Interesting note for Fediverse/Mastodon users: you do not get a "view" count here, which makes some new folks (ie journalists/others) feel like they aren't being seen, even though their message is being read by lots of people. They only see the boosts and stars... So hit the "star" button often, especially on new people finally migrating here! #Feditips
Heat is making our planet uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?
Recent study finds that millions will be displaced as #ClimateChange makes their regions too hot to live
By Matthew Rozsa
Staff Writer
Published October 16, 2023
"In the 1973 sci-fi movie '#SoylentGreen,' the year 2022 is depicted as a world so ravaged by pollution that the temperature never drops below 90°F (32°C). Food is scarce; millions of people are homeless and crowd together in hallways just to sleep; the government has become overtly authoritarian. While things are not currently that bad (at least not yet), studies on climate change repeatedly indicate that the heat-based premise of 'Soylent Green' is rapidly becoming close to reality.
"Why is this not universally regarded as the biggest news story in the world?
"Consider a study published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which studied #Wetbulb temperatures (meaning the temperature measured by a wet thermometer in the shade as water evaporates off it). If wet bulb temperatures exceed 31°C (88°F), people cannot consistently perform physical labor without endangering their lives; in temperatures that exceed 35°C (95°F), a healthy human can die within a few hours without access to water or shelter. The authors of the PNAS study analyzed 'wet-bulb temperature thresholds across a range of air temperatures and relative humidities' using bias-corrected climate change models. Their conclusions were sobering...
By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing humanity to the brink of total extinction. New York City has a population of 40 million (out of a global 20 billion), and only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food, in walled-off "corpo-villages" patrolled by armed guards. The homes of the elite are fortified, with security systems and bodyguards for their tenants.
"Soylent Green is made out of people!" #SoylentGreen
"only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food, in walled-off 'corpo-villages'"
We have those in southern Maine -- they call them "Gated Communities"!
"The Cottages at Summer Village is a gated 3-season cottage community just minutes from the sandy beaches of Wells, Maine. It is located on former farmland tucked off of Post Road, and combines easy access to the beaches, shopping, restaurants, and other amenities of Wells and Ogunquit, Maine."
I'm no expert but "The Crew is the special sauce" posted outside a fast food place might be a marketing message that didn't get enough review. #SoylentGreen
@dangillmor@mozilla Can’t we make it illegal for cars (appliances, etc) to collect personal data on us? I’m feeling like we’re all being ground up and sold to a data hungry monster. #SoylentGreen But it’s our data.
50 years ago, 1973's "Soylent Green" depicted a nightmarish future: the oceans are dead, corporations are in control, and many are homeless. Um...
"In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted, and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans. In New York City, when Soylent's member of the board, William R. Simonson, is murdered, apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, efficient Detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon "Sol" Roth. Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson's bodyguard Tab Fielding and the "furniture" (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl and the detective concludes that the executive was not a burglary victim but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini and other powerful men want to disrupt and end Thorn's investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers a bizarre, disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green."—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil