Capitalism. Because money is more important than life.

Maybe so that people don't just die of existential despair?

It is very depressing to see our planet go to hell.

I feel like we’re reminded every day on here, it gets tiring to a point we don’t pay attention anymore.

People don't usually care to read the same thing over and over again for decades like that

Because news is sales, and this doesn't sell. In fact, it will likely hurt sales. And almost everyone can't do anything meaninful about it on an individual, immediate level. So it's hard to think about and hard to act on.

Bad for business, hard to digest = out of scope for corporate or government media.

As usual the mainstream journalists don't understand what the paper is about and produce hysterical headlines.

If you read the paper it does in no way say the earth is going to be uninhabitable. It does say that they have modelled which bits of the earth will become less habitable and they are areas of high population density, and also that the risk is reduced sognificant of climate change is limited to 2 degrees. That's starkly different from the headline.

That is also without any critical appraisal of the paper. My first thoughts are how accurate is transfering static lab based measures of habitability to dynamic open environments?

This research is mildly interesting but like most research frankly it is of limited scope and utility, and unfortunately a great deal of research is actually unreproducible dross.

On top of that a lot of journalism is unthinking dross. This makes a good headline to feed the beast that is the internet but it does not reflect the reality of the climate crisis.

because we know

It's in the news every day. What are you on about?

Not good for profits, so it's swept under the rug while we deal with the bloated cheeto craziness as a diversion for something else even shittier happening.

many different reasons, but one of the main ones is that we (as a global society) dont focus on projects that take many decades to come to fruition. projects that receive funding are those that have an immediate payoff or those that have a return measured in years.

"fixing" climate change is something that will require that basically everyone alive today alter how they live - large and small changes - basically permanently, and for some nebulous payoff to occur several generations (or much longer) in the future.

it means limited product runs of consumer grade technology a drastic reduction in the number of companies allowed to manufacture products a severe reduction it the amount of consumer grade devices available at all

it means a severe reduction in international shipping (no more importing/exporting food) near total reduction in air travel, both international and domestic essentially an elimination of all non-food production petroleum usage (synthesizing fertilizer and plastic are still required or the entire system will collapse)

global population will have to drastically decrease effective immediately you dont have to live like amish but you wont be allowed to buy new tech/devices anymore. maybe 1 laptop/decade, if that. everyone has to live in arcologies. planned economies, planned societies, planned breeding/population controls

some or most of these changes are incompatible with some or all societies. it's just not going to happen without strict, authoritarian, regimental control on a global level.

We can't cost the shareholders.

The problem is we know but we are still making it worse! Capitalism has proven it can't fix this situation only speed it up!

Be cause there is still enough plausibility of denial, for now…

I dunno. But I have vowed to kill everyone I know who denied climate change as being a thing. Looking forward to that.

Where are the other bones ? The skeleton?

Because it's not new(s). badumtiss.jpg