• themeatbridge
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    2242 months ago

    Two types of people reading this:

    “Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage.”

    and

    “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

    And it’s the latter that got us here in the first place.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      582 months ago

      “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

      And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

      • @BeatTakeshi
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        But but but… It’s because immigrants. And trans somehow idk

        • @SlopppyEngineer
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          102 months ago

          It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

    • @[email protected]
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      292 months ago

      It’s the parable of office pizza: some people take 1 slice because there are many people to feed.

      some people take 3 slices, because there are many people to feed.

    • @badbytes
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      162 months ago

      Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes.

    • @[email protected]
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      It doesn’t make any difference what got us here in the first place. What matters now is what options are the best from now moving forward.

      These scientists seem to say that trying to reverse climate change isn’t the right path forward. I wonder why.

      edit: I wonder what makes them think that reversing climate change won’t work.

      Someone was so offended by their misreading of my comment that they went through and downvote-bombed every comment in my history.

      • themeatbridge
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        132 months ago

        What they’re saying is that trying to reverse climate change won’t be enough. It doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path, just that it won’t go far enough.

      • @blurg
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        82 months ago

        One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. – Hannah Arendt

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.

    • @Agent641
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      82 months ago

      Two types of people reading this, the cannibals, and the cannibees

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        42 months ago

        And now I’m just picturing myself cracking open a can of beer only for bees to start flying out!