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And they know how to fucking fix it but don't want to
It'd be like if in the movie Armageddon the government just said "Eh let's see if it really will be that bad if it hits us"
So Don't Look Up.
That movie felt way too real watching it.
Yes but without the part where they tried
We haven't gotten to that point yet
Without some sort of violent revolution, we won't, or time runs out but it's not a movie and there's no ship to another planet.
Great. That's exactly what we need now - more violence
Revolutions take over where reason stops. The people in power have the means to do the right thing, but sometimes they look out for a few people and will destroy thousands. That's not a good option, as people get more desperate
Climate change is not something that has a simple solution to it and governments just refuse to do so for whatever reason. That's a naive view that ignores all the complexity of this issue.
For example: stopping all carbon emissions is not going to stop climate change. Not only do you need to become carbon-neutral but you also need to get all the excessive carbon out of the atmosphere. How?
Why the extreme? Cutting back and investing in things that are better should be a mandate, not an idea or option. And certainly we cannot allow an administration to roll things backwards just because someone ~~bribed them~~ donated to their campaign
If there's ever a time when it's justified, it's when our very existence is at stake.
Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity
To humanity? Probably not. To billions of people? Definitely yes.
This is because you're not sorting your recycling!
"We could do something about the asteroid, but think of the harm doing something could do to the shareholders!?"
I was going to save humanity but I have a responsibility to a handful of shareholders that yell at me in meetings so... You can really see how hard this is for me
It's actually kind of too late now.
But, we may be able to prevent more bad stuff happening if we change things today!
IDK, I mean we know it's to do with carbon but we don't really know how to stop producing that in a timely manner.
Yes we do. Carbon tax.
Carbon is causing global warming. We know how to fix global warming because we are causing it, we just have to stop doing it.
This article is about global cooling which is bizarre and not something we expected would be happening. We haven't got a clue why it's doing that. It maybe natural, or it maybe it's something we've done in a complicated way, but we don't know so we don't know how to fix it.
If this is just an ice age why may as well burn all the coal now to try and stave it off.
Although in reality I think this needs a lot more research before we do anything because this announcement makes no sense within our current understanding of the environmental science.
Umm, no. Go read it again.
Global warming shuts off the current, so the warm air doesn’t shuttle north, causing local cooling, not global