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

do these absolute buffoons not know how important my crude portfolio is?

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We're in a hostage situation, and the captors own the government.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meh. I respectfully disagree. This is the system we designed. It's working exactly as intended. What we need is a sea change. The system is broken and that's evident everywhere. The path we are on doesn't work. The only way to course correct is for everyone to get on the same page and as is witnessed during the yearly COP meetings clearly the rich nations don't fully care about the poor countries. Things are changing but dreadfully slow.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    if we exceed the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.

    Pretty sure previous studies have already confirmed we're already blowing past 2°C even if we stopped producing CO2 today.

    Not to be too doomer about it but we're already too late to prevent centuries of damage. What we can do now is try and keep the ecosystem from becoming completely uninhabitable.

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

    Not to be pedantic, but the target is a ten year trailing average. It’s a crime that we’ve likely hit it for a year or two already, and that shows how urgent the problem is but we’ve still got 5 years or so

    Even worse carbon emissions haven’t yet peaked, much less started dropping, and way less quickly than they need to drop

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    That's not really how that works. The 2°C increase is a prediction of how average temperatures will increase based on already existing carbon in the atmosphere.

    If we stop emitting today, the average temperature will still increase beyond 2°C and stay there unless there's another force actively removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.

    This isn't "if we stop emitting today, we'll peak at 2°C increase and then it'll go back down" the 2°C prediction is a permanent increase to the average temperature.

    The damage is done. Millions will likely die regardless of how much carbon we put out from this point forward. The fight now is to decrease the people that will die beyond that number.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    If you still have hope that humanity will stop destroying (the human habitability of) our only habitat in the name of short-term private profit for humanity's most prolific sociopaths, at least share the kind of drugs you're on.

    "LINE MUST GO UP!"

    -Homo Sapien, ~200,000 BCE - ~2100 AD

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Accelerationists gotta accelerate, I guess. For the longest time it baffled me as to why anyone with intelligence would knowing act to destroy the planet and, with it, society. Then I learned about this shit called accelerationism and it all starts to make sense.

    We ARE in a hostage situation like someone commented, except we're on a bus, speeding toward a cliff, and the rich elite refuse to take their foot off the pedal. They think they're going to come out of societal collapse alive and poised to shape whatever comes next however they want. It's literally the game of Monopoly with that fucking speed die version...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Jokes on them, the earth can stay a boiling lava pit for longer than they can stay in their bunkers.

    Also, good luck trying to have people service and maintain your bunker system as you dictate their lives without any of them just trying to kill you.

    It would be so much easier to just admit they have to work with the poors to keep the earth alive so everyone can live than just wipe out humanity and think they can outlast it

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    It's not about the rich. No one cares, except for a small handful of people. The vast majority of people want to fly away on vacation, own a large home, have a crappy grass lawn, eat meat everyday. They see environmentalism as some sort of odd lifestyle. If you make a law that says they can't use gas lawn mowers, they'll scream and go bat shit insane, call you the devil. They are relentless in wanting to pave over anything living.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    me when i destroy the planet to get just 1 more green piece of paper that means jack shit in the grand scheme of things

    genuinely think money is an addiction to these big oil fucks

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It's a way of keeping score. They don't care where the money comes from any more, just that they have more than some other guy.

    People who care about people generally don't get rich, because they are kind and helpful people and will spend money on others.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    "Sorry, I'm freeing Palestine this election by posting on Instagram about it and not voting"

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

    Ok, so I am all about working to resolve climate change, very active in the movement even.

    But gosh golly gee, can we talk about that particular websites UI for a moment? I do not need a roll ad every 3 seconds. And I really do not need to know that one weird trick on how to get rats to like me.

    Again, all for the climate. I’m saying this as I just walked 45 minutes to go grab my lunch. Totally on board with more buses and trains. Big advocate of a Citizens Climate Lobby. Doing my part, hope you do too.

    Keep the rats the f away from me!

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Companies and billionaires when the only thing they care about are multicoloured laminated pieces of paper that basically mean nothing once someone's wealth is high enough:

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One can only hope actual intelligence rises from the ashes of the failed experiment of humanity.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    As conservatives cheer.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I've been doing my best, but we need to be investing money as a society into it.

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    I know right? The faster shit gets really really bad, the faster people will (hopefully) start building homemade guillotines.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    We have to hope things get better, because no matter how bad things get, they can always get worse. People will see things getting worse as evidence that it hasn't gotten worse enough. The idea that there is some point where it can get bad enough to spur positive change is false. The positive change that has happened in society originates from people wanting things to get better.

    We have to convince people to want things to get better, by showing them it can be better. Too many people are worried about losing the little they have. People have to see we can all be living more complete lives without harming the planet.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well since there's nothing I can do then I guess it's time to kick back and wait for the end of humanity. We had a good run.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can and you should (and you probably already do).

    Kick back and know that you're doing something, whatever it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nicely said.

    And even if we could do a bit more, why should we make more sacrifices, when big corporations are accountable for much of the environment's issues?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Why would a couple of fossile destroyers change their very lucrative business-model if millions of first world citizens are just as cheap, greedy and irresponsible as well? I'm pretty sure a lot of us would act very much like them, if we were put in their places. It's so easy to point fingers at the billionaires. As long as they don't change, why should I?! To be a better person, that's why! Fuck those psychopaths, stop consuming!

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