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Emergency declared regarding the Great Salt Lake.

I genuinely hope they can save it, and not at the expense of someone else...

That being said, would it be fair to say this is akin to "too big to fail"? Lakes and rivers have dried out before. It happens. (Oceans?) Granted, some of this drying out is thanks to overpopulation. However, human beings who think geographic entities will be there forever are ignorant of nature. That's not how this shit works and why some of us think space exploration is super important, because eventually, Earth will be gone. It will be eaten by the sun no matter how many SUVs we drive.

I ask this mainly because of one of the proposed solutions for Lake Mead drying out. It has proposed to pipeline water from the Great Lakes. First of all, that's fixing the problem at the expense of others. Secondly, it only delays the inevitable. You want to really buy time, then look to the oceans. It's a lot more water whose levels aren't as affected by a regional drought. Third, keep investing in space exploration and colonization. Earth's government and corporations are far too corrupt to be able to fix the issue, so finding more resources is the only viable solution.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:30 pm I genuinely hope they can save it, and not at the expense of someone else...

OTOH, more land!

As much as I abhor video titles like this one has, this is a really good speech. Yeah, there's a couple of mild shots at "woke" (one is pretty funny), but this is really a climate change speech and it's excellent. He makes an infallible argument about why current efforts are doomed to fail.

100% worth watching. (Yes, even for you Gordon.)

I have a feeling that he thought about that speech in advance.

That's pretty cool for them, but I don't believe it.

Let me rephrase that, I don't trust any corporation enough to buy a ridiculously overpriced car and then be comfortable letting it drive itself.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:40 am That's pretty cool for them, but I don't believe it.

Let me rephrase that, I don't trust any corporation enough to buy a ridiculously overpriced car and then be comfortable letting it drive itself.

I always wanted that poster ever since I saw it hanging in Mulder's office.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:55 am I always wanted that poster ever since I saw it hanging in Mulder's office.

Like $6 on Amazon.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:01 am

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:55 am I always wanted that poster ever since I saw it hanging in Mulder's office.

Like $6 on Amazon.

I mean, I don't want it that bad.

AI says we might be doomed sooner than scientists thought.

Of course, let's remember that the ice caps were supposed to have melted already and polar bears already extinct.

Al Gore said point of no return was years ago.

How many "carbon credits" did he sell?

Does anyone actually think through things before they say them?

I mean, you don't KNOW that he's not advocating for killing off humanity.

Fair point, and if he was, I'd be on board with that plan.

We're going to ban paper receipts while continuing to do absolutely fuck all to the corporations who are the actual polluters.

I genuinely don't mind the banning of paper receipts, but fuck am I sick and tired of hearing how we're the problem.

Ban CVS, and that's 80% of receipt paper usage.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that he's holding a CVS receipt.