The Arctic region has been a massive store of carbon for thousands of years. Now it’s warming between 3 and 7 times faster than the global average and that carbon is escaping into our atmosphere. The latest research suggests that more than a third of it is now a net emitter! And in case you’re wondering…that’s NOT good!
Like said…people are too short sighted. The people in charge will be long dead before shit really hits the fan.
To be fair to the Boomers, there has been more change in the last 50 years then all of human history combined. Also, there are errors that even (especially?) the intelligentsia are prone to. Also, Rome fell as well - so even though it happened on their watch, wasn’t it inevitable, really?
Certainly I have made mistakes in my own personal lifetime, and I would hate to find out that ending civilization was one of them (but in fairness, it very well may be part of the issue). Like, what if 20 years from now, we were to find out that using Lemmy will have put an end to the freedom of people being able to use the Internet, bc of so many messages about Luigi that kept getting powerful people killed, so “they” start banning the protocol and going after it harder than they ever did piracy (which has always been more of a nudge wink just don’t let it get out of hand situation)?
All we can do is be as responsible as we know how to be.