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15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century In Dire Climate Report (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do realize we are reliant on the climate to grow the food we eat and get the water we drink.. right?

What do you think will happen when those things come under strain?

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a lot of dangers to our civilization right now. The global debt bomb set to go off is going to be a problem in the next 10 years, but nobody seems to care about that despite the imminent and long lasting consequences.

Despite that, the threats people seem most concerned about are important but not imminent. There's a reason people are particularly worried about this thing among all the threats out there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The economy is a social construct. We could change the whole system if we really wanted to.

Our climate is a real, physical, thing. Just like the food we eat or the houses we live in. Destroying those things are far more irreversible, with far more consequences, than an economy that can be fixed.

It's like worrying about the economy while chopping down the last tree on an island.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

10 years is a stretch. 1-2 years max.