this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
55 points (96.6% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5184 readers
566 users here now

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
55
Namibia to cull 83 elephants and distribute meat to people affected by drought (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 14th_cylon@lemm.ee to c/climate@slrpnk.net
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

WINDHOEK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said.

The cull will take place in parks and communal areas where authorities believe animal numbers exceed available grazing land and water supplies, it said in a statement issued on Monday.

Southern Africa is facing its worst drought in decades, with Namibia having exhausted 84% of its food reserves last month, according to the United Nations. Nearly half of Namibia's population is expected to experience high levels of food insecurity in the coming months.

(...)

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Dimok@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I eat meat, but elephants are a little too intelligent for me to be ok with their meat. I'm also not starving and in a drought, so that would probably change my mind..

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The elephants themselves are also dying from the drought, so it is fucked up situation all around :(

More than 200,000 elephants are estimated to live in a conservation area spread over five southern African countries - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia - making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations worldwide.

Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana and Zimbabwe last year because of drought.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Oh wow… that’s terrible all around.

But I guess it’s happening “over there”, so most people don’t care too much about it :(

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

The country also plans to cull 30 hippos and 60 buffalo, as well as 50 impala, 100 blue wildebeest, 300 zebra and 100 eland.

Climate crisis is getting a lot more dire than it had been. Please do what you can to help. I don't like depressing articles like this, but it's important to be aware and informed. Fuck.

Also, today I learned the word eland. They're hoofed animals that look sorta like deer.

[–] garpujol@discuss.online -5 points 2 months ago

They should feed the people to the elephants.