Kind of disturbing to hear people saying "this is the new normal" about the climate crisis. It isn't a new normal, because it will carry on getting hotter if we carry on using fossil fuels.
This "new normal" talking point seems to be the latest way fossil fuel companies are trying to avoid action 🤮
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Roger BW 😷
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Adam McKay (Current Affairs Inc)The Crafty Miss
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The fossil fuel economy
Angie
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in reply to FediThing • • •this isn't the new "norm". Norm is now irrelevant for the future. This is the new standard deviation. More extremes : hot/cold, wet/dry.
Forget the cosy days, brace yourselves for the rollercoaster.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to FediThing • • •The public corruption that surrounds the fossil fuel industry isn't "normal".
It is an industry funding ecocide.
archive.is/d2AG8
It is an industry funding genocides.
wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/foss…
It is an industry funding Supreme Court sleaze.
theintercept.com/2022/06/30/su…
It is an industry funding wars.
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It is an industry funding financial frauds.
archive.is/T2moG
It is an industry funding far right movements.
desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-u…
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in reply to FediThing • • •An odd phrase, really: "the new normal." If we work at it (and we are, we are), the new "normal" could resemble Venus. And in spite of the illustrations in some very early sci fi books I read back in the late 1950s, we have no evidence of life on Venus, bug-eyed or any other kind. A truly nasty planet.
Mind you, there's no need to achieve a Venusian level of heat, carbon dioxide, and sulfuric acid in order to do ourselves in. We're moving right along, assisted by "leaders" like Trump who will happily steal our money while 'leading' us off a cliff. And wars! How stupid are wars at this point in the story of humans? 😩
Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to FediThing • • •People who care about other things than people and life more, would say that, wouldn’t they.
They are telling on themselves; They are anti-human.
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in reply to FediThing • • •@bert_hubert Exactly. Accelerated worsening is the new reality – anything but normal.
First stage of improvement would be linear worsening, then decelerating worsening, before a new stable climate can occur – all on the geological timescale.
Humanity may or may not be still around at that stage but tardigrades likely will
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
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