• IninewCrow
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    198 months ago

    Not until any of this directly impacts people, like with famine, water scarcity, war, or panic from civilization collapse … no one will care about what’s going on with the world’s oceans.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      188 months ago

      And then they’ll beg their leaders to do what can no longer be done. One of the reasons we’re heading down a very bad timeline is that many people really don’t seem to get the notion of a problem that must be fixed before its effects hit, and can’t be fixed once the effects are felt.

      • Rayquetzalcoatl
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        128 months ago

        Aren’t people already begging leaders to help? But they’re not listening?

          • @Nudding
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            48 months ago

            Maybe when one of Taylor Swift’s vacation homes gets swept away we’ll see some legislation passed about tires or some bullshit.

            • @[email protected]
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              -28 months ago

              I just want to say, when I saw you were obsessed with Taylor Swift I immediately clicked to see if you’re a maga idiot. You do not disappoint at all.

              • @Nudding
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                28 months ago

                Lmao obsessed with Swift am I? Maga idiot? I’ll send you $100 if you can find 5 comments with Taylor Swift’s name in them or one positive comment about trump, in my post history.

                You guys sure aren’t big on reading.

                • @andrewta
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                  28 months ago

                  I just scrolled a long way back in your comment history and yeah I’m not sure where he’s getting those ideas from.

                  • @Nudding
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                    08 months ago

                    There are stupid people on both sides of the aisle im afraid. Reactionaries Aplenty

    • @Augustiner
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      128 months ago

      It already does. Just not so much in the countries that are most responsible for the pollution.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        Western nations will realize it soon enough.

        “What surprised us was the rate at which tipping occurs,” said the paper’s lead author, René van Westen, of Utrecht University. “It will be devastating.”