That's an odd way to spell "what the insatiable greed of like seven corporations has done to us."
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I'm only in my thirties. I don't really think I had like..... A huge hand in all this.
Well it can't be the billionaires or the boomers, so it must be your fault.
This is what late stage capitalists actually believe
We should still try to do something, because it can become worse. So it's still an actual problem to make other people believe it's a thing...
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A single cruise ship does more damage in one day than 50 people who drive a car every day of their life until they die of old age. The idea that any one average Joe has had a hand in this is a massive and intentional corporate driven fallacy to keep the public unaware of just exactly what magnitude of damage a very small percentage of people are doing to the environment.
You're good dude. It's not your fault.
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I find articles like this so frustrating. It feels like it is aimed at being a wake-up call to the reader, but at the same time offers no solutions, no advice and still lays the blame at the feet of the average person for not doing enough. "What we have done to ourselves" is not advocate enough I guess?
Perhaps I'm not the target audience for the article. I grew up in an environmentally conscious home we'll before it was trendy and have been worried about climate change for as long as I can remember. It's hard to see an article like this as anything other than an effort to drive traffic...
I'd be happy to hear what others got out of the article if it was more positive than my read of it.
Climate despair is the new climate denial, and these doomer editorials are oil industry propaganda pivoting.
If we can't do anything about it then nothing has to change and rich people keep getting everything they want.
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My parents always act surprised when I tell them I don't think I'd want to have children.... Maybe I'm being negative, but if I had to guess this is only going to get worse and will never be fixed. I genuinely don't believe the next generation is going to have a decent future ahead of them.
As soon we start worrying about things other than money, we might actually have a chance, but as I get older I have more and more doubt that'll happen.
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we didn't do shit. big oil companies on the other hand...
And who exactly did oil companies sell their oil to? That's right. We. The stuff we buy the miles we travel the lives we live collectively are what creates greenhouse gas emissions. Can't blame an oil company for wanting to heat your home in winter or cool it in summer.
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"we"
We deserve everything that's coming We took this world to our graves, We made its creatures our slaves Shattered the hourglass, an un-erasable past Humans, Demons, deranged and depraved
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