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As a new film mocks our lack of urgency about the climate, news that the ice shelf holding back a giant Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is about to collapse is largely ignored by the media despite the threat it poses, writes think_or_swim.

Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio star in director Adam McKay’s scathing climate-change satire Don’t Look Up

How do you stay focused on a story that is simultaneously terrifying yet, frankly, boring? This dilemma has plagued and largely defeated scientists and science communicators trying to convey the gravity of the climate emergency. Yes, over a number of years or maybe decades, truly catastrophic changes in the conditions for life on Earth will likely unfold, but they will do so fitfully and unevenly, with some areas devastated while others seem to suffer much...

 

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think_or_swim Same edition has IDA chief bleating for more data centre capacity with no regard for water use. IDAIRELAND completely at odds with Bordbia if taking finite tillage farmland resource and turning it into concrete data bunkers which may be obsolete in 20 years.

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think_or_swim Were high geothermal heat flows beneath the Thwaites Glacier mentioned?

think_or_swim At least your not peddling this silly carbon farming silliness. Much louder john. We cant hear you in the back!. naturefirst louderstill DontLookUp protectwhatsleft ClimateCrisis thinkofthenextgeneration blahblahblah ClimateAction

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