• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I believe most of us have accepted that we have already passed all the tipping points and at this point We’re fighting for damage control

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      11 months ago

      If we instinctually felt how dire this is, akin to the imminent danger of, like, a lion circling our huts, maybe we would rise up and do something.

      But we didn’t evolve to feel a true sense of urgency about abstract dangers that will happen in 30-100 years.

      We know we are fucked beyond belief. We know billions will die. We know 90%+ of the planet’s species will go extinct. We know we will live to see a barren wasteland of populated by suffering. Intellectually we know the horrors. Yet it feels more urgent to go to work and pay the bills and do our day to day things.

      Imagine if we felt the urgency to a point where we walked out of our jobs and did what we needed to do to force the change. Force companies to shut down. Ground all airplanes and dismantle cargo ships. Wrest control from the rich. Shut down coal plants. Etc.

      And then there’s the greedy bastards… Who would rather do anything to make money now than deal with anything tomorrow or anything that might hurt all of us.

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          Yes, it is. And the solutions are multi-tiered. And the tiers of solutions that would be reachable are defended against by conservatives who have been brainwashed for generations by corporate interests.

          Yes, it’s bigger than conservatives in just the U.S. too. Conservatives globally are the security layer that prevent every major solution from being attainable. To defeat the major pollutors and to legislate change globally, we must first defeat the corporations’ brainwashed henchmen, who are otherwise known as conservatives.

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            11 months ago

            The left is not exactly better or more effective, on a global scale. This is the real issue. sides are also really mostly relative. The right here (Scandinavian country) would be considered somewhere between socialist and communist in the us. Its not about sides. It’s about the lack of actions

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      11 months ago

      That’s what I was thinking. Once the permafrost thaw becomes self perpetuating, there’s no going back.