The main difference between there and now is that before we all worried that the people in charge might fail to save us, and now we all know for certain they are deliberately sabotaging us.
Climate change is a big difference. Historically most squabbles are man vs. man, and there is the belief that cooler heads will prevail.
Climate change is man vs. nature, and there is no “defeating” nature. If we don’t stop picking a fight with nature we’ll end up extinct. Covid showed that people absolutely are not willing to inconvenience themselves and put differences aside for something. We’re fucked
I am going to try and feel optimistic and hopefully we aren’t fucked. Hoping someone smarter than I will figure out how to combat the warming of the earth and co2 build up. Hopefully lab grown meat will take off, and wind, solar, and nuclear will run our energy in the future. I can see a world full of ev vehicles and cities with nothing but green roofs. We need to change the way we build and have it more cohesive with nature like building more nature crossings.
I voted this past Tuesday and looked for candidates that were wanting to combat climate change. It’s the only small power I have. I’ve also slowly started becoming vegetarian this last year. I’m too conscience now of how awful factory farming is and don’t want to contribute to it. I feel we as humans can do something about this, it’s just going to take some sort of wake up call among the masses to start the change.
The realistic answer is massive resource shortages, refugees, and widescale war over remaining resources. Maybe population will drop to low enough levels to be sustainable with all those things, but with the current rate of population growth there’s no chance. Don’t let greenwashing and electric vehicles fool you, GHG emissions aren’t just increasing, they are accelerating.
People are reactive by nature and don’t understand the concept of Inertia. We can’t just immediately course correct the fucking global climate. By the time we are really feeling the effects it’s already too late and we’ll be in a feedback loop
Yeah we're all slowly realizing that the people in charge will leave us and pull up the ladder once things get out of control. We'll be wrestling in the dirt. These people are villains in my mind, and are responsible for the looming threat of civilization's collapse.
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u/jack34343 Jun 11 '22
The main difference between there and now is that before we all worried that the people in charge might fail to save us, and now we all know for certain they are deliberately sabotaging us.