air is probably cleaner now than it was then
Elaborate?
go read a historybook on the industrial revolution
That would make the air… less clean now?
Edit: looks like PM2.5 and PM10 levels were 10-100x more around a hundred years ago. Seems like air quality is in fact better now.
I myself asked “What time of year was the lower photograph taken?” Then I realized I was being dumb, because if either photo was taken in winter time, we would see at least some ice in the water, if not a very large ice sheet.
That, and it’d be dark. You’d need to pack one hell of a flash.
Notice the first guy is in a wooden boat and the second guy is in a boat most likely made out of some plastic-based fibers. 🤔
The plastic isn’t really a huge driver of climate change, the problems it causes are different.
For the climate change comparison, notice that the old boat has oars, but the new boat has a gas engine
The boat in the old photo (from 1928, apparently) is casting a pretty good wake, and the man aboard is holding a tiller attached to a rudder. It’s impossible to tell for certain with the low-res image, but entirely likely that one of those shapes in the boat ahead of him is an inboard engine.
Which is also a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic.
Far too many people are eating gas
It’s so calorie dense!
the old boat has oars
Which no-one is using. It’s the first thing I noticed. There’s a man sitting in the stern with a tiller and rudder, but there’s no visible means of propulsion, no other crew. Weird.
Edit: I zoomed in, and it’s possible there is someone else in the boat, hard to see.
New real estate!
This is wild 🫨
yeah but it’s much more colorful now. that’s good, isn’t it?
OP always thinks positive.
But at what point does it become toxic positivity?
Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.
We should put some factories there!
This might be silly but we could replace the ice with trash?
Already working on it, my dudes.
We might have to workshop this, but I feel like there’s a good idea in there somewhere
While were at it we should also put a 50 lane highway
Afterwards, 30 chained fast food resturants along with gas stations can be built along it followed by market advertisement campaigns to set up billboards
Hear me out.
Miles of parking lots!
I’m always disappointed when someone takes the time to try to reproduce an old photo but they miss by not having everything identical (wooden boat).
Then I’m more disappointed because that motorized boat is part of the problem that caused this tragedy.
IDK, maybe that was the point
Yes, let’s focus on that.
The motorized boat is an accurate representation of how things are today.
I mean anyone is free to try their hand at reproducing it better, I’m sure the spot hasn’t changed that much since the modern one here was taken, and if it has, well it’ll just make the comparison that much more dramatic.
crazy to think that guy has been on that boat for over 100 years
He clearly switched boats.
Nah, he just slowly upgraded and remodel on the spot. The guy never moved from that spot. 🤥
Boat of Theseus
No boat would live that long…
Sure it was at the same time? Did the account for leap seconds?
It’s in TAI timezone
Oprah buying up development rights on the coastline there too?
Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.
Thanks, emissionschads!
Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.
Thank you. I’ll do my best regardless. Will you be joining us?
I’ll do my best, yes.
That…. Is fucking tragic. There’s no going back to that. Ever.
Oh it will be back. We won’t be. But the planet always bounces back.
Not really tbh. The earth is well past the halfway point until we look like Mars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
We would be closer to Venus
Don’t worry, the ice will come back, we just won’t be around to see it.
For that to happen the carbon would need to be buried in the ground again, however
And it’s possible that humanity has emitted so much and warmed the globe so much that we shift the global climate stability point to something else than was before. It’s possible the new equilibrium over millions of year will be a warmer earth
Or an Earth with Harsher winters and Massive Winterstorms followed by Scorching HeatWaves. Only cockaroaches will survive.
Unless you are evolving into roaches, no human being will survive the Earth’s mighty global climate swings.
Speak for yourself, I intend to be here for it.
Revenge of the Titanic.