Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks? - Inside Climate News
Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks? - Inside Climate News
A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.
A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.
Give them a voice? Those scientists have been screaming about it my entire life.
The articles posted in this community are literally the most important things we should all be reading and paying attention to as a species. Where are the subscribers? Why are we shouting into the void here? What can I do to help?
I think I understand how you feel, in the sense I had a similar despair when I first landed in this community. Then I took a look around in this instance and found the slrpnk wiki page. Even just reading it was soothing for me, in a realistic way. If you feel like, take a look at it.
I'm not subscribed but I check the community on my Local feed and read the articles regularly as a slrpnk.net member. This community might be in a unique spot where it is a relatively large community on an instance where many instance members chose this particular instance for content like this, so they access it via the Local feed.
The simple truths are that Lemmy is niche, not everyone listens nor respects nor funds scientists and educators, progress is hard and slow at the best of times, and we’re facing entrenched interests with massive amounts of cash to spend on propaganda.
It’s fine to talk here, but if you don’t want to shout into the void, then try convincing Joe Suburban on Facebook that a carbon tax and rebate isn’t that bad actually, his next vehicle doesn’t need to be an F-3 million 3 gallons per mile edition truck - it can be an EV instead, bike lanes actually give people a safe opportunity to get out of his way when he’s driving in the city, a heat pump can replace his aging furnace and won’t give out in the dead of winter, adding density and mixed use zoning isn’t going to ruin the character of his neighbourhood and won’t tank his property values, and the economy won’t die if we slow down the rate of new resource extraction expansion and if we stop building pipelines.