Anyone in B.C. feeling da heat?!!! Climate change much!

[Consilience]

PNW, Oregon USA here. Ended up eating mushrooms and basking in the heat today on my back porch (shaded).

Felt like I tapped into an existential dread hiding in the collective unconscious. Kinda like when a student is procrastinating studying for finals by playing video games. Even as they’re gaming, the background dread of the final lingers, and the longer they dont start studying, the worse the dread gets and the more they ignore it. A negative feedback loop...

It felt like that was what our collective consciousness was going through. The majority of us are in utter denial about the severity of the situation, the potential for calamity looming right around the corner. 

Edited June 27, 2021 by Consilience

[diamondpenguin]

39 minutes ago, Consilience said:

PNW, Oregon USA here. Ended up eating mushrooms and basking in the heat today on my back porch (shaded).

Felt like I tapped into an existential dread hiding in the collective unconscious. Kinda like when a student is procrastinating studying for finals by playing video games. Even as they’re gaming, the background dread of the final lingers, and the longer they dont start studying, the worse the dread gets and the more they ignore it. A negative feedback loop...

It felt like that was what our collective consciousness was going through. The majority of us are in utter denial about the severity of the situation, the potential for calamity looming right around the corner. 

@Consilience what is the existential thing everyone dreads specifically? That's really interesting, but what is it?

[Consilience]

11 minutes ago, diamondpenguin said:

@Consilience what is the existential thing everyone dreads specifically? That's really interesting, but what is it?

Hard to say because psychedelic states are weird in general, but it just seemed like the climate crisis was some kind of massive issue we know is an issue, but are refusing to address. Idk how to describe it other than it was like the sum total of human consciousness knows in the depths how bad things can get but is actively ignoring it. So there’s this collective dread/fear shaping in the background of our species-mind, if such a mind could be said to exist. 

One of the qualities of the mind Ive learned from meditation and psychedelics is that A LOT is going on underneath the surface level of our awareness. It felt like the mushrooms dropped this veil and let more of the “background” into the surface view and what I saw was this dread. There’s still time but we are quickly running out and somewhere, our deeper intelligence knows this. Well, it felt that way. It’s important not to take these types of states too literally. 

[TheRigorMortisOffset]

@Leo Gura Have you been to the Omega Mart? Gonna check it out this week.

On 6/25/2021 at 9:58 PM, Leo Gura said:

Come visit Vegas to calm your tits.

 

[Matt23]

On 6/25/2021 at 9:58 PM, Leo Gura said:

Come visit Vegas to calm your tits.

Ya, well, when the average temperature for this time of year around here is between 19-22, that ain't good.  

 

On 6/25/2021 at 9:37 PM, Roy said:

Kamloops could hit near 50C on Tuesday. I invite people to look on a map of where that is lol.

Jesus.  

I'm up in Campbell River.  I think it's like 38 Celsius, but I think the humidity makes it seem way hotter (or colder if it's cold).  

[Milos Uzelac]

This is the effect of our coal-powered power plants in the Balkan region and look at the discussion the Reddit thread it's even more pertinent and informative on the collective attitude and beliefs of why this won't be soon fixed in the future  Some hilarious dark humor and cynical posts btw 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBalkans/comments/oeyj5e/bosnians_and_serbs_wtf_is_this_is_anybody_there/

From: https://www.env-health.org/press-release-eu-action-on-western-balkans-chronic-coal-pollution-is-a-unique-opportunity-to-improve-health-and-productivity/

"Based on the methodology by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission, the Chronic Coal Pollution report shows that every year air pollution from Western Balkan coal power plants is responsible for an estimated 3,900 premature deaths, 8,500 cases of bronchitis in children and other chronic illnesses. The health issues these plants cause adds up to lost productivity and health costs of up to EUR 11,535 million.

The old, inefficient, and substandard coal power plants in the Western Balkans emit an incredible amount of air pollution every year, impacting the health of people across the continent. In 2016 alone, 16 of them spewed out as much sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution as the entire fleet of the EU’s 250 coal power plants. Just one power plant, Ugljevik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, emitted more SO2 than all German coal power plants put together. And levels for particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are equally alarming.

The European Union bears the majority of the health impacts, with 2,013 premature deaths in 2016, asthmatic children suffering from symptoms for a combined total of over 36,400 days, an estimated 1,418 hospital admissions, and over 600,000 lost working days. European Union countries also bear the majority of health costs, up to EUR 5,899 million, while the burden on the Western Balkan countries is estimated to be up to EUR 3,648 million every year (other countries: EUR 1,988 million).

‘Air pollution knows no borders and is still an invisible killer in Europe. A significant amount of pollution from the Western Balkans travels into the EU. Pollution from the Western Balkans adds to the already poor air quality in the EU countries, making it harder especially for the adjacent EU neighbors to meet air quality standards. It is high time that EU policy-makers step up efforts to clean up the air and decarbonize the power sector in the Southeastern European region,’ commented Vlatka Matkovic Puljic, Senior Health and Energy Officer at HEAL, and lead author of the report.

The Energy Community Treaty, the international treaty working since 2006 to integrate the energy markets of the EU and those of its neighbors, set a deadline for Western Balkan countries to comply with EU pollution control legislation by 2018. Regrettably, however, meaningful action towards healthier energy systems, investments, and retrofits in energy production across the Western Balkans has largely been delayed.

‘Western Balkan coal is a burden on people’s health, the climate, and the wider economy. It is therefore in the interest of people across Europe – in the EU and the Western Balkan countries – to enforce Energy Community Treaty rules and to swiftly phase out this polluting, health-harming, and outdated technology.  Climate action, pollution control, and air quality must also be prioritized in the EU accession process. As the EU moves to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, Western Balkan countries must also phase out coal, not just because it is a chronic air pollutant but also one of the biggest climate change culprits,’ said Igor Kalaba, Energy Policy Coordinator for Southeast Europe at CAN Europe.

Furthermore, policymakers in the region remain determined to finance and build new coal plants, mainly with support from Chinese banks. Most of these plants would not adhere to the EU’s latest pollution control standards.

''What can I say a new type of hybrid warfare, not biological as the Chinese unleashed on the world but ecological unleashed on the adjacent EU member nations and other EU countries and against Europe and the Western Balkan Region with the help of Chinese money.  I am just cynically and desperately joking I know this is a ticket for a collective slow and steady premature death for all the people living in the region including myself."

‘Fossil fuels are health, financial, and environmental liability. Rather than investing in yet more outdated coal power plants, Western Balkan leaders need to adopt a forward-looking approach and strengthen their efforts to reduce energy wastage and increase the share of sustainable forms of renewable energy. This would bring the EU accession countries in line with the EU’s decarbonization goals, improve public health, and avoid the risk of stranded assets,’ commented Ioana Ceuta, Energy Coordinator at CEE Bankwatch."

Edited July 6, 2021 by Milos Uzelac