The path we are going is just doubling down on that future. Even if transitioning and slowing our impacts won’t fix things, it could help slow the changes down to a more manageable pace. Doubling down on burning more oil, and overall more consumption, could increase the rate the climate is changing at. It could overwhelm garbage and recycling capacity (this is already true in many places or sectors).
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OpenStars@piefed.social 1 month ago
Worse yet, what's happening in the USA is happening all around the globe, to varying degrees. Elections being "influenced" by alternative information campaigns, the rise of authoritarianism, etc.
And worst of all is what's behind all of it, arguably the chief component being that ultimately climate change is going to radically reshape the world, along with the forces of automation and globalization but that one in undeniably bad ways with an even rougher transition process. Neo-liberalism in most nations did not care, not truly in the sense of actually doing anything rather than merely paying lip service to caring.
TLDR: we FA, now we get to FO what that means.
At least we don't have to do it alone, here on the (Threadi-)Verse 😁.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love that Romania declared its elections invalid because the winner had obviously been put there by Russia. Which is exactly what the US and the Netherlands should have done.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
There’s no evidence afaik for extensive Russian meddling in the Dutch elections. Our electoral system makes it difficult for foreign meddling to have any extensive impact. The far-right hasn’t really grown much here, it consolidated into a single party. They’re also not explicitly pro-Russia either.
They’re stuck in a coalition government with three other parties and really haven’t made much of an impact at all.