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[–] 99 points 2 years ago (64 children)

That's an odd way to spell "what the insatiable greed of like seven corporations has done to us."

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I'm only in my thirties. I don't really think I had like..... A huge hand in all this.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    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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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    we didn't do shit. big oil companies on the other hand...

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    I feel it's time for people that care to start moving on the the acceptance phase of our future. Whether that is beginning to accept austerity in what we eat/wear/do and wait for the collective "we" to join us when they need to adapt more rapidly than we chose to, or if we give in and join the "it's already too late, let it burn" side.

    I try to stay positive, because I've always tried to conserve and be responsible, so it isn't too bad, but I feel bad for the next generation or 2 at least. They asked for this even less than we did. But I feel the sooner we get on acting like this is a done deal the better, because most people aren't going to care until they're hurting.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Pretty bad doomerism takes here.

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