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[–] 73 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I just told my kid about how we fixed acid rain through regulation just this morning

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago* (11 children)

    Well it's understandable, the concept of being able to actually cooperate and do something about the environment on a world scale instead of just blindly pretending it's not a thing until it kills us all is a bit hard to believe for younger generations for obvious reasons.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    I don't understand, why would it sound implausible? Isn't that what governments are FOR?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Not when all governments have been captured by oil tycoons it isn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oh. But they were good for this before that, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    The banning of CFCs due to their environmental impacts, retooling the aerosol and refrigerant industries, is what it looks like when we have a functioning world society.

    There are adults now who were born after that and don't remember a time when we could behave that way, so they have every right to be cynical.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    But government BAD! Taxes BAD!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I know, the government is bad, so if we put a bad man in charge it’ll be a double negative and become good, right?

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