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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics (www.ipolitics.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by altasshet@lemmy.ca to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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The overall message here I think is: action is still necessary, but the reality is that we're too caught up in politics and economics and we missed our chance at mitigation. Now we need to look to how to cope with what's coming.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 19 points 1 year ago

We had like a hundred years to mitigate this, and we didn't. Had to run out of time at some point.

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