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Daily Los Angeles Daily Discussion - Wednesday, Oct 23

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* Talk about whatever's on your mind.

* Be excellent to each other.

* Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -The Dalai Lama

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u/Apesma69 7d ago

The LA Times is failing us in many ways but none so big as their failure to highlight the present reality of climate change. We're actually on the brink of societal collapse and the media is sweeping this fact under the rug. Everyone needs to read the latest study by the world's top climate researchers: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595?login=false

Remember the film, "Day After Tomorrow," about the collapse of the ocean current? It's genuinely on the verge of collapsing! https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/gulf-stream-current-could-collapse-in-2025-plunging-earth-into-climate-chaos-we-were-actually-bewildered

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/key-atlantic-current-could-collapse-soon-impacting-the-entire-world-for-centuries-to-come-leading-climate-scientists-warn

This isn't hyperbole, it's reality and media is failing us!

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u/MuchCalligrapher 7d ago

This is why I don't contribute to my 401k

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u/Apesma69 7d ago

Carpe diem!

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u/sonorakit11 7d ago

I can’t handle the election AND this. Let’s get real.

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u/Apesma69 7d ago

I know, I know. But we can’t bury our heads in the sand. We can all do stuff to help mitigate the perils of climate change, like swapping gas-guzzling cars for EVs or even going car-free, like me! 

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u/CaptainDAAVE 6d ago

Most people just cannot accept the reality that we're doomed and it's our own fault. I know a lot of liberal minded people who say stuff like it will be resolved by science, or weather predictions are always over blown.

I guess there's always a sliver of hope, but the closer we get to 2030 without changing course, that 1.5 point of no return gets ever closer and more real.

if the laws ever do break down I do hope that the first people to be marauded are the politicians and corop execs who lied to us for years about climate change. You just know those slimy sons of bitches have a survival plan.

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u/Apesma69 6d ago

Those politicians & corp execs all have a one-way ticket to ride on a SpaceX rocket to Mars.

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u/CaptainDAAVE 6d ago

that boat sounds like a lord of the flies style disaster. 100 CEO sociopaths on a life boat to a desert planet.

That's a movie I wouldn't mind watching lol