Data released from Copernicus, a branch of the European Union Space Programme, shows August was 1.59C warmer than 1850–1900 levels, following a 1.6C increase in July.
There were a couple of hundred thousand years of humans managing not to fuck up the entire planet, before the two centuries of doing so for the sake of money.
Did we, though?
We created a lot of value for the shareholders.
ref. https://economicsociology.org/2014/10/07/yes-the-planet-got-destroyed-but-for-a-beautiful-moment-in-time-we-created-a-lot-of-value-for-shareholders/
Cool thing about Lemmy - you can past images directly from your clipboard!
i know, but i kind of thought that the linked references below the image were interesting too
@Gsicht @Sterile_Technique And “pragmatic” solutions to the climate crisis. Oh wait …!
Compost the rich?
Depends on how you quantify it. We sure did make a lot of money, or at least the winners did.
There were a couple of hundred thousand years of humans managing not to fuck up the entire planet, before the two centuries of doing so for the sake of money.