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Meanwhile in Germany:

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rational governments get that fossil fuels aren't going anywhere, coal and oil will stay just where they like they have for longer than humans have been a thing.

Capitalist societies tho... private companies own those fossil fuels rights and they want to sell as much as they can for as long as they can.

We should be planning centuries in advance, not a financial quarter at a time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Ha! “Planning”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That will require the end of capitalism first. We're kind of having an issue with abolishing that fast enough to save the planet.