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I’m sure this will spur society to prioritise the future viability of our species survival and the state of the environment over short term quarterly profits right? … right?
This and other jokes you can tell yourself
People won't care until it's in their backyard. A couple of ads from BP and they'll blame themselves a bit then start "recycling" their water bottles not knowing that recycling is bullshit.
most of australia's recycling ends up in Indonesia being melted down and thus polluting the environment anyway.
US trash used to go China, but now they don't take it anymore, so I don't know what landfill they threw it in
The problem is, it's already in our backyards. From record breaking forest fires, to record breaking heat, and record breaking droughts..
Every republican I've ever talked to says, “this is a normal climate cycle, and it happens throughout history”. It is like they were all taught the same thing.
hey, but how far does your backyard go? Don't you feel at least for your city, your country? Why not something bigger?
It goes as far as their backyard goes. There is a lot of "me me" in this world, my friend
There is also "us" which is a larger "me". Large problem like unintentional geoengineering needs large "us" to control and reverse. There are political implications of this kind of "us".
Nope, they'll just crank the AC even higher and get back to watching some "neckflis".
Better copy this comment in preparation to paste next year when we hit the hottest year again. May just create a bot myself to do so. I mean one of these days humanity will take it serious right????
Most companies do not optimize to exist long term. Another, longer lasting, entity needs to take charge of this. Like humanity itself, except it needs some organization, reflecting legitimate consenus. The problem is that it needs to be enforcable, and world govenment with punitive powers is not an unproblematic idea.
I think one big problem is that Earth has become too small, but this fact and it's implications did not quite get absorbed. People act on in instinctively by favoring space exploration, but it's pursued by most adventurous ones, and not in unproblematic ways.