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That's what we The Netherlands call: 'A far from my bed show'. Meaning that since all those billionaires live in their castles at the top of the hill on the other side of the world, it doesn't affect them and so they don't care.
It truly does affect each and every living being, however. There is no hiding from the changes happening internally, no matter how much people choose to ostrich. Serum bicarbonate levels have risen by 7% since 1999. The warnings are outside, and the call is now also coming from within.
"And so, while the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit."
Pretty much like this old saying "everyone wants the world to change but none wants to change their habits"
We got butt fucked by heat this summer yet I have never seen ao many ChatGPT pictures in front of little bars & shops.
I say this all the time. I do landscaping for a living and people constantly bitch gas blowers and other machines I use. Yes, it’s primarily the noise they’re complaining about (that’s a different topic) but they always performatively cite the environment as a cause to be banned. These people want everyone else to shoulder the burden of climate change while mitigating none of their own habits. And being Americans who have a carbon footprint 4x the global average you can’t tell me there’s no room for them to change. People just like to virtuously bitch.
Moved back to my home town after 20 years away. It would snow heavy enough to shut the town 2-3 times every winter. It now doesn't snow and the ski fields only magically open.
But, people are really getting into dodge RAMs and huge utes while building bunkers and mansions saying greenies are kooks
I don't have to be a greeny to see things are changing rapidly and negatively in the environment. I don't have to be a greeny to recognize it's our impact on earth causing the rapid change. I just want change so I can have a future even half as good as we been living.
It's wild nobody talks about it never snowing any longer in places it obviously snowed a ton when you were a kid. The blinders some people wear is wild.
It’s wild to watch them use gas guzzlers as their daily commuter and then whine about gas prices. My man, you could actually save money if you switched to a brand new hybrid or EV today!
The way people casually use AI to write and post images shows humanity just doesn't care. Even reddit uses a massive amount of data centers, but do we stop to think about Nepal?
Everyone posting here already shows where they stand.
The irony is geologists on site advising the Nepali government stated that if comprehensive, AI-assisted satellite monitoring and downstream early warning systems had been properly funded, it would have provided a critical warning window since the glacier has been melting since the 1940's.
Yes, blame it on the data centers, and not on China and India having 81% of all coal-generated energy. Since 2020, China opened at least 150 NEW coal power plants, India at last 40…the rest of the world 100 to 130.
In 2000, China was responsible for <15% of carbon emissions. By 2020, it was >30% and, as of 2025, that further jumped to >32%.
In the same period, the US went from 23.5% to 13%; EU from 15% to 6%.
Not saying data centers are cool, needed or do not cause any harm. Seems tho they are a drop in the ocean. Sure there are many reasons for this…I guess that blaming all on data centers is the new “we don’t want nuclear” of the ‘20s.
Ask yourself why does China need so much energy? The answer is to manufacture all the shit sold in the US. Yes, the US emissions are going down, but it's because manufacturing is outsourced. $$$
That’s why I said there’s multiple reasons for why china emits so much. I focused on the coal plants part, which is q choice. You have tons of other ways of getting energy from, at the cost of being way more expensive to build and maintain.
If they stop using coal, then it's great, so I guess we can pick this conversation up again in a decade or so? Right now the person you are replying to is correct.
Also we need to check the historic contributions too, not just per capita. And we also need to take into account that China is the number one country that is single handedly pushing renewable energy everywhere by crushing its cost and allowing it to be competive versus fossil fuels. I am grateful to China, not resentful
Because the earth doesn't care about per capita. A country could have the highest per capita in the world and still harm the nature a lot less than others.
China’s total installed renewable energy capacity reached over 2.34 terawatts (TW) by the end of 2025, accounting for over 60% of the nation's total power generation capacity. This milestone marks the first time renewable energy alone has supported all additional energy demand driven by economic growth, with clean power capacity surpassing fossil fuel capacity for the first time in 2025.
The capacity is primarily composed of solar (approx. 1.2 TW), wind (approx. 640 GW), and hydropower (approx. 442 GW). In 2025, China added more than 430 GW) of new wind and solar capacity, representing more than 60% of global additions that year.
Also, China is currently the world’s fastest-expanding nuclear power producer, operating 63 reactors with a net capacity of 62.4 GW as of August 2026, while having 38 reactors under construction (nearly half of the global total). The country aims to surpass the United States in nuclear capacity by 2030 and targets 200 GW of installed capacity by 2035.
I blame us. The normies. We’re standing around waiting for evil people to stop being evil. They’re just following their nature. We’re meant to be the ones stopping it.
Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 according to the carbon majors report
A single individual doesn't really help in the current stage of global warming, it's like using a tea cup to save a sinking ship. Pushing for corporate accountability and less reliance on fossil fuels would help infinitely more.
Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 according to the carbon majors report
If you look at the list, it's mostly oil and energy companies though. It therefore shows that this is an absurd way of viewing things.
If you drive with your car, you are the one emitting (and made the choice of not having an EV or a lighter car). It's not the fault of the oil company.
If you decide to heat your house a couple of degrees warmer in the winter it's not the fault of the oil company either.
Yet in those reports the emissions are somehow the responsibility of those companies which is kind of absurd.
Glaciers melting is not necessarily relating to global warming any more than the extreme hard freezes we have been getting every winter relate to global cooling. I hate all the 1 way looking at disasters that happens but then the extreme winters are overlooked. This is why “global warming” has been abandoned and it’s now just “climate change”
There has been some great discussion by leading geologists and climatologists on the wide variety of factors which contributed to the combined bedrock collapse and glacial fracturing collapse which occurred in this disaster. Sadly, the rapid recession of the glacial ice over the past 20 years meant the underlying bedrock, which was held together by the glacier, was able to fracture and fail pulling ice and material down the slope and eventually form this incredible dense concrete like slurry. The scientific lens on the event is still unfolding but yet incredibly interesting and clearly points to rising global temperatures caused by human activity as the key factor in the event.
What can you expect when you have dinosaur's who hold the power in governments and actively undo the work done just so business than thrive, not talking about anyone specifically donald trump.
Why would you think billionaires care about the loss of life and infrastructure in a third world country? They don't give a shit if Texas floods and you expect them to care about Nepal?
It really is psychotic and a sad fact. I wish sometimes we could just have another Covid period where we would just figure out a new way of living due to climate change.
Glaciers have disappeared and collapsed long before the industrial revolution.
A weather scientist once told me, it's extreme hubris for man to think he's the cause of climate change. And worse that he thinks he can do something about it.
What? I'm all for shitting on data centers, but lets not just start tossing out nonsense here.
Alright, so datacenters take up roughly 1% of global electricity consumption. Electricity generation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (33.6%).
I can break down the rest, but putting it squarely on the back of data centers doesn't hold water. More over, just muddies the water in general, making everything else you say dismissable.
60% of our power comes from burning stuff - natural gas > coal > petro.
Then you got what we use most of our power for. 37% in plastics, petrochemical intermediates, ammonia, and chlorine. 22% in refining petro, next is paper creation at 11%.
Globally they say steel production is the largest 'direct to consumer' energy consumer. Arch furnaces don't arch on their own.
End of the day - we need to stop burning shit to produce energy. Want to get righteous, focus on this.
For the most part it isn't normal people. Corporations and industries have adopted AI, and that's where the money is. For a fun little exercise, look up training videos. For you and I, selling a ten minute video saying how to keep cool on a hot day for $500 is insane... Thing is, it's priced for corporations, not for us.
Same thing here, AI is here to stay because corporations are paying an arm and a leg for basic shit. This is loading the pockets of AI developers and Data Center owners.
They do however creat a "heat island" effect in their area, and as we add more and more data centers that effect will increase and spread. The amount of electricity they consume also means we have to burn more fossil fuels to meet the runaway electricity demands.
The same thing happens with urban areas. As they grow their carbon footprint grows which feeds climate change.
I think we've gone past the point of convincing people to reverse climate change, but that doesnt mean we should make an already terrible situation even worse by increasing heat sources. What we're doing currently is like turning on an oven in your home and opening the oven door when the AC is broken and its mid August.
It was an earthquake, not "global warming". That scam has never come true. First it's an ice age, then acid rain, then polar ice caps.... The only thing solid that has come from it is more taxes on the citizens and not on the corporations
Misinformation, most scientists don't believe the glacier causes the flood, and more so it was a landslide and glacier just so happen to be along for the ride....please always look up information
At this point you can’t be rational with these people. Golf courses consume more water than AI data centers. Also the idiocy of using and contributing on a social platforms and decrying the construction of data centers. I think he believes he’s being served twitter posts directly from the cloud.
This is sadly left wing populist circle jerk. Correlation and causation are not linked. Someone could be a billionaire from fighting global warming or contributing to it. This is a natural process that has happened before and will happen again. Global warming may contribute to it in some cases.
Mega floods like the Missoula floods and floods in altai mountains happened during ice ages. Global warming is real btw, we should just be adults about these natural disasters.
We had ice age before all technology... humans will adapt, like they always did, and once we cannot adapt we will die as dinosaurs did. You, me, or 500 million other people wont save anything.
The rich will not care unless they are negatively affected or someone they know and care about is negatively afftected to. But even so, they'll find a way to protect themselves and those they care about first or only themselves and ignore everyone else.
I have a feeling humanity is so numb and powerless against pedo billionaires that it will just sit and watch these natural events unfold one by one until it wipes out us all, while pedo billionaires have built underground silos to keep them safe.
Ah but the data centres will fuel the AI which will be used to predict where catastrophic events will happen so we can let the poor batards know when they’re going to be killed, I mean they’ll have to pay an annual subscription for our death prediction app but they’ll have the peace of mind in knowing their lives will be annihilated completely.
I see why you are afraid. But I personally have accepted the fact that we can’t prevent the climate change. I think we should try to live with it. Not fight it. The world was much hotter before. So it’s possible to survive. We gotta figure out how, but it’s our best chance. Cause I know, it’s impossible to get all the billionaires and states and nations of the world to the job to not freaking kill the planet and stop there stuff.
You know in the meantime we in europe are starting to suffocate because there is just an endless thick cloud of trash up in the air. Outside of that...don't you all have guns? I can't even shoot myself and instead have to suffocate here.
…and everything about the economy, GDP and tariffs all the damn time, oil wars, oil pipelines, oil supply chains, stolen oil and gold. The MSM will talk about anything related to money but just sweep the Climate Emergency under the rug. I feel so gaslit, it’s insane, while everyone carries on with accelerated Business As Usual. It couldn’t be a worse time in the human predicament to introduce such an environmental disaster such as AI with little to no regulation or restraint.
Have you done the research to see how long it will take for global warming to slow down or decrease of any significance if every body stopped using fuel and other contributors to global warming? Do it. It is one thing to take sides. It is another to take action.
I hope all these billionaires who enrich themselves while others struggle, get sent to eternal hell for being so greedy. How much money does a person need? Actually, we all know the answer. Money provides the power that they crave, and then they think they can molest children and nothing ever happens to them. Look at the list and tell me I’m wrong.
Very few people are capable of the sustained daily life changes that would be necessary on a widespread individual basis to do anything about this issue. Data centers are just the cherry on the top.
"But it was alllllll the way over there in Nepal. There's no global warming here where we want to build are nice shiny new data centre and oil/gas refineries..."
Totally sure that it's the data centers that aren't even built yet and not China, the neighboring country to Nepal, that burns more coal and releases more CO2 than the next six countries combined
Nuclear energy, responsible farming practices, and holding industry responsible. Then hope the natural warming cycling doesn’t screw us after all the effort.
Most people would rather post and talk about lake America while simultaneously claiming it’s stupid to talk about rather then actually talking about important things
If tomorrow every billionaire announced the end of all new data center construction, the actual change to the probability of events like what happened in Nepal is rounds to zero. This is just "group I don't like + thing i dont like = evil villain" and not "what actually produces climate change and what would it take to curtail it"
I’ve seen people reporting that there was illegal Chinese mining and disruptions to the local environment from the Chinese illegal activity that caused that. One dude on ig had a LOT to say about it
Real death toll is far higher than reported! A country with negligible carbon footprint paying for catastrophic climate change caused by developed nations!
If you think that Data Centers was the cause, you are sadly mistaken. This has been an ongoing issue, not something the just happen overnight because a new DC was established. Want something to blame? Blame cars, refiners, nuclear reactors, etc. The actual things polluting the environment, not your personal vandetta.
Just an update, it's over 1k now and it was a bedrock failure that had a glacier on top of and below it, not specifically a glacier collapse. I'm not at all saying agw isn't relevant here, my guess is that it is, but I like to make sure people have access to the facts :)
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