“If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species and then with a sudden vengeance.”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Simply put … we won’t … because the Climate Crisis will stop us.

    We don’t do anything until we get to the point where we will be forced to act because our collective survival will be directly and immediately threatened.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    courage to stop the climate crisis? we can’t even convince people to curb their exhaust output, and allow idiots to drive around alone in giant jacked up trucks because they’re compensating for <whatever>

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    Whenever were asked at a voting booth to select a move towards doing something, we chose the opposite.

    Surely it’s clear by now we give no fucks beyond a modicum of pearl clutching ? We’re still flying and driving cars, catching cruise ships, pleasure water craft, private jets blah blah blah

    Four panel cartoon showing a male climate scientist talking to a woman who implores him to give her hope, he explains emissions need to be cut drastically and tells her she can help by riding a bicycle, she responds by saying she'd rather die.