Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Oof. The one good thing about Trump 2.0 is that I feel like everyone is dropping a lot of acts.
All the tech CEOs are various shades of authoritarian end-times doomers. They all know that they're frying the planet, and they're getting more comfortable admitting that they just can't really be bothered to stop doing it anyway.
they think they can hide in thier little bunkers or compounds in places like NZ, but they will have to contend with the STAFF whom they probably wont be paying much or keep barely alive, plus all the maitenance, like waste removal, clean water.
ChatGPT will be the first to fall. Claude will linger because programming uses a textbook-taught model. Nobody was ever going to use Copilot anyway. Apple didn’t even want Apple “Intelligence”, much like their stupid Alexa speaker, they just did it to appease idiot shareholders. Muskrat’s sex doll AI actually killing real humans will just be an AI sex worker that murders humans with generator pollution and nothing more.
Oh, and Google’s whatever AI thinks a rabbit is a squirrel. But nobody cares anyway. Google destroyed their phone OS permanently. Nobody will use their tech going forward. So. Yeah.
ByeAI! 👋
Models will live on, likely in the style of China’s goals. Small compact models to run on common hardware to achieve simple goals like fixing a lawnmower or a 747.