'the age of extinction is supported by theguardian.org'
bonus:
Eric Schmidt recently said "we can't solve climate change so we might as well go all in on AI". since we can't prevent Eric Schmidt's eventual death shouldn't he be guillotined immediately?
I forgot who, but it reminds me of that Fox News chud who said “eh, us humans had a good run! Let’s pollute the crap out of the world and go extinct! YOLO!”
MFW Libertarianism (and pretty much all of right-wing ideology) is unironically just the Voluntary Human Extinction movement.
They’re not even protecting porky, they just unironically want us all to go extinct because they’re too lazy to clean up the mess they’ve made.
What I hate so much about this is that even if the AI could solve the problem, it would just offer advice that has already been ignored for decades and would be ignored again. These people have wilfully destroyed the planet so that they can live like emperors. I dearly hope that there is some sort of cosmic retribution after death.
I thought this was well known by scientists, that with rising temperatures the effectiveness of the carbon cycle drops. Besides, wasn't it ocean phytoplankton the largest carbon sink, way more than forests?
Yeah but it’s concerning when plants who reliably use CO2 in a necessary function stop using carbon dioxide at the same level as before. Chloroplasts use the Calvin cycle and you can just look at an image and realize that carbon dioxide is vital to its reduction. So when this stops becoming effective this is the most likely result.
It's not "plants are no longer photosynthesizing," it's "the sources of emissions have caught up to sinks," largely thanks to changes in pest activity, soil respiration, and wildfires.
The ocean in general is by far the largest carbon (and heat) sink. Some of that is from photosynthesis--about 70% of all the photosynthesis on the planet happens in the ocean --and some of it is just brute absorption of CO2. That system is showing signs of flagging also, as increased temperatures reduce water's ability to hold CO2 and disruptions to thermohaline circulation hamper oceanic photosynthesis, but it was really land-based sinks that dramatically failed this year (partially because of all the wildfires).
so let's burn the basket a bit faster and yeet one of the eggs against a brick wall
Comrade this is not "a little" doomerism lol. This is full on defeatism and opportunist capitulationism. no choice has "already been made" because that's not how history works. You're just making that choice for yourself only by capitulating to this 4-chan-fukuyama 'closed-case' fantasy, and trying to push others along into joining your capitulation in embracing this fantasy. Masses of people are in the struggle organizing every day, and have been and will increasingly be. The sharpening of these crises are all revolutionary moments in the making in so many ways; and those who want to call themselves communists must engage in the tasks set for us by the development of material reality as it is, to help lead the masses, the most revolutionary sections of which have no choice but to fight, into making it what it can be; without idle wishing it was different than it is; and certainly not telling everyone such defeatism and opportunism as saying to everybody "it's all over" (WHEN IT IS NOT).
The working class in the land of Russian empire and regional Eurasia wished there weren't catastrophic famines and mass slaughter in the 1910s straight through the early 1920s. But the communists weren't moping 'oh it's hopeless it's over the writing is already on the wall pack it up' --- They didn't embrace despair and reinforce the hopelessness of the backwards masses, they acted as the most advanced segment of the working class, motivated them and led them into acting in material reality, shaking them from their hopeless dreams into the material tasks before them. They engaged with material reality as it was, and from this unfathomable horror built and led the first successful socialist revolution in history and secured it for all that followed from it.
Honestly this com is among the worst cess pool of defeatism and opportunism on HB every time it appears in my feed. Genuinely feel it is a pure negative in what it encourages and what I see. Its generative outlook and conversation is effectively and strictly-in-practice reactionary; with the only thing not jokey shitposts (which can be found in other coms with less baggage) is everyone collectively dragging each other down and reinforcing each others 4-chan level nihilism without any constructive or positive assertions unless I come by to make one. Someone posted about loss of wildlife and among a couple shitpost jokes which are all well and good, and an ocean of directionless despair and panic, the only positive assertion (not as in "happy" but as in the only thing with a practicable suggestion and perspective --- not an active black hole of a comment devouring perspective an willpower from people) was me remarking "killing your lawn if you have one and generally planting native plants wherever you can is a simple cheap way (free if you can get to an unkempt or wild area and have researched your ecosystem to collect some seeds, but no more than 15% from a plant so they can locally disperse) to help the bottom of the food chain for the critters which evolved for specific plants (which is most of them); which requires very little if any maintenance, connects you to the ecosphere, and is very therapeutic, and you can give seeds to your neighbors and friends and coworkers to organize to do the same!" Everything else was 4-chan nihilism and panicking. Which serves nothing and no one. It serves reaction more than anything or anyone else. HB has a problem with a few trends like this, encouraging petty bourgeois hand-sitting and defeatism in different ways.
In the abstract one can think of such a phase. In practice, however, he who denies the sharp tasks of to-day in the name of dreams about soft [or otherwise] tasks of the future becomes an opportunist. Theoretically it means to fail to base oneself on the developments now going on in real life, to detach oneself from them in the name of dreams.
in assessing a given situation, a Marxist must proceed not from what is possible, but from what is real.
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they are surrendering power to the bourgeoisie—a fact which does not in the least contravene the theory of Marxism, for we have always known and repeatedly pointed out that the bourgeoisie maintains itself in power not only by force but,also by virtue of the lack of class-consciousness and organisation, the routinism and downtrodden state of the masses.In view of this present-day reality, it is simply ridiculous to turn one’s back on the fact and talk about “possibilities”.
: “hyuck hyuck! But carbon is good for plants!”
