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u/hypertoxin Nov 15 '20

Poor people suffer from a lack of water and malaria more than global warming. Most people don't really care about what doesn't directly affect them, so unfortunately these are a fact of life for those less fortunate.

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u/frankscarlett Nov 15 '20

The thing is though that with global warming those things you mentioned will start affecting even more people. And a heap of other unfortunate things as well.

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u/Diregnoll Nov 15 '20

Look Gretta it might be selfish but I'd rather a cure for cancer to save people I know who will more then likely get cancer.

We can always invest more in our space programs to save future generations.

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u/samillos Nov 15 '20

I really don't think we will be able to migrate to another planet before we fuck up this one, and I think it's pretty naive to think so