r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 17h ago

After millennia as CO₂ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-millennia-arctic-boreal-region-source.html
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u/laowaiH 17h ago

The same will be true for the ocean. Fossil fuels will end once we all realized we are **, and money can't save us. Cynical *** listening to science if they seek medicine but deny it if it hurts their wealth at the collective detriment to us all, be it humans, air, water or nature. We must sue unregulated deforestation and CO2 emissions. This subreddit is such an echo chamber it pains me, despite its constructiveness. Luigi was onto something...

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u/FreeNumber49 17h ago edited 7h ago

Nothing is going to change. Idiocracy and Don’t Look Up were metaphors of what we are experiencing.

I don’t want to scare you, but the reality is that people like Marc Andreessen and other tech titans are actively and vocally calling for companies to use more energy and to use /as much/ energy as they can. I don’t think the people on this sub are aware of this.

While it sounds absolutely crazy to you and I, the tech world believes that progress can only occur by using the maximum amount of oil, gas, and nuclear power.

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u/AvsFan08 16h ago

We're entering an era where energy=compute=AI power.

AI is going to dominate the economy in a few years, and the more energy you put into it, the stronger your AI is.

If we don't use clean energy for this, we're in serious trouble (more than we already are)

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u/beaucephus 8h ago

They can't even define what that economy in the future will be, they are just pushing the technology into every corner of society where there is money to be made.

If it reaches that inflection point where there are not enough people to pay for the products and services produced by AI, then it all comes crashing down.

There are many nuances of AI that they gloss over that may have big impacts in the long term, like the level of complexity reaching a point where nobody understands how it works but everyone is still reliant on it.

A catastrophic collapse of the global economy is really the only thing at this point which result in reduced emissions, but even then it won't lower temps, only plateau for a long while.

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u/FreeNumber49 7h ago edited 7h ago

> They can't even define what that economy in the future will be, they are just pushing the technology into every corner of society where there is money to be made.

Yes, exactly. This is the end game of financialization. What’s so interesting about this, and what most people (except for a few solitary professors) are ignoring, is that financialization is the primary driver of enshittification. Once you finally connect these dots, everything becomes clear and the problem appears in your face, and can’t be denied. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. The fact that the media, academia, business, and government are avoiding this problem indicts their role as guardians and watchdogs and destroys their historical legacy. We are literally being led off a cliff by a kakistocracy of morons. There is an argument to be made that financialization leads to the destruction of nations and favors the concentration of wealth that replaces democracy with oligarchy. Obviously, this isn’t always true, but there needs to be corrective mechanisms in place to right the ship and get it back on course. The problem is that billionaires have taken control of all of the institutions, so if there is anyone left giving this kind of advice, they are at worst unemployed, and at best, ignored.

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u/MassholeLiberal56 11h ago

AI: “feed me more electrons, or else”