Today is the day.
A big day yet the same size as yesterday, all at the same time.
Monday, of all things, and I woke up to a world covered in snow. Snow that has since melted. It's gone.
Weather: You need to make up your mind.
I don't mind snow. It's the temperature that'll drop down to minus forty I have a problem with. Most people on this planet have no idea what that feels like, yet without ever experiencing it, most people on this planet will agree, minus forty sucks.
Most frozen peas don't even know what minus forty feels like.
That's a line I should probably delete later.
I have an unpopular opinion.
Brace yourselves.
A warmer planet would be a welcome change.
I care about the environment and I think it's sad so much of it has to spend months being a frozen wasteland.
In the news, lately, and for my entire life, people have been expressing their concerns about a changing climate. We're given one option. The planet will warm up and we're all going to die.
If you had to choose between warm and cold, you'd choose warm.
I don't enjoy how the media will use fear when describing potential outcomes. How would you feel if I threatened you with minus forty?
The movies show some of the big coastal cities being flooded and destroyed. They don't show the happy Canadians growing bountiful harvests year round all while using fewer resources to keep warm.
Yeah! It would suck if all those people lost the first few floors of their skyscrapers; but what about all those floors above sea level? The people of the future forgot how to swim and use boats?
More water means more fish to eat and maybe enough rain to get rid of the deserts, doesn't it?
People just want to protect our way of life.
Those people are usually the first to perish.
The planet has changed steadily for billions of years. What kind of maniac thinks they can prevent this change?
Where I sit today, there was once ice that was two to four kilometers thick. I'm happy that ice is gone. Whatever is left will continue to melt like it has been doing for thousands of years.
Life is all about balance. A lot of trees lose their leaves when this minus forty stuff rolls around. These plants breathe, just like we do. In winter, they breathe a lot less, and we breathe a lot more.
A lot of life has gone extinct over millions of years. A car breathes. A house breathes. A factory breathes. These creations of ours might not have two feet and a heartbeat but they act much like life, replacing what has died, in a sense. They call it a power plant for a reason, don't they?
Only the moronic would defend the poisoning of our planet. When it comes to producing more of what plants need to survive though, I think it would only be wise to warm the place up a bit and give those plants more room to breathe. Striking a balance after things go all out of whack seems like the only logical and natural conclusion. If that's what the world wants to do, that's what the world wants to do. Preventing the world from being the world is impossible.
The Sahara Desert was once a land full of lakes, grasslands, forests. We didn't turn the place into sand dunes. When that climate was changing, I'm sure those people were worried. Even if they knew the way the planet orbits the sun combined with some tilting action was part of the reason their world dried up, I highly doubt they'd be arrogant enough to think they could stop it from happening.
Those who packed their bags, moved on, and decided to adapt to a world that is in control — they survived. The people staying back to yell at the clouds or blaming society for making the gods angry — they died.
They're so sure of it.
The world is about to end, unless we stop it from ending.
When people know something is coming, they prepare for it.
If those people are so sure about this coming catastrophe, I wonder why they spend so much time yelling about it instead of preparing for it.
I don't want to be part of this crowd that wants to kill an entire forest so they can write about how much they care on a cardboard sign and then prance around town yelling at everyone else.
"I recycled my protest sign and in a few months it'll be the paper I wipe my ass with!"
"Hooray!"
As they distance themselves from this planet with a thin layer of shoes made from petrochemicals.
Be happy oxygen levels aren't on the rise. One spark and they'll all go up in flames, along with everything else.
I can't change the world.
You can't either.
The lesson learned is still valuable. There's nothing wrong with keeping your house clean.
A little more action and a little less overreaction.
I'm not going to tell you how to live. We all act like teenagers anyway. Children even. Don't touch that means touch that.
Maybe we're adults and should know better but this society is still a toddler. Making one huge mistake won't spell the end of everything. People learn from mistakes. Or do they?
Years and years of the same protests and the same message has yet to change anything. Society is doing the thing where people take sides. This usually causes more problems and solves nothing.
I'm not taking sides. It's not up to me to say who's right and who's wrong. I don't want to sit and argue with someone who thinks the world is ending but does nothing to prepare for it. I'm not going to laugh at the guy wearing a loincloth and riding his bicycle to work as the cars zip past either.
Nobody gave anyone a contract guaranteeing the best life ever at birth. We can write as many rules and laws as we want but that won't change the fact there are no rules. The world doesn't care.
Life's a bitch and with our luck, a week after solving these problems, that comet we saw coming from a billion miles away will wipe us all out because we decided producing rocket fuel was a bad thing.
I think it would be far more productive to be one with nature, carry on burning everything in sight, finding ways to balance things out, so Canada can be warm and I don't have deal with that minus forty stuff when it comes. Even if that means I have to live with alligators and palm trees instead of beavers and maple trees...
I'm cool with that.
P.S. All those naturally occurring forest fires up north this year was just the world making room for more Canadians.
Yeah we're all going to die, why do people get so mad when you tell them to die! Or if you wish they were dead? In reality they were/are dead way more than alive anyway? Just wishing them for their true state? lol jk!
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I have no idea, Coin!
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I am from Wawa, northern Ontario, where -40C is quite normal ;-)
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Did not realise you also write provocative topics.
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I like to dabble in all the things.
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That is why most humans live in rather warmer climates, warm is better than cold for most people, but it depends on how warm, this year here we have had 45 degrees constantly - hotter than usual.
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All people depend on a warm climate, unless they eat seals every day. This early snowfall was unexpected and there are still crops in the fields.
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The beach that i like to swim at is still way too cold. Hopefully when my kids grow up it will be warmer for them.
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Just think of all the resources we'd save if we didn't have to heat up so many indoor swimming pools. Plus the natural beach might be closer and people wouldn't have to drive as far.
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Yep. Nail on the head.
Also, hotels will always have vacancy and there will be substantially less competition for good seats at sporting events. TBH, the only bad thing that I can come up with is that sunscreen won't really be optional and Santa Cluase will be a much harder sell for young consumers.
On a related note, I'm heavily invested in sunscreen companies.
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I'm saving up for a one-way ticket to Mars since this place is so doomed.
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exactly!
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Yep I'm all for adapting to whatever's happening AND not poisoning ourselves to death but what do I know :D
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Yup. Wise up and go with the flow.
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Right off the bat, that opening picture got me. So fricken cool. I had to read after seeing that image. Minus 40 sucks yes no if and or butts about it minus forty is cold. The one temperature that even the french canadians and americans can agree on, the only temperature that is the same whether it is Celsius or Fahrenheit, and they need to make those words easier to spell.
I would love to see the redwoods re-populate Alaska, I bet it was just awesome up here then.
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The only time minus forty was cool was when I was kid and they'd cancel school. And yes, minus forty is minus forty wherever you go.
It seems like the north is still recovering from the ice age. Lots of potential there if things warm up.
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Would you rather be put into a freezer that slowly drops to negative 500 over the course of 2 hours, or put into an oven that increases to positive 500 degrees over the course of 2 hours?
ORRR... Would you rather have the top half of your body in the freezer, and the bottom half in the oven?
ORRR be dropped into a hole that is 10 miles deep - every 2 miles it alternates between negative and positive 250 degrees Celsius.
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That sounds like the carnival ride of the future right there. I hope I'm tall enough.
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I'll take the one that goes below absolute zero. Breaking the laws of physics sounds neat and we cannot assume what will happen.
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I like all four seasons, but I don’t mind if we add a few weeks of summer and take away from the winter.
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Even if winter meant two months of snow and -20, I'd be cool with that. Warmer spring and fall. For some strange reason, here it goes from winter almost directly into summer. Then it's the shitty season when it doesn't know what to be, then back to winter.
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Having all four seasons during one day is not fun, let’s instead have proper summer and proper winter, that would be great.
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Yeah, really. Is that too much to ask?
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Lol. This one made my day.
I think it could become a very popular opinion. :-)
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I think it's time to make signs and hit the streets!
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She'll calm down.
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Happy here waiting for the end of the world
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Isn't this exciting!
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As much as my cosmic nihilism allows me. Gotta watch more Rick & Morty
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first off, i dont think the world will end. yet. however climate change has the capability to make natural things like weather a whole lot more uncooperative, which makes for pissy people.
see the thing is, not many people really understand what global climate change entails. its not just the planet getting warmer, altho thats a part. its also weather that sees extremes. more hot days over 90. more days colder than freezing. more storms, more floods, more droughts. if i had to choose between hot and cold, i'd choose cold. perhaps this is genetic. but id rather not have to choose.
you: The planet has changed steadily for billions of years
me: except for the last 75 years or so. see chart
you: more water means more fish to eat and maybe enough rain to get rid of the deserts, doesn't it?
me: seawater absorbs more sunlight than land does, and absorbs green house gases, which heats up the ocean which causes water levels to rise as water expands. rising ocean temperatures will affect marine species and ecosystems. read: less fishies. more desert.
you: a little more action and a little less overreaction.
me: agreed. but action wont come until people agree that there's a problem. we have known about climate change for about 40 years.
but see, not many people wanted to believe it, because they saw a big ass snow storm and said "climate change isnt real". then the government told them climate change was fake news, because its bad for industry, and people wanted to believe that, because then they wouldn't have to pay more taxes.
so some people got louder. carried more signs. that didnt work, because no one wanted to change their habits or pay more money. so now we have this dilemma where if we push for action we get yelled at and made fun of. when we do nothing, people pretend there's not a problem, because no one wants to take responsibility. so how do we resolve that equation?
will things like climate change make canada warmer? yeah. but it will also will make other countries desperate to escape because they wont be able to grow food or escape the giant insects. they will all want to come to canada. then the earth will be lopsided and fall over on its ass and break orbit and go shooting off into outer space, and then aliens will come and eat us.
i dont wanna be eaten by aliens, do you?
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This was satire.
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ya i got that. ;) also, there are many people who wont understand that, because this is the way they actually think. my action is to talk about the misconceptions. im not screaming about the world ending. im not carrying signs or yelling. like you, im just trying to illustrate that all of these stereotypes are ridiculous. see my last paragraph.
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I did see your last paragraph. LOL!
Being Canadian, and living long enough to know, I experience the changing climate. I can actually see it and feel it.
Realistically, and unfortunately, I can't say I trust people enough to be able to solve what could be a problem spiraling out of control. It's always been more people saying do something and less people doing something. There's not much we can do anyway, unfortunately. I do believe nature will sort things out. Humanity needs a good spanking anyway.
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interesting view point, yet i disagree, having taken enough science and ecology classes to know better.
politics is all about trusting people enough to agree to do something. and then agreeing on a solution. right now we cant agree enough on a large scale that there is an issue, because some people are being selfish and illogical. also, governments act in their own interest. no help there.
so the way to address, imho, is to make changes for yourself, and your community. fund the groups who you think have the right idea. stop supporting groups like big business polluters and the government, who are shit talking the actual existence of the issue because they dont want to have to change their nasty habits. and lastly, start organizing into a collective that will take these jerks to court for polluting the air, strip mining public natural resources, selling off public water in tiny plastic bottles for profit.
thats what action looks like to me.
i think there are a lot of things we can do. I dont think nature will sort it out, unless its by killing off humans. not all of us are toddlers.
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That's just people doing people things. The world doesn't care about someone going to court and paying fines.
One trillion dollars will have no effect on that spike shown above.
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Each year I see how much the world has warmed by trying to grow a mango tree on my balcony during the Finnish winter. Everyone loves mangoes.
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Mangoes are pretty good. I don't see why so many people are against mangoes.
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yeah but no on the mangoes, lol in another life invading India for mangoes. What was i thinking, ya ever taste em yuk :)
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Utterly and completely with you on this (the poster prancers are mostly just annoying) I feel the same way about technological advances, we don't have to like them all but it's not stopping it from happening so we should make peace with that. One day we'll be 3D printing our food, lots of people hate that idea, they don't realize most of the stuff they're already eating has been chemically synthesized. How else can those in power feed billions? Preventing starvation us a high motivator of such things.
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I remember it getting that cold a few times when I lived in Canada. My nose spent the entire winter frozen and I learned to be a mouth breather for 6 months of the year.
I don't miss those winters. I'm going to invest in some beach front property on Hudson's Bay and wait for nature to take its course.
I'm not even worried it will be flooded with the rest of the beaches.
I've heard the areas covered by ice are still rising because all that weight is gone. So time has more good news for Canada.
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Everyone will want to be a Canadian!
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