• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    Two types of people reading this:

    “Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage.”

    and

    “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

    And it’s the latter that got us here in the first place.

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      “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

      And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

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      It’s the parable of office pizza: some people take 1 slice because there are many people to feed.

      some people take 3 slices, because there are many people to feed.

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      It doesn’t make any difference what got us here in the first place. What matters now is what options are the best from now moving forward.

      These scientists seem to say that trying to reverse climate change isn’t the right path forward. I wonder why.

      edit: I wonder what makes them think that reversing climate change won’t work.

      Someone was so offended by their misreading of my comment that they went through and downvote-bombed every comment in my history.

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        What they’re saying is that trying to reverse climate change won’t be enough. It doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path, just that it won’t go far enough.

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        One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. – Hannah Arendt

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        Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.