Comedian Lee Camp: NASA climate change video shows ‘we’re f*cked by 2100'

[Playinghardball]

Activist comedian Lee Camp used footage recently released by NASA on climate change as an opportunity for people to bring the issue further into public consciousness.

The video simulation, which Camp called, “We’re f*cked by 2100,” demonstrates the devastating consequences of carbon dioxide emissions continuing at their current rate of 400 parts per million through the year 2100.

“It makes the problems in the movie Independence Day seem downright manageable,” Camp said.

Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Masters told the Weather Channel the effects highlighted in the video are already manifesting by the increase in extreme weather over the past three years.”

“We’re only at 400 parts per million,” Masters said to the Weather Channel. “I shudder to think what it’s gonna be like if we hit 550 or 800, like we’re talking about for the end of the century.”

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/comedian-lee-camp-nasa-climate-change-video-shows-were-fcked-by-2100/

[Gregorian]

1. And don't forget, the methane is just starting.

I have a suggestion, let's kill the military machine. That alone would have at least a threefold benefit. But there are still other huge issues we have to deal with that we haven't even begun to discuss. It looks really bad. I wonder if we can turn it around, even if we stop doing what we're doing in the meantime.

[90-percent]

2. Nothing is going to turn it around

Wealthy elites are going to be the last humans swimming on the planet. The game is over. It's just a matter of time now. There is no way the wealthy elites will allow the worlds resources to be used collectively to mitigate the most horrific effects of GCC.

-90% Jimmy

[Gregorian]

3. I see another perspective- everyone has too much power. Not just the 1%

The 1% did not make this mess. I'm not defending them, and they didn't help. I went to my first electric car show in 1963. Yeah, I grew up in an interesting town. But batteries weren't around. However, the 1% fucked us by keeping the military HUGE, and not putting all of our efforts into renewable energy research. I remember the solar installations going up in the early 70's, and thinking how pathetic they were. But 40 years later, and we're still just barely out of the woods?! Fuck them.

It's two things, primarily, as I see it. Billions, all doing a little. And one monster (militaries) doing a hell of a lot. Lots of little "mes", and one big ME.

We could do the planet a big favor, and kick the military habit. But it's even worse than nicotine. People have designed their lives around military income. The whole economy is pretty much military. Try kicking that one.

I've been having this conversation for 40 years with some of the keenest minds on the planet. And our conclusions have always been that we're just going to wait until there's a crisis.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. That's ok, when we're back down to 1% of the current world population...

It'll only be a few thousand years for this to start to reverse itself.

[Gregorian]

7. We had it so good too. Refrigeration, vaccination, anesthetics. But we got lazy and irresponsible.

1-2 billion. That's what I see as being sustainable for a pretty long period of time. Maybe thousands of years, instead of 200. Man has been around for millions of years, and we blow it in 100 years.

Actually, the irresponsible breeding happened right around the time those inventions were discovered. Huge families. But the exponential growth function is very unkind when the numbers start getting beyond the billion mark, combined with longer lifespans.

Lack of vigilance and vision. And laziness. I'm really quite furious about it. And have been for 40 years. But this latest methane release changed all of that. I'm suddenly looking at the world in a different way. I'm no longer screaming for everyone to open their eyes. I'm just shaking my head, and reallizing that it's going to be an interesting time.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. The "1%" won't last long when they have to feed themselves.

If they are humanity's last hope, I wish the next dominant species well.

[Gus Lammas]

6. Nonsense

2080 at the latest!

[mbuch64]

8. Soylent Green

I watched Soylent Green on TMC this afternoon. Haven't seen this movie in years. It was downright spooky watching how this 70's film dealt with the topics of climate change, over-population, the privatization of social services (the police especially). Excellent film. If you've never seen it, you really should check it out.