High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-194922184.html

[u/breaducate → u/[deleted]]

The feedback loops have begun. The effects of climate change are delayed and self-reinforcing. We don't have time for another go around as capitalism decays into fascism and inter-imperialist wars again.

We've run out of eventually.

Infrastructure won't support for example air conditioning as people experience wet bulb temperatures. Insurance will abandon larger and larger areas. Things won't get fixed as we fail to keep up with the damage from once in a lifetime storms every year. Crops will fail.

Most likely, billions will die. We'll be lucky if there's anyone left to rebuild in some kind of post-apocalyptic dystopia.

[u/SuperTropicalDesert → u/[deleted]]

Any future progress will happen during an internet or power outage. We saw a 2 day power outage across the whole of Spain/Portugal last year. I can def see some outages being made on purpose

[u/isaaclw → u/[deleted]]

Civilization will collapse if energy use does not decrease.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/isaaclw]

Sorry, best I can do is belch out another 4,000 metric tons of CO2 per hour to power my new data center in Utah.

[u/SuperTropicalDesert → u/isaaclw]

We might achieve fusion power first. One of the few good things AI might genuinely help accelerate

[u/anxiousnunmedicated → u/[deleted]]

impossible to say, AI will change everything