Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn

themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “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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  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But but but… It’s because immigrants

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• houstoneulers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And industrialists!

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• badbytes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • blurg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean why think it won’t work.

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      • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The article is literally right there. Why are you being weird about this?

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two types of people reading this, the cannibals, and the cannibees

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And now I’m just picturing myself cracking open a can of beer only for bees to start flying out!

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