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Since 2010, I've been appealing to people about the urgent need to address climate change. Droughts, heat waves, and storms are the best-known effects of this global crisis. It's an issue that has been explored in pop culture for decades; from tvshow's to movies like The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and animated films like WALL-E (2008) presented fictionalized warnings, while powerful documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and A Life On Our Planet (2020) from David Attenborough laid out the scientific facts.

But it's not what we know that should worry us most – it's what we don't know. We are only beginning to grasp the full extent of warming's impact on permafrost, ice sheets, and ocean currents.

Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and the loss of biodiversity are already devastating communities around the world. We are witnessing the consequences of our inaction in real-time.

This underscores the critical need for immediate and decisive action to mitigate climate change and safeguard our planet.

And cos it's 🏝️🍹⛱️🌞 🌊 in Northern hemisphere :

Embrace the irony. Go to the beach, sweat, then pay to freeze at home.

The global warming special: 35°C outside, 18°C inside.

The summer ritual is a masterpiece of self-defeating logic. We spend months dreaming of long, sun-drenched days, only to greet the first heatwave by complaining about the heat. We then flock to the beach—a giant, sun-scorched sandbox—to sweat profusely, all for a brief, tepid dip in the water. It’s an act of collective delusion, a voluntary pilgrimage into discomfort.

Then comes the real paradox: we return from our sun-worshipping escapade and, with a sigh of relief, slam the door, crank the air conditioning to arctic levels, and bask in the artificially cooled air. We burn electricity, contribute to the very global warming that makes our summers unbearable, just to escape the very season we claim to love. It's a grand, theatrical show of hypocrisy, a testament to our ability to crave one thing while simultaneously fighting against its consequences. In the end, we're not so much enjoying summer as we are trying to survive it, one overpriced mojito and one energy bill at a time.

If this is human intelligence, maybe the heat has just made us all a little heat-struck.

However great our errors, nature will surpass them—with or without us.

— Adelino Saldanha

To me, humans of the current and future generations confuse 'having access to information' with 'having knowledge'. Nature doesn't read geoengineering reports; it responds to its own units.

— Adelino Saldanha

If Nature isn't kept healthy, humans won't survive. Simple as that and let's face'it, nature is already scruded. The question is whether it is possible for us to have a future.

Nature does not make mistakes. Nature don't need our protetion just our absence.

The ultimate irony will be realizing we calculated the risk but forgot that nature follows patterns, not algorithms. Science's greatest mistake is believing that tomorrow was merely a variable of yesterday.

—— Adelino Saldanha

🦖 #24431 The melting glaciers are not just a matter of rising sea levels; they're a ticking time bomb of ancient microbes waiting to be unleashed. Climate change isn't just about the heat; it's about the hidden dangers lurking beneath the ice.

🦖 #24570 The digital age has an icy side. AI's growing power demands massive amounts of water for cooling, rivaling the volume of the colossal in the move A23a iceberg. + 🦖#24571

🦖 #25212 The future of the species: Remote work for the bread, VR goggles for the view, and a clinic for the seed. Locked inside by the climate, we are becoming a race of digital eunuchs—connected to the world, but dead to the touch.

You think I’m a lunatic? Look closer: it’s arriving in silence, one ‘like,’ one ‘login,’ and one ‘delivery’ at a time. It's called 'boiling frog' syndrome.

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