More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C].
The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.
The institute said such a high number of deaths was unusual and suggested record-high lake temperatures and an historic drought in the Amazon may have been the cause.
The news is likely to add to the concerns of climate scientists over the effects human activity and extreme droughts are having on the region.
It’s worse. The rich want civilization to break, so they can become the new aristocracy - ruling their own countries, having their own armies.
If that’s their plan it’s incredibly stupid. They’re really underestimating the lethality of ecological collapse, and overestimating the ability of their wealth to mitigate it. Their best bet at survival is being holed up in a bunker by themselves living an austere subsistence life with maybe some close family. There’s not going to be anything to rule over.
If that’s their plan it’s incredibly stupid.
It’s not, like most things it’s a lot dumber and simpler. Rich people don’t fight or organize as a class, but they don’t need too. The wealthy just have to look after themselves, and by doing so will vicariously establish benefits for other rich people.
I think in regards to climate change the wealthy are experiencing a malicious version of the bystander effect. Where they on some level understand their own endangerment, but expect a higher power to fix it for them.
However, when a government does attempt a fix that is personally detrimental to their financial health, they take it personally and become reactionary.
They are indeed building huge bunkers in large numbers
In the end, the rich and powerful only live in wealth because of the supply chain and, ultimately, the workers.
If civilization crumbles, so does their little empire.
What’s funny is that in a real collapse. Their skills are the least useful.
My structural engineer buddy often says “I’m still an engineer when the power goes out” lol
The problem lies with the people.
People did try to increase taxes for things like funding public transport or on CO2 but people don’t want less consumption they want more. Can’t even get Americans to stop driving huge oversized cars. We can’t built cycling lanes. We can put taxes on imports from polluting countries. We can’t ban gas and force heat pumps and induction.
People do not want change.
Because of that the business do business as usual. It’s the responsibility of the people to get leaders and laws in place to reduction consumption. But the people really really don’t want that so it isn’t going to happen.
While this water temp is concerning, the Amazon river is also dammed preventing the dolphins from fleeing to cooler water.
I was wondering why they didn’t just leave…
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Nevermind all the birds and insects dying, the crop and literal drinking water shortages. We’re gonna have front row seats to the collapse of civilization as we know it. What a fucked up time to be alive for anyone like me who cares deeply about nature. This shit is ruining my mental health.
Humanity does not deserve to exist. It has been decided, greed is our great filter. If there were 100 people to blame for all of this I could go out and kill them, but 100 million? What the hell can any of us do about that?
We still have the whole republican party denying climate change… these people are hopelessly fucking greedy and stupid.
Hear, hear. Something that comes close to to how I feel about us killing our biosphere is a quote from Paul Ehrlich: “What we’re losing are our only known companions in the entire universe”.
I am so enchanted by all of the weird little lifeforms we are supposed to be sharing our world with. All their amazing intricacies, beauty, and evolutionary history. All of it (but especially birds! Birds are my favourite). It’s so alien to me that people don’t give a shit and, to the detriment of everything else, only care about looking inwards to other humans.
That was a ramble! Quite sleep deprived and loopy over here.
What we’re losing are our only known companions in the entire universe
That is one hell of a quote and absolutely on point. I’ll remember this one.
It’s tough to see stuff like this and not think that we are helplessly doomed.
All the flooding… water temps over 100…
And crude oil is like $90 a barrel.
It gets easier to process the more you accept that we are bound for civilizational collapse, due to runaway climate catastrophes.
