden and bury your clippings extremely deep, it could help "sequester" carbon, with unguaranteed successes.

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Throwing in my personal idiocy(?) into the ring, My pet project is making mini hyperbaric greenhouses for growing herbs but that's a lot of effort for fairly little carbon. it's mostly a thought exercise and some manufactured responsibility so I don't completely laze out.

(schedule 80 clear pvc, end caps on both ends, pressure gauge, pressure relief, and schrader valve glued in. to water, you gotta get another section of clear pvc, put a schrader on one end, put a bike air chuck on the other end, and a screw hole with a plug. load that up with water, connect it to the chamber, and then pump in the pressure from the pump, through the water tank, then to the plant.)

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good luck on surviving then

thanks that's my only chance right?

what else can I as an individual do besides looking out for my own interests and that of my family?

it shouldn't up to us but rather big corporations who contribute the most to climate change, life's too short to worry bout things you can't control

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this is definitely going to be really *out there* but if you got enough cash lying around and fafo time I think you could try this thing:

idk. it seems like it would work, and if you painted some surface with it, it should get cooler and save on cooling bills.

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this is definitely going to be really *out there* but if you got enough cash lying around and fafo time I think you could try this thing:

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idk. it seems like it would work, and if you painted some surface with it, it should get cooler and save on cooling bills.

interesting

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but these organizations make money based off the decisions made on an individual level to purchase something.

organizations don't point a gun to everyone's head to get themselves a car.

atleast where i live most people can't imagine living without one even when they have acess to a reliable alternative. Just because being in a car is more "comfortable".

I'm thinking more of a larger picture, I understand what you're saying but, in my country, you need a car to survive in most places. The cities are not built for walking. There are hardly any sidewalks and there are interstates that cut off neighborhoods from the rest of the city. Not even going to get into how there are many essential services that are not in walking distance especially in rural counties.

My country used to have very walkable cities and the best public transportation in the world, but all that was gutted and removed over the past 100 years because of things like government policy, and profit motive of private institutions.

The systems and structures around people incentivize people to make the choices they do in their individual lives. It's not individuals' fault for being consumeristic in a society that constantly bombards them with ads and is setup in a way to incentivize consumption from the top down.