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silence7 @slrpnk.net

9mo ago

When climate damage paralyzed traffic

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"I'm pepper spraying the water but it won't stop obstructing traffic!"
Local police probably
- Must not be American police. That water would be half bullets here.
  
  Nah, the acorn won't be very loud when it hits the water.
- This is Germany. Most bullets fired here end up in deer instead of people.
  
  As it should be
  Deer is delicious
  
  Here in Germany the police tend to call the responsible hunter to avoid the paperwork, that comes with shooting their weapons.
- I keep punching and choking it but it keeps coming back for more! Oh... Oh God..... IT LOOKS EVEN DARKER NOW!!! EVERY POLICE MAN FOR HIMSELF
  
  OFFICER DOWN!!!
  BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
  I'M HIT! I'M HIT!!

Porto Alegre underwater, not expected to recede any time soon

So what you're saying is, we need tougher laws against activists! /s
- Arrest that water!
  
  Beat it with a baton until it stops resisting

Theyre still not gonna make the connection

Give post10 15 minutes with a simple rake and traffic will be back normal

The climate knows that doing a protest that blocks highways are illiegal.

I'm so confused about the text. why would the climate paralyze climate activists? and what does that have to do with the image? so confused.
- Climate activists paralyze traffic with protests - straight to jail. Climate paralyzes traffic - pikachu face.
- wE jusT neeD tO sPend a feW, MorE billioN raisinG thE road Aa littlE BiT hiGher...
  
  ETDOPWNENGEAETG
- Because the top text should read "when climate change instead of climate activists...". It confused me for half a minute too
  
  oooohhhhhh, is that what they meant. that makes more sense
- Are we doing the switcheroo thing on Lemmy? How does it work? Do we link to Reddit?

Looks like bad engineering to me.
- A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.
  
  Those "once in a lifetime" or "once in a decade" weather events seem to be quite common these days
  
  At some point even the best plans aren't going to be enough, and the more we built the worse it gets. When an area gets water amounts in a day that it used to get in a year, that water simply isn't going anywhere fast. You know how evolution is about adaptation? I don't think we're adapting all that well or fast enough. (Yes, it's not quite the same thing, but the same point. Don't change, don't expect to survive)
- When people talk about the cost of climate change, the updated/improved replacement engineering and construction are some of those costs. And the same exact people who initially denied climate change even existed and who are now downplaying its effects are the exact same people who will complain about the additional costs caused by the consequence of inaction.
  
  Corporate spin: Climate change is creating more engineering jobs! We should keep at it!

It is time to hold mother nature accountable!

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