[NeedMoreTea]

Britain has just approved restarting fracking. Germany wants to demolish ancient forest to mine more lignite for power stations. The US wants to save the coal mining industry. The North West passage is almost ice free in summer. Australia's coal exports are booming.

IPCC thinks it will need 2.5% of global GDP for 20 years to fix.

Act now? It still doesn't seem like any of the world's electable politicians even believe the problem yet. Just in greenwash and talking about GDP growth.

The next generation is fucked.

Edit: That's very disappointing to see. Submission goes from top 5 on front page to nowhere, yet isn't flagged.

[zaarn]

>Germany wants to demolish ancient forest to mine more lignite for power stations.

It isn't Germany, the RWE corporation wants this because in the near future they will loose the ability to mine coal in that area, so they'll happily pay off politicians and raze the forest to get at whatever coal is down there until the time's up.

The easy and most efficient solution to all these problems it to outlaw oil and coal now. It would cause all kinds of auxiliary damage but it would likely be cheaper than continuing down the current path.

[NeedMoreTea]

Good point, though from memory of news reports the energy minister is in favour. I imagine it's far less popular with the public.

In light of this morning's IPCC report I think you are right with the second point. An outright ban may soon cause less auxiliary damage than trying to encourage economies (i.e. ignoring the issue)

[lachlan-sneff]

To mars, luna, and orbital platforms we go!

[cxseven]

There's not going to be anything more hospitable than Earth for a long time, long enough for the warnings here to come true and then some.

[lachlan-sneff]

Doesn't hurt to spread out though.