BC is burning, and I saw this post on Facebook.
Nah, climate change isn’t real.
Don’t worry, glorified golf course sprinklers will save us!
I know, this is jaded for a solar punk post, but we don’t need sprinkler defense - we need megacorps to stop producing 50% of global emissions
Somewhere, some day, a billionaire will see this and tell someone to make this happen around his private doomsday bunker/spa retreat to weather out the totally normal summer temperatures to come. Just until the Mars colony is up and running, of course.
I love how they snuck “commercial” into the post, too. Like, obviously it has to be commercialized, can’t fathom having any poor peoples’ homes saved, after all.
Technical limitations? Bah! That’s a typical poor people argument, they always lack vision!
but… but… Think of all the data centers you could power with all that water!
(/s)
Please implement my slop image as policy, my corporate sycophant agrees it will work
I agree with the overall sentiment in the post, but it’s also undeniable that we need to invest on disaster preparedness, given that extreme weather events are more and more common now.
I was thinking the other day, we need to get drone tech caught up to the point where we can use it in forest management to catch fires early.
I know forests need to burn, but we need to be able to control them, and manage them with prescribed burns.
(As you may already know) The problem with “forests need to burn” is, while it is technically part of natural forest cycles in some areas of the world, it is also true that natural cycles were relatively stable and worked before human-caused climate change. Now that climates are unstable and shifting we are getting crazy amounts of wind, heat, and drought that are accelerating fires in unpredictable ways, including in areas where forest fire was not the primary mechanism for recycling and regrowth.
Fun times 😂 especially when there are still people out there refusing any degree of responsibility who just want to be mad and hurt people for fun. Ugh.
The Botanic Garden in Australia’s Blue Mountains has just finished installing one of these around the perimeter. All going well will it will protect it against the next big fire. Added bonus of watering the trees when required.
