• Bottlenose dolphins in Gulf of Mexico test positive for fentanyl, other pharmaceuticals
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• In the Arctic, scientists are seeing changes that could have consequences for the whole planet
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• From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalized in 2024
• Long-term marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean killed some 4-million seabirds in Alaska, the largest bird-killing event in modern history
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• Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals
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• Climate takes its toll on the ‘cherry capital of the world’
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Don’t worry we’ll start from scratch again in 4 years. Thanks voters!
If you think picking between “smalldick energy, jesus, and prejudice”-flavored capitalism or “ineffective outrage, bare minimum to say were better than the other one”-flavored capitalism we are forced to pick between will do anything to reverse the legalized and ubiquitous corruption actively destroying our country and the world then you are the exact kind of dope they need to keep the system running entirely on wedge issues.
^This is the kind of guy that stopped us from having Gore. Imagine where we’d be.
I vote, I just don’t pretend like who we are allowed to vote for is the reason this country is going to burn down in a decade or two. Right about now voting is the same as protecting someone from hitting their head as they fall to the floor during a heart attack.
Not saying do nothing. These fuckers need to pay. But it’s already too late. Get your apocalypse plan together because by 2040 this world as we know it is over.
Honestly, yes. The time has passed. Even if we took enormous action immediately (which, spoiler, won’t happen), the damage is done and the impact will continue.
It makes me glad to be old. I’ll be gone, I hope, before the city I live in is washed away.
The solution is to protest. Stop businesses from doing business - the bigger the business, the louder the message. Make the money stop to make the changes needed.
If we could get the world to stop like it was the start of the pandemic, then the world can get a chance to heal. The next step to undoing the damage is carbon capture and carbon sinks. We have to find a way to remove the carbon and build a natural system to deal with it - forests work great for all of these. Grow nature, save the world.
General protests are worthless, yell and shout all you want they have no incentive to listen and thus they never will. We must give them incentive to listen, a sharp incentive, maybe on a like a blade on a rope in a wooden track, and maybe you put their head in it?
Violence is not the answer, we’re taught. Most people believe it, and heck, I’ve said it myself.
But you know what else isn’t the answer?
Peaceful picketing. Sending a letter to your Congresscritter. Going to meetings…
Good people have done all those things, without success since the 1960s — back when protests carried an undertone of “or else.”
What’s needed is more of “or else.”
I envy the optimism, but I think the oligarchs only allowed the COVID shutdown because it was temporary. What’s needed is a bigger, much bigger shutdown that’s permanent.
I wonder why paying to keep polluting the planet isn’t working 🤔
These collated lists are great. Keep them coming!
Those no good dolphins, using drugs instead of being a productive member of society. They probably don’t have a place to stay either.
Probably commies.
Are you arguing that unfettered corporate capitalism is the best approach?
Actually, I misread this. I read this as we cannot solve it by reigning in… My mind is a funny thing.
Pretty sure they’re saying that tearing down capitalism entirely is the only approach.
Huge-scale capitalism — Boeing and GM and Musk, et al — absolutely, but my home town diner isn’t doing any damage. Coffee and a cinnamon danish, please.
All businesses weren’t doing much damage until they got big enough to do damage. Capitalism isn’t so much the pursuit of capital in general as it is the pursuit of capital over all else. If your diner values giving customers a good meal as much as it values making a profit, it’s great! But if it follows the capitalistic method of squeezing all profit from the scenario, all else be damned, then it’s just a smaller version of all the major businesses.
Exactly.
(: Join me for flapjacks and coffee, and you’ll like the place as much as I do.
I think I can get behind that but do need more details about what replaces it and how.
Droughts and floods, rising sea levels, hurricanes and tornadoes, sweltering heat waves, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together — mass hysteria!
But yeah, we need more details about the alternatives.
… so does that mean we don’t have to rein in corporate capitalism then?
Cough cough
Itsa me … Luigi!
