I'm trying to come up with an idea that has a positive impact on climate change as a personal project with some friends. The first step is to know which problems (that I didn't think of/ know of yet) are there to solve in the first place. It would really help me if you could tell me what your biggest problem is regarding climate change.
What are your biggest everyday problems regarding climate change?
It amazes me that people in Alberta vote the way they do. The current administration is about as anti-climate change and sustainability as they come.
More Alberteans need to believe in the urgent nature of climate change.
Hope you can stay safe
I’m a social democrat. I will never vote for the conservatives, who are collectively nuts at the moment. I’m worried that Albertans continue to put their hopes for the future into what are clearly NON renewable resources!! They’re not listening 🙉
Plus the whole pulling Alberta money out of the cpp.
Ugg. Don’t get me started on that one! I’m a Canadian first, albertan second. I do not understand nor support folks who aren’t team players. We’re no ‘better’ than our fellow Canucks from PEI or the Yukon. I worked and contributed to the CPP all of my life and that twit Danielle better keep her mitts off !
Do you know if you get a choice? If you do t live in Alberta but you spent your working life there do my contributions get affected or do you have to live in Alberta.?
That’s only one of the many questions for which the UCP has no answer. I’d move to Manitoba in a heartbeat if I was certain I’d still collect my well earned pension
Absolutely! There is no way I would trust Danielle to not give it to a dying industry and watch it disappear. Or even worse she puts it into general funds and then says there isn’t enough in the fund to keep paying cost of living increases then times are tough and so we can’t pay you as much.
I’m in Denver and summers seem hot~ upper 80s and 90s most days unless it’s a summer after an El Niño
I now find myself wishing I had air conditioning in Denver. A few decades ago it was completely unnecessary in my building.
I would say food prices. That cocoa spike is gonna hurt.
And then it's the plethora of problems that occur when one major political power in my country is actively trying to destroy my government, rather than try to make it better. The neglect & sabotage saturates every level of my daily experience. They've inspired an entire generation of quitters who won't fix things because everything's impossibly broken, and they'll be damned if they're going to let someone else try and fix things. That would make them look... wrong.
I'm from eastern Europe. It became very noticeably warmer during winter. I don't complain about it as I generally don't like freezing temperatures. The problem related to climate change is that weather became very unpredictable. It's a nightmare for the agriculture business. And agriculture is the main export of my country.
The summers are too hot too
Not just too hot but also a rollercoaster from dry hot to about freezing periods. This year we had a very warm April and now a freezing cold at night for a couple of days. That's enough for many plants to freeze(
The biggest problem is that fossil fuel producers and consumers are permanently changing the air, sky, atmosphere, climate, weather we live in, without our consent. It is the same as if they were dumping trash in our backyards (without our consent), except the amount is smaller, irreversible, and the mass is gaseous instead of solid.
The biggest, and only, problem is that US,China, and India continue to increase emissions and pollute for free.
How would you describe the role of the OPEC countries? And Russia? Just talking here.
They aren’t considered our allies by any stretch of the imagination so there’s that.
It just seems that if everyone isn’t rowing the boat? We’re bound to sink.
Sure it’s not good for the environment, but petroleum is used in so many things😂clean energy solutions use steel electronics and needs machinery to build it😂so how can you survive whitout?😂
I said fossil fuel. You switched to petroleum.
Without your consent? I assume you have never purchased any product created or shipped by a method involving fossils fuels.
The system was dictated to us by those in power. One cannot live in the modern world without consuming products that were made possible by fossil fuels. That decision was made for us.
You can live in the modern world and not consent to how it was made. That's not hypocritical. We didn't build this system and we didn't get to choose how modern life was designed.
You do get to choose how you live your life. You can eschew modernity and live on a subsistence farm. When you buy a product, you consent to how it was made.
Saying this unironically is something very special. You have to realize how ridiculous you look.
"Go live on a subsistence farm"
I am sorry you find logic ridiculous and do not understand that when you participate in an economy you are giving consent to how the products you purchase were made.
The amount is much greater than what I bargained for. It’s all the amounts, not the yes or no. In the past we didn’t know the amounts and what damages it caused. Now we do so we change our habits as much as we can. There are alternatives to fossil fuel transportation and to oversees products and you can seek them too.
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People would always give me dirty looks whenever I went to work riding an African tribesman.
Overpopulation is due by none other than the O&G industry itself. Synthetic fertilizers are made with fossil methane.
I have heard no actual reverence to the idea that the problem is overpopulation. In fact, we have more than enough resources for everyone and more.
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But not every human consumes the same amount. It’s not over population but over consumption by certain people
It’s not simple math, I assure you. That’s also a very misanthropic heuristic.
Overpopulation has never been and will never be a problem (with the exception of Easter island). Population collapse is coming.. and THAT is terrifying (assuming you value human flourishing)
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Yeah, I've heard that my whole life. It's wrong. People create more value than they consume. Population and prosperity rise together consistently all over the world.
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Yeah, that's just wrong. Have a good night.
When did you bargain? Did anyone defraud you?
Don't try hiding that O&G permanently changes climate. Just don't. Now go work for renewables.
Who is hiding anything? You claim to have bargained - with whom? What are you doing in your consumer habits to eschew fossil fuels?
What’s your plan to reduce fossil emissions?
Bad faith. Just a troll thinking they're smart because they figured a clever way to be snide
I can’t believe some people get on this app just to defend fossil fuel companies
You don't know what's bad faith, what's a troll, what I'm thinking, and what I can figure out. Now to show you aren't a bad faith smart asteroid troll yourself, tell us something true about how and why the climate is changing.
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Spotted dick?
The topic is CLIMATE CHANGE, not your diet. Now why don’t you freak out like a bitch about weather.
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I win when I get to piss off people like you. Better luck next time, but thanks for playing.
Why are you saying permanently when it's not permanent? There is technology that we have available right now that cleans the air, shit China uses it when they're going to have high profile visitors to their country.
If the powers that be wanted the air to be clean they could do it no problem, they just don't want it to be clean, they don't want people to be healthy, it's just more money for them.
On a geo time-scale, it may not be permanent but it could go way higher or way lower. On a human time scale (many generations), it practically is permanent, as I'm not seeing any sign of fossil emissions reduction, nor of GHG ppm coming back down to 200-something in the next few hundred years.
There is no technology today that takes more than 0.01% of CO2 out of the atmosphere, removing CO2 takes large amounts of energy and minerals
We aren't talking about the atmosphere. We're talking about air quality, and there are things that clean that air you breathe.
They were talking about CO2
The biggest problem is that fossil fuel producers and consumers are permanently changing the air, sky, atmosphere, climate, weather we live in, without our consent. It is the same as if they were dumping trash in our backyards (without our consent), except the amount is smaller, irreversible, and the mass is gaseous instead of solid.
and I was talking about air quality: "that cleans the air" I even referenced it being used.
Animals have to little rights and our morral Compas is incredibly narrow.
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Your spelling of climate and dummy were incorrect, typical dumbass.
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Your comment is indistinguishable from something a dumbass would write.
Not everyone speaks English as a first language. Being kind doesn’t cost you anything.
That people want to have their cake and eat it too.
They want to think that there can be a reduction in emissions without an associated change in lifestyle and consumption.
This is where the green washing excels.
'We will just plant more trees'
'We will buy an electric car'
'We will transition to solar and wind'
While all of these are seen as positive, they come with their own consequence and dont address the core issues, that we consume too much. Australia has a relatively small population and contribution to total emissions, but on a per capita basis, we are the worst. We will be the first to point the finger at China (which ironically is where we buy our shit from) or india for their population, however individually we are significantly worse than both countries.
I recently did some looking into the effect of solar panels(because I had questions) and found out that not only can they create heat islands(thus warming local climates) but depending on where they are installed can cause extreme temperature drops at night.
I need to do some cross checking but even though my area has not been getting as hot in the summers as it was even 15 years ago in the last few years I'm seeing more of the extreme day night temperature fluctuations and I would like to know if they correlate to increased solar installations.
I want to look back at least 40 years at daily year round temperatures.
The oceans are acidifying due to CO2. The oyster industry in my area has to come up with creative solutions to ensure their cultch are able to develop hard enough shells to survive.
On the same subject, the oyster harvesting season shortens every year because the waters are too warm, making the oysters unsafe to eat.
One farmer I know had to move his cattle herd to higher ground because sea level rise over the last 50 years finally progressed to the point where his fields were constantly flooded.
None of them call it climate change.
As a nursery owner, I stopped selling certain native trees because they no longer thrive in our area, including western red cedar and madronas. Cedars are dying out here due to drier conditions, madronas due to blights made worse by these conditions.
Douglas firs, hemlocks, spruces, and pines are all also at risk and dying from various causes. They are fire fodder. We now have a yearly smoky season.
I'm surprised no one mentioned that huge smoke cloud over Eastern US last year. There's plenty more where that came from.
That’s very interesting about the oysters. Sad and worrying, but also interesting.
That a topic which should brings us together to come up with solutions, just creates stupid infighting
The biggest everyday problem is the global effort to electrify the energy grid.
Electrification is the process of replacing traditional energy systems with electric-powered alternatives. Electrification is an important strategy that everyone can use to help the world reach net zero goals because it has the potential to decarbonize energy supply chains and mitigate emissions.
Examples:
- Replace your gas stove with an electric stove.
- Replace your gas car with an electric car.
- Replace your gas heater with an electric heater.
- Replace your gas _______ with an electric ______.
Or just get a smaller hatchback with 1.3 - 1.6cc
That works too!
Leave my Rx8, drive 1.6 as daily
$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
but generate the electricity with renewables, not coal or oil
I need to watch out for ticks .... with our cold winters before we didn't have any but now, our winters are hotter every years so we have ticks
My biggest problem is feeling gaslit and like I’m “crazy” because other people around me don’t see the writing on the wall to realize how bad it’s going to get how quickly. There will be massive food and water shortages, mass migration as people increasingly need to leave entire geographic regions no longer safe for human life, increasing wars over resources, increasing fascism.
Next is the smoke from the wildfires. I’m in the North of the United States. Last summer the smoke from the Canadian wildfires was near constant. It’s now mid-May and wildfire smoke season has already started. My body reacts badly to it. I miss being able to have the windows open and let fresh air in for the limited time we can here (for most of the year it’s too cold or too hot to). It’s depressing having to stay inside in my small apartment when I’d rather be outside enjoying what should be gorgeous summer weather.
Last summer the smoke from the Canadian wildfires was near constant
Sorry about that.
here in central Alberta we’ve had several days of smoke and there’s more on the way.
All of the places I love to hike are burning down. It’s devastating.
Summer heatwaves in the PNW... we aren't equipped for them. Also, smoke from wildfires makes my asthma really terrible. I pretty much have to stay indoors with my air filter up on bad days.
I’m saying this exact thing and I’m in Alberta, north of Edmonton. Not good.
That there are still people trying to argue against the fact of it.
It's like the GoP about aid to Ukraine, stalling, making things worse for no good reason, and costing lives.
It's exactly the same except the scale is billions of people not millions.
Lol imagine tying the climate alarmist scammto ukraine aid. Talk about a gold medal in mental gymnastics right there
Mental gymnastics is definitely not your forte, is it champion.
No, i dont partake in that fools errand
I know. You aren't a thinker. You are limbic.
Hahahahah. Govern me harder daddy, fill up that g5 with my carbon taxes. I bet you have a paris accord poster on your wall
You don't know what limbic is, do you.
depression/apathy/anhedonia/paranoia
Over $200 a month for extra money to water the damn garden. If you pay for water and you have drought, your bill goes up. Yet our government says plant a garden you will be ok. Ok my bill last summer was over $600 for 3 months. Iam a senior and live by myself.
Can you set up a way to collect water off your roof? Are you doing companion planting/heavy mulching so that not a lot of bare ground is exposed to the sun? I can recommend some you tube channels on different ways to set up your garden depending on where you live to reduce water loss through evaporation.
Yes I use 2 rain barrels. But last year they were empty all summer sadly.
In the Philippines, I can’t play football until noon. As stated by our national weather service station, it is already too hot and at dangerous levels.
I can still play one-day festivals and tourneys 10-15 years ago from 9 am-4 pm. Now, no anymore. I am troubled that kids will never be able to experience and enjoy playing outside during summer. It’s what we fucking look forward to every summer. I hate it.
Why u so pressed?
My everyday problem is that the most powerful people around me decided to fund medias and political organisations that have no plan to do anything regarding climate change (or maybe disinformation, which is adverse). I'm not naming them because I want to respect the rules, but those represent a real existential threat for me, so, that's my everyday problem. I'm probably more at risk from them than from climate change directly, but the link is as follows : the powerful would not fund them if they weren't their only solution to not accept the economical consequences of cc. So, yeah. I hope I'm not gonna get banned for this since this is the least political way I could have framed it I guess.
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It's relative. One person from a first world country contributes to a climate change as much as 10 ppl from a third.
So do the 10 kids who help fill the oceans up with plastic trash count as hurting mother earth or nah who cares?
Incorrect
I want to drive with the windows down. But even then it's so hot my phone stops working
Prob 1 : The general public dont understand that humans cause it - half still believe its "natural".
Prob 2 : Most people dont understand that net-zero is peak CO2 ie peak heat .. and it will be +2.5C by the time we reach net-zero in 2050 or so... then it will stay that high for a long time, because the CO2 stays there.
So.. net-zero is not "mission accomplished" .. its the first step. If we want to survive, we also need to reduce the heat - there are only 2 ways - remove CO2 or reflect more sunlight.
This is why we need SRM - release particulates to increase cloud cover, to reflect more sunlight over the oceans, which will have a cooling effect.
I think it’s making my chronic pain wo4:4
My insurance costs are going up
I live in US high Chihuahuan Desert. We used to have snow and rain reliably during the "normal" year. This kept everything going.
Recently, no or very little snow. Also, heat over 110 for over a month last summer. It's a challenge when it's very hot. The city here opens up cooling centers for people in need.
My everyday problems are staying hydrated and making sure I'm using water wisely. Other areas are experiencing rolling blackouts when this happens. I think getting a lot of solar installed here has helped.
Probably just the fact that we're killing almost every species on the only planet in the universe known to have life and we're all gonna die young and all my loved ones are going to die
I work outside as a train conductor on a river. Not only is it hot as fuck but it’s also humid. Just miserable all around
The biggest problem is all the misinformation and polticand using it as an excuse for their money grabbing.
So my kids and their kids get to deal with 20 or 60 or 180 days a year of heat index over 105F depending on where they live
Ok that’s right no one can live with 180 days a year like that
So north they will all go
Unless we all cut out most of our fossil fuel burning
Not knowing wether to wear shorts or a parka
That the issue is being exploited to further political agendas that have more to do with authoritarian control than mitigating climate change.
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For now
My biggest problem is solutions intended to impoverish people rather than bring them abundant cheap energy.
Doing any kind of work costs money. Working to build new forms of abundant cheap energy also costs money.
Yes, and abundant cheap energy ultimately increases work efficiency and saves money. For now, that means continued use of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas until we can get sufficient nuclear power online. Solar and wind have a place, but will not be an answer in themselves.
In California, this is today's electric grid energy source mixture:
California ISO - Supply, Today's Outlook (caiso.com)
As you can see:
- We do not use coal in California.
- Natural gas is only 31% of the mixture.
- The rest of the mixture is renewables, nuclear, hydro, imports from neighboring States, and previously stored energy in batteries.
Our renewables are solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and small hydro. They make up about 21% of the total mixture.
In California, nearly 70% of the mixture is not necessarily coal or natural gas.
Sure, now add in transportation and agriculture. I am not against renewables. I am against hydropower as it almost always is terrible for the riparian environment.
The storm outside is messing with my internet and fallout 4 is updating, that's my biggest challenge right now hurricane season is going to hit different
You may research more on this topic about Carbon Footprint, Food Waste, and Water Usage.
People acting like the sky is falling
Just don’t look up, right?
The hysteria of outlandish predictions
Doomers
Accept that climate change is irrevocably underway. Now imagine that future and figure out what you must do to prepare. That's your positive action.
Oh so it never happened before? Like when michigan was under a mile of glacial ice? Hmmmmm
Hmm. That is the past. What are you going to do for the future?
If we remove all the co2 what will keep the vegetation alive?
That people believe alternative energy like wind farms and solar panels will help. They don’t. We need to stop stonewalling and killing zero point energy research. Rebuild the Wardenclyffe tower
The biggest problem is the sun ☀️- and how the earth rotates around it causing the climate to change. 🤔
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I’m in north central Alberta. The heat during summer is getting to be tiresome. We used to have one day a year over 30* C, that’s 86*F. Now, we have weeks of it Earlier too. It’s May , and what little snow we got this winter just melted. It’s too dry and warm. We have SO MANY fires now. The whole northern two thirds of this province is boreal forest and we love it. It’s on fire in so many spots. I find it all Very distressing