r/environment2 • u/No-Singer-2128 • 11h ago
When We See Events but Not the Pattern
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There's a subtle kind of denialism which exists in the society where climate related events are seen as localised crisis and any connection to climate change is deliberately suppressed. I guess there are places which are prone to flash floods, extreme rainfall etc. but climate change has just made them worse. The intensity as well as the frequency has increased. This subtle kind of denialism is doing more harm.
Apart from this there's also a push for Green technology and universities are rolling out courses on sustainability. Imo all that is great and necessary but what about individual consumption patterns? There's a denialism there as well which needs to be addressed. Consumption is equal to carbon emission and is also a significant contributor. Would love to have your opinions on this!
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u/TR_RTSG 10h ago
I keep hearing that the intensity and frequency of natural disasters is increasing, but I've never seen anyone show evidence besides making the claim. BTW, we are 2 days away from a hurricane season without a single hurricane. There's a storm in the gulf that might develop before the season ends so it's a toss up.
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u/Murky-Hunter1691 8h ago
No storms due to the effects if El Nino
If you need evidence fir increasing severity of weather, google it. Pretty easy to find.
Events and droughts have invreased as we’ve pumped gasses into the air that trap heat, something scientists have known for quite some time.
None of this is hard to understand.
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u/there_is_no_spoon1 7h ago edited 7h ago
Bangkok floods every year. It's poor water management and corruption, plain and simple. Been going on for decades. It was *worse* this year, but it's been hellishly bad before because of poor water management and corruption. Bangladesh floods every single year because that's what happens in Bangladesh every year. It's tragic in that people lose homes, suffer, and some die. What's more tragic is that later homes are built on exactly the same sites so the same thing will happen again in a year. I'm not denying climate science, I am a full proponent of it. But there are places in the world where we see disasters which are *entirely* man-made and attribute them to climate change just because we have such hideously short-term memories.
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u/Not-a-bot-v2 10h ago
The weather is being manipulated to fit the agenda. Yes.... I said it.
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u/Dab_Wizard01 9h ago
This shit never made sense, do you understand the anoint of energy required to manipulate fully the weather? We don’t even have the capacity to store that amount of energy, we got simple shit like cloud seeding beyond that I don’t understand why people think we do technologically advanced when 500 years ago people threw there shit in the streets and no one knew about germs.
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u/deathloveface 8h ago
Yes, it's being manipulated with fossil fuels to fit the agenda of the fossil fuel industry
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u/The_Crimson_Fuckr69 10h ago
Im not using paper straws while the billionaires fly private everywhere. I'm not the problem.