Labour is so undervalued in Malaysia and that is directly related to how they view people as disposable. Lives are cheap. Not just this helicopter crash, but the absolute disregard concerning road accidents that occur daily leading to so many deaths & injuries. It's all connected
Rainforest burnt to the ground in Kalimantan Borneo where fires are deliberately started on a massive scale to clear land for palm oil. Nearly a quarter of a million acres burnt in Borneo in July. Heat, war and extinction. The Capitalocene's greatest hits
I too used to look at 1.5°C above pre-industrial temps and think pffft, that's nothing. We'll get slightly warmer summers. Great.
And then I started looking into it more when I saw the flooding, heatwaves, fires, crazy hurricanes. It was then I knew.
I realised I was confusing weather with climate.
When your local temperature goes up 1.5°C in an afternoon, you don't even notice. But when the entire planet retains that much extra energy 24/7, the reality changes completely.
Think of it like the human body. Your normal temperature is 37°C. If your core temp rises by 1.5°C, you don't just feel "a little warmer." You have a fever. If it rises by 3°C, you are in the hospital with organ failure.
That 1.5°C isn't an even, gentle warming. It is raw atmospheric fuel.
And now, time has officially run out. The United Nations just announced that exceeding 1.5°C is now completely unavoidable. We are officially tracking toward a peak of at least 1.8°C only if we do everything perfectly. Under our current trajectory, we are heading straight for 2.6°C.
The temperature the human body cannot survive
A healthy young person will die after enduring 6hrs of 35C warmth when coupled with 100% humidity or 46C at 50% humidity
New research shows the threshold is significantly lower. Participants reached their "critical environmental limit"—when their body could not stop their core temperature from continuing to rise—at 30.6C wet bulb temperature, well below the previously theorized 35C.
It take between 5 to 7hrs before conditions would reach "dangerous core temperatures"
https://t.co/I3FVctA85o
No I don’t agree with using the disaster in Nepal and Tibet as some sort of analogy to what might happen here. Those deaths do not exist to be a reminder to us about wickedness. Our daily existence is enough to remind us we are a wicked people.
Initially, it was thought that an earthquake near the Nepal-China border triggered the catastrophic flash flood down the Bhotekoshi River today.
However, further analysis suggests that the glacier collapse ITSELF caused the earthquake.
Yes, you read that right. A Magnitude 5.2 seismic shockwave caused by a colossal landslide of ice and rock on the Earth’s SURFACE. This is actually insane.
When I was a kid, adults would condescendingly tell me I’d change my mind when I got older. What I have noticed as an adult is how many parents didn’t want their kids but had them unplanned/b/c they felt they had to check it off the “adult to-do list,” etc
we live in an era where “Israeli” drones literally hunt down specific individuals who in turn know that the drone is after their lives. when in their homes they leave them to be killed outside & alone. when in cars they leave them to spare the rest. this alone should make everyone else worry about not the future but the present status quo & the ease with which human life can be taken in the most cauchemardesque way. at some point in the past I used to worry about the future that the normalisation of our current reality establishes. now I am horrified by the way it is currently being dealt with by none other than ourselves. may God send the gift of mercy into our hearts. let us have mercy upon each other.
Even as a Malaysian, I care about forests, animals & people anywhere.
So, I just created a resource document if you’re looking to support Indonesian or international NGOs working to protect communities & wildlife from the forest fires in Kalimantan.
https://t.co/flH1ZDNU1m
Indonesia has the most peat forests in Southeast Asia. But today, only 18.4% of the country’s peatlands are undisturbed. Most of them are degraded & drained by palm oil & pulpwood corporations.
Corporate greed backed by government apathy destroys our forests & pollutes our air.
fact is you guys played around in english class your entire lives, not taking it seriously, reading the materials through online plot summaries and now you wonder why you don’t actually understand anything
A society obsessed with productivity eventually forgets how to recognize humanity outside of performance because everything in society has to be trendy, profitable or turn into content. This is not sustainable.