Simultaneous World Wildfires devastating forests

[New haven america]

Not when the area that's burning is the largest forest in the world that's being purposefully burned down to make room for cattle farming, which produces more carbon, methane, and runoff than most cars could ever hope to do.

Also, Amazon Rainforest destruction is reaching a point where it will be irreversible and will probably lead to the complete destruction of the entire place.

Oh well, we have been on this path since the agricultural revolution.... the best thing to do now is to get off this rock before time runs out... The earth is doomed, face it

Or we could, you know, try fixing it?

Oh wait, that doesn't bring in enough money to satiate the monetary desires of the top 1% and corrupt leaders, never mind.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Oh well, we have been on this path since the agricultural revolution.... the best thing to do now is to get off this rock before time runs out... The earth is doomed, face it

Or we could, you know, try fixing it?

Oh wait, that doesn't bring in enough money to satiate the monetary desires of the top 1% and corrupt leaders, never mind.

You said it yourself, its irreversible lmao.... Stop dwelling on the earth and look to the stars

[Samudera Darussalam]

Not when the area that's burning is the largest forest in the world that's being purposefully burned down to make room for cattle farming, which produces more carbon, methane, and runoff than most cars could ever hope to do.

Also, Amazon Rainforest destruction is reaching a point where it will be irreversible and will probably lead to the complete destruction of the entire place.

Oh well, we have been on this path since the agricultural revolution.... the best thing to do now is to get off this rock before time runs out... The earth is doomed, face it

Even if we manage to get out in time, I'm pretty sure that if the future generations hold the same views as yours, the other 'earth' will face similar fate.

Running away is not the right option. This is the mistake of our generation, of the previous generation, and it's time to fix it. Earth is and will always be the homeland of the human race.

[New haven america]

Or we could, you know, try fixing it?

Oh wait, that doesn't bring in enough money to satiate the monetary desires of the top 1% and corrupt leaders, never mind.

You said it yourself, its irreversible lmao.... Stop dwelling on the earth and look to the stars

I said it was getting there, not that it was there yet.

Also, if we run away then that just means future generations will just destroy other planets instead of learning from their ancestors mistakes.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Oh well, we have been on this path since the agricultural revolution.... the best thing to do now is to get off this rock before time runs out... The earth is doomed, face it

Even if we manage to get out in time, I'm pretty sure that if the future generations hold the same views as yours, the other 'earth' will face similar fate.

Running away is not the right option. This is the mistake of our generation, of the previous generation, and it's time to fix it. Earth is and will always be the homeland of the human race.

Your biggest mistake is implying that I only want one other earth.... I just dont simply believe that problems such as scarcity and consumption will be nearly as much of an issue in the near future as alternative means of energy production and the like are developed... Im not saying we shouldn't develop cleaner tech for the future but rather that we should see the earth as a lost cause in its current state and focus our resources towards exploration and colonization

[Utceforp]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

[Samudera Darussalam]

Even if we manage to get out in time, I'm pretty sure that if the future generations hold the same views as yours, the other 'earth' will face similar fate.

Running away is not the right option. This is the mistake of our generation, of the previous generation, and it's time to fix it. Earth is and will always be the homeland of the human race.

Your biggest mistake is implying that I only want one other earth.... I just dont simply believe that problems such as scarcity and consumption will be nearly as much of an issue in the near future as alternative means of energy production and the like are developed... Im not saying we shouldn't develop cleaner tech for the future but rather that we should see the earth as a lost cause in its current state and focus our resources towards exploration and colonization

The other 'earth' that I imply is just a term to refer to the planet(s) that may be colonized by us in the future.
The damages that we have done to earth may be approaching irreversible, but we have to do something to reverse some of the worse setbacks.

[New haven america]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

If humanity died out and all of the machines we built stop working, would the internet still exist?

[New haven america]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

....I'm worried they'd find my super secret hentai stash.

I'd give it to them without them asking.

[Samudera Darussalam]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

If humanity died out and all of the machines we built stop working, would the internet still exist?

Good question. Unless they manage to bring them back to life of course.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

If humanity died out and all of the machines we built stop working, would the internet still exist?

Artificial Intelligence is right around the corner, soon our machine wont need humans to work

[Kowani]

Whoever's the last to die, can you delete my search history? It'd be embarrassing if the aliens studying our ruins found it.

....I'm worried they'd find my super secret hentai stash.

You should be more worried about other people finding that.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Alright, seems like I derailed the convo so dont mind me as I slowly push it back towards the topic of the fires instead of broad discussions on futurism

[Kowani]

You should be more worried about other people finding that.

You've seen worse.

Almost certainly.

[Greed and Death]

At least that forest is no longer in the way of my gold and oil mining operations in Brazil.

No clue how they all got started.

[Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia]

Deregulating anything ends up causing a huge FUBAR. There is a reason why America is such a fucked up place ever since Ronald Reagan and his crackpot team of Austrian school ancaps privatized nearly every government service there is and eviscerated what little welfare system America had, while giving numerous billion dollars handouts to the military, intelligence agencies, large corporations, and the wealthiest oligarchs. Removing environmental regulation is the best recipe for disaster.

[Costa Fierro]

Well, Siberia’s Fire is due to illegal logging, so I don’t think that’s supposed to happen.

Deliberately lit fires aren't supposed to happen, but taiga forests (which includes Alaska, all of Canada, as well as most of Scandinavia) outside of Siberia all are composed of the kinds of trees that require periodical burning for regeneration and reproduction, among other things. Fires in the taiga are natural and have been occurring there long before human intervention. But they are getting worse because of humans, and the periods where large fires occur are becoming more frequent, rather than the 100-200 year fire cycles in places like Canada for example.

[Costa Fierro]

Here's an interesting map of the fires in South America. I've noticed interesting clumps in Ecuador and far northwest Peru as well, both in areas where dry forests are known to dominate.

I've also noticed a lot of clusters in areas where active deforestation is happening, which shouldn't be surprising, but also a lot of fires in central-eastern Brazil, especially in places with dry forests such as the cerrado, South America's second largest biome after the Amazon and one that is seeing massive clearing and deforestation for farming, population expansion, and charcoal.

[Shamhnan Insir]

The level of ignorance is terrible. We're watching the hand that feeds us burn, quite literally.

[New haven america]

The level of ignorance is terrible. We're watching the hand that feeds us burn, quite literally.

But you see, the richest of the rich and those who want to be rich are gonna make tons of money off of this stuff, and they might one day be oh so generous enough to share a nice, measly portion with us common folk.

How could this ever go wrong?

[Shamhnan Insir]

The level of ignorance is terrible. We're watching the hand that feeds us burn, quite literally.

But you see, the richest of the rich and those who want to be rich are gonna make tons of money off of this stuff, and they might one day be oh so generous enough to share a nice, measly portion with us common folk.

How could this ever go wrong?

Their ignorance goes beyond the issue occurring. They live firmly in the belief that they and theirs will be fine no matter what happens and that's just silliness.

[Auze]

Very much so this is alarming as it will accelerate the upcoming climate change fueled by man.

Yeah, we’re too late already. Might as well get used to warmer weather.

Oh, and Greenland not existing.

That's quitter's talk.

Seriously though, just because there is going to be problems doesn't mean we can't at least try to limit how bad it is, and considering that reforestation is becoming more popular and other means of carbon capture are growing cheaper and easier, it is dangerous to suggest that we might as well give up now.

[Rojava Free State]

Yeah, we’re too late already. Might as well get used to warmer weather.

Oh, and Greenland not existing.

That's quitter's talk.

Seriously though, just because there is going to be problems doesn't mean we can't at least try to limit how bad it is, and considering that reforestation is becoming more popular and other means of carbon capture are growing cheaper and easier, it is dangerous to suggest that we might as well give up now.

While we might be able to do something, I doubt people will, so I've devoted my energy to figuring out how we can survive this global disaster. Humanity will make it through this, but I don't think our modern societies will

[Eighties Republic]

Cattle, actually.

Lol what? So while Bolsonaro is lecturing to us about how you should poop every other day to reduce emissions, he's letting people burn the rainforest for methane producing cattle? What a hypocrite.

Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49304358

Politics should keep a distance from science. What the hellfire does he know?

A sucky thing would be when nobody admits responsibility for what they've done or not.

Say Bolsonaro's term ends. Will he ever take responsibility for the fire? Probably not, just pinning the blame on someone else.
And yes, potential revisionists may go to the snakepits if they please.

You said it yourself, its irreversible lmao.... Stop dwelling on the earth and look to the stars

I said it was getting there, not that it was there yet.

Also, if we run away then that just means future generations will just destroy other planets instead of learning from their ancestors mistakes.

Agreed.

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

What do they plant in the ex-Amazon lands anyway? Rice?

Cattle, actually.

Jesus Christ, really? I thought they'd at least farm something to which other climates aren't suitable so the deforestation wasn't for nothing.

The rest of the world needs a co-ordinated embargo on all Brazilian goods immediately.