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Imagine if Jeff Bezos wanted to be a hero instead of just absurdly wealthy. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich (if you don't know, he was the one realized political gridlock would be blamed on the President and started the tradition of Republicans refusing to compromise on ANYTHING while a Democrat was in power) and Trump. Each of them made catastrophic changes to America one at a time that we never recovered from. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
>They're not trying to reverse anything.
Put up or shut up! Show me facts and receipts of this please. Lets go!
>How is that not obvious?
This should be easy for you then. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Tragedy of the commons, my good sir.
10 people are in a deep well with enough food to feed them all a little bit. If they each take a small bite, ration it, they could maybe work together to get out. But one of them says, "if i eat all of it that will give me enough strength to climb my way out for sure." They all look at each other and then descend on the food, pushing and shoving, each person trying to eat as much as possible. None of them eat enough to make it out alone, having expended all their energy fighting over the amount they had, and too many didn't eat enough to stay strong enough to help as a group. So, they all died. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Nobody seems to ever consider that part of why this is so often reported on even by corporate media is because it is easier to control people who don't feel they have a future. No, I am not denying climate change. It isn't the same difference. What I'm saying is that nothing will ever get better if the working class doesn't grab the power they have and make what they can better, even if all it could mean in the end is making the people who did this pay dearly.
In other words, the doom circle jerk your refer to is in the interest of power at this point and folks don't realize they're being played even if the worst predictions of climate change are true. It is always in one's power to take what they have and work with it to shape a better future for themselves and their communities. The death of the belief in community and collective action is what has gotten us here, staring into screens cheering on the end of the world and the end of all hope. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
While a lot of life died shortly after impact during the K-T extinction, it spanned another 40k years. We still have plenty of species that survived the event alive today. 30% of life continued on after the event so while it was dramatic, nothing is more dramatic than what humans are doing today. This will go down has the quickest extinction event in Earth's history if we keep up.
The background extinction rate right now is over 1,000x faster than normal, with the potential to shoot upwards of 10,000x in the decades to come. Unheard of, even for the K-T boundary extinction event. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Climate change is just a way to make money off the working people. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
You realize there are other countries on this earth right? Do you think the US is the sole contributor to this headline? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Oh. I know nothing about any of this, the link you provided definitely says animal populations are declining days a dangerous pace, just that the way the percentages are determined is odd and sometimes difficult to understand.
Be well. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Do you mean I don't feel sorry for the children being created just to suffer climate issues they didn't create? Or are you saying I will be having children of my own even with the knowledge I have about how much worse the near future is going to be? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
You still haven’t given an example of something that *is* significant as opposed to trivial. You also haven’t made any argument as to why being stressed about something makes you more efficient at addressing it.
Are stressed out parents better at raising children? Do you perform better at your job when your stressed? I would argue people are already immensely stressed out over struggling financially and emotionally. Perhaps if people were *less* stressed they would have the mental clarity to address issues in a more effective manner, as opposed to being consumed by the stressors of daily life. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Not true. Conservatives used to be environmental conservatives also. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Even worse -- we've been aware of it for 126 years and counting.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4314542 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
China also produces almost 80% of all carbon emissions lol. Doesn't matter how much green energy there is with all the shit they pump out too. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Yeah obviously 99% of species driven to extinction besides a few extremophiles isn't a great outcome. But still, how funny would it be if some worms got the "top of the foodchain" title by default? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
That is understandable. People interpret things differently and make incorrect calculations.
Thanks, and you be well too. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It probably shouldn't, if we are being honest. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Yeah I learned that in the comments, explained below but fixed . | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
>Captain Planet came out in the 90s and was not seen as a political agenda.
This is just wrong.
There was absolutely conservatives saying Captain Planet was brainwashing children and making them more liberal. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
...what? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Global warming will likely increase the amount of plant life on earth overall.
It’s really irrelevant though you could plant a new forest the size of China and you would only sequester like 15% of human emissions.
We burn millions of years of accumulated biomass. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
think its worth pointing out that the Mayans still exist as a people. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
What if aliens are already here, infiltrated the decision making positions in government and corporations and are intentionally causing climate change so that the earths atmosphere heats up to their desired temperature range. Seeding all this technology in order to create the greenhouse effect and pacify humans by getting them addicted to technology, junk food and entertainment so they are all nice juicy fat Wagyu style food for the cold blooded carnivorous Venusian's. We were just cattle all along, being farmed for consumption.
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The XCom sequel nobody asked for.
(anyone ever noticed Elon Musk changed Twitter to X.COM; XCOM was a 1990's videogame about aliens invading earth from Mars) | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Im not the guy with the scientist friends. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
You can't possibly be this dumb can you? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It'd spare billions of animals being bred each year to subjugation misery and slaughter. Nearly all animal life on the planet should be cheering for nuclear armageddon. Maybe if humans were to wipe themselves out nature would get it right with smart biped 2.0? If you're reading this and buy animal ag products you're part of the problem. Please stop. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Jokes on them, we already fucked ours up so bad it's too polluted to use. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Every once in a while you hear those nuts talking about the lizard people... Part of me wonders on the outside chance are we just teraforming a more ideal world for a different species. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
So, they'll teach us to stop growing exponentially and also how to acquire food in a healthy, sustainable way? At least that's what I'm doing with my mouse problem. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
There’s articles from the 1850s about global warming and how we need to get a handle on it before it’s to late. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
The thing about plants absorbing Co2, is that over the course of their lives, they are actually carbon neutral.
They release the exact amount of carbon when they die, that they collected over their lives.
So they aren't even a carbon sink while they are alive. More like a carbon loan. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
space is supposed to smell kind of burnt, so its possible some of that would transfer over if you could scoop up ethanol pure enough to drink without filtering it first.
might actually have trillions of gallons of smokey space whisky just sitting out there waiting for us. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
>“Because I’m one of the idiots that live on it!”
Not for long! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Reminder that after his presidency, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn were watching TV and there was one of those longform ads about guinea worm ripping through Africa and asking for donations. Jimmy and Rosalynn that moment set out to eradicate the disease... and they fucking did it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
You are correct, mostly poisonous but some drinkable. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Global warming has only really been in the public consciousness since the 90s. Prior to that it was only really known to scientists and oil execs | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It's terrifying. What worse even if everyone got their shit together reversing this heat will take decade upon decades for that CO2 to dissipate and all the morons will be see it didn't work. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Bo Burnham. The song is called "That Funny Feeling" and you can find it on YouTube. For context, it's a part of a Netflix special which he made while in Covid lockdown. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I imagine in 40 years people will be saying that about both Raegan and Trump. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It's very, very possible that we will no longer be able to produce enough food or have enough access to water to sustain a major portion of humanity.
Like, talking billions of human beings.
And of course the have-nots in that scenario aren't going to lie down and say "welp, guess I'll just die then!".
The less capable will likely simply crowd en masse into more temperate regions.
The more capable will try and take resources by violence for themselves. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It's a large chunk of western north America but I'm sure results may vary. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
The West's dependency on China's coal-powered production for cheap products, combined with the digitization of everything, including money and Bitcoin, which by itself uses as much electricity as the entire country of Serbia and mostly runs on oil and coal, highlights significant environmental and energy concerns. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Lol, that sounds like you just got "old" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
more like 5% | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
In 2000 years humanity is going to see space resorts in the ethanol cloud. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
If the levels are constantly increasing then every second they are “beyond anything humans ever experienced”. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
They do one thing well: transport a single person for a low energy cost.
They are inefficient on time. They don’t provide shelter, cargo space pr weight capacity. They lack safety features including the many pedestrian safety features of modern cars. They are inaccessible to the very young, very old, infirm. They are poor choice after a day of hard labor or physical activity.
It’s raining? No bicycle. Injure your leg? No bicycle. Exhausted or ill? No bicycle. They would be a major step backwards in transportation. Modern cities cannot be built around the bicycle. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
> The aliens would probably turn earth into a garden, full of ‘rare’ specimens.
They probably already have. Who's to say that we aren't just an experiment or terrarium for forth dimensional entities? A three dimensional biological experiment in a 4th dimensional science lab. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Thank you for that.
Having grown up in the age of Global Warming, which then became Climate Change, I have read all the predictions going back decade after decade. They were all correct. We are literally the toads slowly boiling in our own waste. We have always known it and the models for the all the various impacts have been accurate. Read what the scientists say we will experience in the next decade and plan to experience it in the next five years. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Yeah, but think of how much bitcoin we are mining | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
i give up on trying to care | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I can see why you're contesting my (general) statement. Lets take the example you mention: power. Big corp pays a fraction for electric power (and a a fraction of the taxes emposed on it) compared to the end-user, you and me. And that's okay, they provide employment for all of us and need to make a profit. Now, for 25+ years I've been hearing about how the power grid will not be able to cope with demand in 'the future', even before privatization of the grids and the power companies themselves.
The came privatization. The 'market' would regulate itself and we would all benefit in the end. Did we? The power grid is worse than ever. The governments pushed us towards solar, and we all folowed because we benefited financially from it (and not to save the planet save the few good hearts out there).
Now, the grid is STILL collapsing. The surge in solar power peaking at daytime only adding to net-congestion even further. What have the companies done to correct this? Nothing. They just paid dividend to the shareholders and made sure they have a healthy bank account. Grow and absorb, become bigger and more powerful than ever.
Over here they have now started to impose fees onto people who have solar panels because 'the grid is in danger of collapsing', and make them pay higher kWh proces on top. Over 253v? Your inverter shuts down.
Did all this hurt profits for the power companies? No, they make record-profits. Again, as always, we, the end-user have to cough up for teir oversight / neglect. And we will pay for the declining grid, no one else.
And don't get me started on governments, who got us in to this mess. Yes, Nuclear has been the answer all along. Clean, safe, (relatively) cheap).
But the masses are not capable to stop and think, look ahead, they want to do 'the right thing' and oppose nuclear power beacause the bees are declining. The sole thing that could have decreased CO2 emissions, our number one enemy at this time, quickly and efficiently without hiking power prices, we opposed it. And politics followed suit because electorate, no vision in sight.
I think you can compose a story like this on almost any sector. Now I think I understand capitalism a bit, and I understand it has te keep maintaining itself in a price / wage spiral. But I believe we are nearing the end of that cycle. The rich are getting too rich, and the poor are getting even poorer. Unsustainable.
This whole energy transition-circus is a big charade.
I don't have a solution. I think it's too far gone. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Thanks we fucking know. Do something about it | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
The whole aim for being carbon neutral in some countries is merely to export the carbon for manufacturing to somewhere like India, China or South East Asia where they literally don't give a F.
I've been to many of these places. They'll just bang it out for money. They seriously do not care. You're not net zero. You just moved it somewhere else and now you have to import it.
Slow hand clap. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
What dd your grandmother and mother have for birth control options? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
As much as I've seen about 2025, it's still not making nearly enough noise for what it very clearly states. It's honestly a little terrifying to read something that's so objectively bad, and realizing it's note an unlikely outcome. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
What were their birth control options? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Zero evidence that a significant reduction in human activity would have a positive effect on climate change? Have we already forgotten the pandemic? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
We know! We all fucking know this, but are any of us gonna give up our petrochem lifestyles? Huh anybody?? I thought so | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
> The thing people miss about Inside is that he created it in the depths of depression.
No. He was fine. He's got his stuff like we all do, but he didn't create Inside because he was depressed. He's just an artist, tapping into and describing human experience in novel ways, like any artist does.
If you thought his depiction of the human experience was particularly poignant with regards to the reasonable existential dread available to anyone paying attention to our environment since the 1970s, then congratulations; you appreciate the unprecedented danger we all face. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I hadn’t thought of it that way. Damnit | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
> forcing
Nope, ain't no-one forcing them to make more profit
And if people literally don't buy the product at all in its more expensive form, the product clearly shouldn't exist | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
This a 100%. People act like they aren't the ones buying from those huge coporations thereby raising the demand for even more production. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Pretty much every big problem that they try to blame on the individual is a giant corporation's fault. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Nobody is going to do anything, because the economic consequences are apparently worse than having an uninhabitable planet.
In all seriousness though - this is what most economists are predicting. The cost of achieving our climate targets are so high most economies are giving up on them, and it’s partly because some economic powerhouses refuse refusing to meet them in the first place so others don’t want to be disadvantaged. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Thank goodness we have news and officials saying the same thing over and over again. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
We cannot afford to keep sleeping in this. The US cannot afford another President who refuses to act on this and neither Biden, nor Trump are going to do anything about it.
We have to revolt NOW! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Yeah and their problems are.... economic.
Our current system is set up so we have to grow our population so shareholders can grow their quarterly profits.
You are part of the problem buying into this system and actually defending it. We need to lower the population and develop a better financial system that doesn't rely solely on greed. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Name me a point in history where mankind has selectively contaminated deaths of acres of land and water to where their land has begun thee process of becoming sterile? Ancient war does not count and do not say people shitting, every where they knew where to keep shit away, including most of Europe. Capitalism is a yt system for yt people who have been the hegemony since the late 16th century since the centuries of immediate development created by the colonization of the Americas. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
We all hate capitalism, imperialism, and corporate globalism except for a few hundred people at the very top. And yet we don't....make it stop. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
reading some of these comments, you'd think hyperbole was the solution to everything | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Virtually none of what makes up fossil fuels is dinosaurs. While I guess probably a few molecules of dinosaur have ended up in your fuel tank over your life, it's basically all phytoplankton and other plants. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Yes and no. Most parents who put babies up for adoption just need money, they love the kids more than the sun but worry about affording food and medical care. Although with Roe vs Wade being killed that number may rise, even then it is rarely easy for a biomom to place her baby. Those kids may need a home but they aren't unloved.
If you have the will to do it, being a foster parents open to caring for older kids or sibling groups you'll be able to give a lot of love to kids who are scared and confused. If you're in the US bioparents get a lot of chances to fix things. I don't know if I would be able to, my heart would break if they left me to a bioparents who might not be ready, but if you are [Laura](https://www.youtube.com/@foster.parenting) offers a lot of tips and insight. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Spot on 👏👏
Please add that global militaries account for at least 5.5% of carbon emissions. If they’re going to scream about climate change then they sure as hell better cut down on conflict. Can we have peace for a cleaner planet? Or does it count only when it helps push their agenda? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
It's not somehow, names can be named | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Good news! A“I” and cryptononsense can eat all of that power and more! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
>we've known better about climate change since the 70s and earlier
Maybe, but you didn't. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
By 2026 half of USA's coal fired powerplants will be shut down.
Meanwhile, Communist China builds **three** coal fired powerplants **per week**. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Wow I dont care all of this is out of my control. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Nah, at this point we've developed renewables to such a point that it's more economical to build renewables and batteries than fossil fuels and transition becomes an economic advantage. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
>If there is any chance for us to overcome this problem, the solution has to come naturally!
So we can make the problem, but we can't even try to fix it?
> Whenever governments try and force behavior or straight up ban things, it only gets worse!
False | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Your delusions are part of the problem | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
The difference between production and consumption based emissions isn't all that large. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Hmm yes I will die in 10 years why thank you | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I tend to agree, but we've pretty much domesticated ourselves. It will be a pretty painful and humbling transition back to the stone age. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I got to ride around in cars like the El Camino that just smelled powerful. There is nothing like an old vehicle. They smelled of oil and half burned gas. Then I got to play with all the plastic figurines and toys a boy could want. Star Wars, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Robotec, etc. Life has been good and I might have another 20 or 30 years left in me. I'm glad we got that experience. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
At least know how to solve the Fermi paradox. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
More CO2 is not automatically better for plants. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I buy dry rice, beans and lentils every time I get groceries and throw them into storage. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
The US has had declining emissions since 2005 and last year saw US emissions drop by 2%. We've been curbing emissions for quite a while. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
We’re just playing generational hot potato with the environment and hopping we’re not the ones that pop the Earth Balloon. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I grew up in the 90's and felt the same way. It's been sobering how fast the change is happening. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Not ruminating about existential issues doesn't mean ignoring them, you can still acknowledge the problems and even work to solve them, just without ruining your mental health in the process. Rumination is usually not very productive or useful. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
lol it's not gonna effect us like that | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
There's your evidence on climate change.
Referring to a previous article posted. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I think you have it wrong. As long as you don't make it clear that "we're fucked" people will not care because it's not important.
Your suggestions have been tried for the last 50 years and they do not work. All we got from it was an increase in CO2 emissions. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
We knew it was coming since the 60’s. I find it interesting that the human species still chose our demise. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Everything is going to get messed up, yes | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
Doesn't matter anymore. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
I'm sure they can find something equivalent to gold in value inside our planet, let's say that "gold" is figurative and it represents a valuable resource X | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-07-06 |
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