Does “we’re all fucked” sound like an underestimation to you?
If only CO2’s warming properties had been discovered in 1856. If only good models of global warming had been created in 1896. If only those had happened, maybe society could have taken more substantial actions…
Yup
i don’t think most people are laboring under the illusion that the world will be okay, just the illusion that they and their local community will be okay
If by ‘we’ you mean the billionaires and political leaders in a position to do something, then absolutely.
We are voting for and consuming from those saboteurs. We could do otherwise AND incite something else.
Who is “we”, my friend?
People with active/passive voting rights and above global average purchasing power: People in stable representative democracies with market-based economies.
I think it’s more likely that they understand climate change much better than the average Joe. They just know it won’t affect them as much and as soon as it will the average Joe.
In a word, yes
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Yup.
Uh, yeah?
Probably. We’re clearly avoidant on this topic.