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‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

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You need to look for hope outside of the physical material realm.

For example, people can care more, write more beautiful books and plays, invent a super cool new game that's better than chess, come up with all kinds of wonderful creative stuff...there is no limit to human empathy, meaning, quality of experience etc.

Like, right now in the united states around 60% of the population is semi illiterate and most people are uneducated. There is an absolute ton of progress that can be made on the human development side. There is almost an endless number of things that need someone to care about them.

A lot of our "stuff" doesn't make us happy, it's just dopamine.

Things could be so much better if we could slow down.

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