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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Get ready for this headline every year.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    We already have it. Every year, we hit a new record in "hottest day of the year".

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Eventually they'll start reporting deaths instead of temps

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Covid showed that humanity doesn't really gives a shit about deaths either

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Tbf, they could have done something about covid. Not really a point in humanity's favor. But there's extremely little, really, that the average person can do about environmental collapse. I think it's natural that they just become accustomed to seeing the big numbers and gradually tune them out. Could be assholery. Could be helplessness transmuted into despairing apathy. But they're eventually going to stop reporting the deaths too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That’s a bit harsh, isn’t it? We had widespread lockdowns and other big measures. If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t have had those

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    We also had millions of people throwing the most embarrassing tantrums over covering their disgusting faces with a piece of cloth for a while. And those big measures weren't big enough it turned out. As a whole, I rate the humanity's response to a pandemic as "meh".

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