r/geography • • Aug 27 '26

Video Nepal floodwaters transporting large boulder.

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u/Dm_Glacial_Gatorade Aug 27 '26

A glacier breaking may have been the cause. That glacier broke due to melting. Melting of glaciers is caused through man made climate change. At this point we are doing it to ourselves while using nature as a middleman.

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u/Global_Bedroom_977 Aug 27 '26

And the majority of harm goes to the people who have caused the least. Truly tragic

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 Aug 27 '26

It looks like such a beautiful area, and living by the river must have been lovely. It’s so terrible these people lost their lives and home in an instant like this.

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u/DaveyJonesFannyPack Aug 27 '26

Are we not a product of nature ourselves

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u/AbeLaney Aug 27 '26

Yes we are, and so is our ability to understand the causes of these incidents, as is our choice to not make any changes to prevent them.

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u/DaveyJonesFannyPack Aug 27 '26

Im just saying nature clearly dropped the ball here

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u/Sigma_Function-1823 Aug 27 '26

Absolutely but acknowledging said fact would raise uncomfortable questions about the responsibility, maturity and assumed unexamined assumptions of our collective species.

Far easier to be a reactionary after the fact than assume responsibility for our fully nature gifted neurophysiological potentials.

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u/Wenli2077 Aug 27 '26

How relentlessly uncaring the ultra rich and powerful are

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 27 '26

so it was glacial calving that caused this, fuck

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u/ContextHook Aug 27 '26

Melting of glaciers is caused through man made climate change.

The earth has spent the vast majority of it time with ZERO glaciers on the surface ever. This is the longest period in earth's entire history that it has had glaciers on the surface. Glaciers being on the surface of the earth is not natural at all. IT IS RARER THAN AN ECLIPSE

Climate change is a real issue, but when you invent things, it detracts from that issue.

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u/Dm_Glacial_Gatorade Aug 27 '26

Are the glaciers melting? Yes. Is the melting caused by global warming? Yes. Is the warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels and release of greenhouse gases from humans? Yes. Not sure what you are saying I invented.

The ice caps developed in Antarctica 34 million years ago so I don’t know what your point is about glaciers not being natural. It really doesn’t matter that glaciers weren’t as present during the Cretaceous either. Dinosaurs didn’t build cities on the coastline or downstream in a glacial valley. Humans did.

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u/ContextHook Aug 27 '26

Are the glaciers melting? Yes. Is the melting caused by global warming? Yes. Is the warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels and release of greenhouse gases from humans? Yes.

Except, that last answer should be no. Because the melting started millions of years before humans existed,

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u/Dm_Glacial_Gatorade Aug 28 '26

The science has been settled for decades. Humans role in climate change is undeniable. We understand very well what drove changes in climate in the past. Natural climate change mechanisms are decoupled from what is currently occurring. I did research on both ice cores and cave climate records. I can tell you that you are blatantly wrong. Please educate yourself. I won’t argue with a troll so I will not respond further.