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[+] -39 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Sure it is as much here as "acid rain" or ozone layer has right? Fuck off.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You mean the ozone hole that spurred quick international collaboration and resulted in effective regulations which banned the harmful compounds wherever possible, leading to a slow yet steady recovery?

    Wonder what's the difference compared to climate change. Oh well, if we keep increasing emissions surely things will get better!

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Same for acid rain btw. It is a real thing and causes real issues but after figuring that out regulations have reduced sulfur dioxide emissions.

    It's about as acidic as a cup of coffee so it won't melt your face off which I guess some people expected. In general I think the real effects we feel today just don't sound very threatening to people. Take the cocoa price exploding at the end of the last year for example. That was due to increasingly bad harvests that are getting more frequent with climate change. For western people it means chocolate gets very expensive and less real cocoa but more corn syrup ends up in products. For farmers in South America it means their livelihood is destroyed.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago*

    I love how you chose to ridicule acidic rain and ozone layer as both of those were real things thay spur international action and new legistation that worked.

    I dont know if you are a moron or a child so i decide to treat you as a child. When your papa or mama closes the blinds the world does not disappear behind the window.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Both of those were real things we fixed by curtailing the pollution most causing them, like coal burning for the acid rain, and all that other ozone depletion shit.

    And we still have all the same stuff. It just shows we can retool and corporations taking a one time hit of having to retool is not cause to systematically poison the earth to keep doing things the more damaging ways.

    And fuck those corporations anyway. They know what they are doing.

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