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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To watch climate change is to know what the deer in the headlights must feel.

Powerless to change alter fate and prevent our death, while being forced to watch it's screeching approach.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We wouldn't be powerless to change, though, if conservatives were not working tirelessly to prevent us from changing. Conservatives are holding the wheel and forcing us off the cliff. And they are mocking us as they kill us.

[–] Mnemnosyne 34 points 1 year ago

Deer usually have ample power to prevent their death; most of the time they have sufficient time to get out of the way, but they do not do so.

Which really makes the comparison even more on point, since as a whole our civilization could have taken action but chose not to.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We’re witnessing the birth of the new pasture lands the deer will graze on after humanity has been roasted off the planet.

Think positive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think there are deer on Antarctica, or any herbivores for that matter. It would be interesting to wait thousands of years and see what comes around to fill that niche.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There aren't any now

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're conveniently failing to mention the millions of people who will suffer and die with no fault of their own. This is not positive thinking, it's privilege and ignorace.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I think you're missing the joke of the above comment

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's positive for all the things that will thrive after humanity is gone.

So there's that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn’t conveniently fail to mention shit. I hate people and look forward to a lot of us dying from our own ecological mismanagement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Tell that to younger generations in developing countries - they have done nothing wrong and will suffer because of other's actions. It's debatable how much people like you and me - provided you are someone selling labor and consuming averagely living in a developed country like me - can do compared to highly emitting upper-class people, but we certainly can't just accept the consequences of climate change like it only affects us or we are the judges of letting it doom those least responsible but most affected.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Damn liberals, first we need to plant more trees now suddenly plants are bad for the environment? When will you snowflakes make up your mind /s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this-is-fine but it's flowers in Antarctica

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's just all the dead penguin-love saying "so long and thanks for all the fish".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this how alien plagues start?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't there supposed to be a cylinder, a green flash in the sky and a green mist?

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

That's when it calls home after finding a sustainable form for parasitic takeover. Right now the bacteria are just thawing out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So are these goddam communist scientists saying that penguins don’t deserve flowers?!?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well at least the apocalypse will be pretty

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The antarctic treaty expires in 2048. Just 25 years away...

[–] Draghetta 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

February 22

latest

We haven’t had signs for 18 months, that ain’t bad

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Draghetta 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah of course I wasn’t serious.

I was pointing out the silliness of referring to something that old as “latest”. This article was just necroed by unilad and suddenly it’s fresh news again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I see. Okay. Didn't notice that you weren't being serious. Thanks for the clarification.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

we'll just have to move to antarctica, problem solved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Antarctica right now

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

So are these goddam communist scientists saying that penguins don’t deserve flowers?!?!