<story><title>US-Canada heatwave &apos;virtually impossible&apos; without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgpl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been cranking up my AC and adding ice to my water to combat the heat but I recently read an article about sea-life [0] boiling to death in their natural habitats (oceans, seas) which made me realize that animals in the wild increasingly don&amp;#x27;t have this option.&lt;p&gt;It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&amp;#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime because while we all &amp;#x27;care&amp;#x27; there&amp;#x27;s no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it&amp;#x27;s also not a one nation issue.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.complex.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a-billion-seashore-animals-to-death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.complex.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>&amp;gt; It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&amp;#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s generally agreed that we are already living within a mass extinction event[0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Anthropocene#Biodiversity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Anthropocene#Biodiversity&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;Humankind has entered what is sometimes called the Earth&amp;#x27;s sixth major extinction. Most experts agree that human activities have accelerated the rate of species extinction.The exact rate remains controversial – perhaps 100 to 1000 times the normal background rate of extinction&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>US-Canada heatwave &apos;virtually impossible&apos; without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgpl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been cranking up my AC and adding ice to my water to combat the heat but I recently read an article about sea-life [0] boiling to death in their natural habitats (oceans, seas) which made me realize that animals in the wild increasingly don&amp;#x27;t have this option.&lt;p&gt;It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&amp;#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime because while we all &amp;#x27;care&amp;#x27; there&amp;#x27;s no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it&amp;#x27;s also not a one nation issue.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.complex.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a-billion-seashore-animals-to-death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.complex.com&amp;#x2F;life&amp;#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.&lt;p&gt;Recycle if you want, but don&amp;#x27;t stress about it (especially religiously).&lt;p&gt;One, for the landfill reason you mentioned, and two, while it does feel good to &amp;#x27;do something about it&amp;#x27;, the scale of individuals recycling doesn&amp;#x27;t make up for massive companies generating waste without recycling. If you want the agency back, you&amp;#x27;ll likely have to get into politics, activism, and&amp;#x2F;or join those companies and change them from the inside (note: incredibly difficult side quest)</text></comment>