Climate change, and how we’re doing fuck all about it.
There are news stories about wildfires, droughts, water shortages, hurricanes, changing weather patterns, etc. But the climate change part is usually mentioned as an “oh by the way” and it’s rarely tied to stuff we need to do.
Depending how far we push it, climate change is either “just” going to cause mass starvation and novel weather patterns; or it’s going to make the Earth uninhabitable for humans.
Either way is fucking bad.
There’s virtually no mainstream news coverage of what we need to do. People say to buy EVs, but that’s not enough. We need to either radically limit the amount of energy we consume, or dramatically change how we generate energy. Probably both.
But there’s no coverage. Just tRuMp HaTeS wInDmIlLs.
Housing crisis. In our country, it’s being framed as an immigrant problem, but it is both a political choice and political inaction that is the culprit.
Also, big inflation…
Not to mention out-and-out corruption. The scumbags collecting money off of it just give it to their family and buddies while not a drop “trickles down” to the ones who need it. This is most glaring in California, but I’m not some MAGA retard. Corruption is spread through all of government.
Australia has a lot of privatised utilities and they should be publicly owned. All privitisation does is increase the cost for consumers, worsen the quality of service and enrich corporate owners. Public transport, electricity supply, water supply, gas supply, internet providing, education and much more. All of these things rely heavily on public funding, yet in Australia we seem content with allowing private companies to profit from degrading them.
Hard to say it’s not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.
But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can’t happen overnight.
“uncontroversial”
I don’t think you know us very well, do you?
(that’s purely Bugs Bunny sarcasm there)
Right! Emphasis, however sadly, on ‘should be’.
The worst is that a lot of professions will use metric even in the US. So you spend your childhood learning this fucking crazy imperial and go to become a doctor and have to relearn a lot of metric stuff
Going to university for engineering showed me the light and has blessed me with an everlasting appreciation for the number 10.
I have received complaints over sharing weather screenshots in Celsius and I just chuckle.
Aviation is very heavy on the imperial system. It’s taught to future airplane mechs and pilots, and that’s a pretty large industry.
Interesting, I never knew. Is that the case for aviation industry in other parts of the world too?
How covid didn’t really disapear and airbornes diseases are still there.
I have a respiratory disease and I feel alone wearing my mask in public transist or struggling to remind people around me to vaccinate ( wich seems to fall on deaf ears ).
Things were different during the pandemic because there was a real risk of vastly overwhelming the healthcare system. Airborne diseases never went away, but the difference is that if you catch one now, you can get treated - which wasn’t always the case back then. That’s why we urged people to wear masks and get vaccinated; that we all wouldn’t get sick at the same time.
Thing aren’t that much different now, WHO and other org are still trying ( and sadly failling ) to get stuff done to prepare for the next pandemic ( Look at the US for example ). Not everyone can get treated, If someone vulnerable like an elderly person or someone like me catches the new covid variant there is little to no hope of recovery. Even if you perfecly recover covid can leave damaged lung and nerves. And even if treament can be done without consequences, medicine as always warned to prevent rather than treat.
I don’t ask for much, put a mask when going in crowded area and vaccinate at least once every six month.
Lemmy mod log is authoritarian shit that does not say who took actions. It is cowardly garbage that should absolutely be the lynch pin for this place unless transparency is restored immediately.
Instance admins can see which mod did what, and set the modlog to be visible. You just need to find a open instance and look at the modlog from there
That we are no longer in a democracy and have left it in the past.
Enjoy everybody.
Very USA-Centric of you, there are still functional democracies around the world.
Lol take it as you will.
I think a huge issue online is just how incredibly mean people can be to each other - and the fact that they don’t even see themselves as mean. They’ve built a story around how their behavior is justified, so they keep doing it, completely oblivious to the fact that they’re part of the problem.
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The Epstein Files
Reporters need to keep asking until Trump has a mental break.
The supermassive island of plastic waste that no one’s doing anything about other than dumping more plastic, which finds its way to that pile
that no one’s doing anything about
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I think calling it an island is doing it a disservice. It’s not visible as any collective mass of anything. It’s a diffuse mess of micro and macroscopic plastic spread across a truly massive area. Its essentially invisible from the surface.
You call it an island and the first thing people will want to see is images or video of this island. When they find out it doesn’t exist as described it makes them think the issue is overblown.
That Trump cutting funding for USAID will kill 14 MILLION PEOPLE, and we’re not calling him Hitler or Ghengis Khan. Wtf.
There are thousands of diseases that need more research. For every ice bucket challenge, there are a hundred more diseases with similar prognoses that go under-researched.
I think this is a result of severely misplaced priorities in society. How many marketers do we really need? Couldn’t they be doing something far more useful?
Counterpoint: medical researchers don’t make line go up
Imagine if making society better made the line go up instead of being a dickhead.
Education around the actual cause of the housing crisis.
Everything in the news and politics is intentionally ignoring the core issue and blaming it on scapegoats (immigrants, corporate landlords, developers)
The single biggest group making the most money off housing by a massive margin? Regular everyday single house owners.
They make up like 65%+ of the residential market, and yet we’re busy blaming everything else under the sky while trying to protect that group.
You want affordable houses? House prices have to drop, A LOT, for EVERYONE.
Why would they educate you on that.
They don’t even teach people about alternatives to FPTP, good thing there is the internet to cover the missing info public schools decided to hide.
They might be the biggest group of home owners, but they’re not themselves the issue. The optimal situation would more or less be every family owning a single home.
If house prices go down equally across the market, single home owners don’t really lose out because people typically sell houses when they want to buy a different house. People who recently took out big mortgages will complain about negative equity and some idiots are happy to see a number go up but by and large single home owners will be fine and won’t even complain a lot - they know from their children or other sources that its too damn expensive to buy a house.
The real losers would be people who own property as an investment, and developers. And those two groups have powerful lobbies and the majority of politicians are in the first group.
The single home owner NIMBYs are a problem in cases where prices will be affected but only locally. Then they really stand to lose out. So you basically need to have a massive nationwide house building program, either done by the state or through strong legal incentives to force developers to build a lot more of the right kind of homes and prevent them from sitting on land waiting for the price to go up. Or probably both.
