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Remember when 30° was considered tropical? (lemmy.today)
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[–] 102 points 4 months ago (8 children)

They are in complete denial. Imagine approaching death right as it's impossible to deny your generation personally fucked up the future of civilization itself.

In my experience you now get one of: 1. The weather has always been like this, 2. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop, 3. Oh well, I'll be dead soon so it's not my problem.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago* (5 children)
    1. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop

    Everything I could, except vote for representatives who prioritize climate over line-go-up

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Did those exist? I don't quite remember anyone in my country who had climate in their agenda (not even now, afaik)

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Don't know where you're from but i bet there is a green party in your country that got like 1% of the votes in the last election.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is GreenPeace that was outlawed this year, but yes there is a green party, it only once reached 1% and they hold 0.1% of seats in regional governments, so they existed indeed. I never thought of this as a way to do something about the issue. On the downside they have a pretty bad stance on everything else, and even the green position is not very consistent

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    In a de facto two party system it certainly can feel like a spoiler vote, however a single issue party can be highly influential in getting larger parties to adopt better positions on those single issues in order to avoid having votes syphoned away. In a truely multiparty system, a single issue party can directly extract concessions if they end up as part of a coalition government or are in a king-maker situation following an election.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Imagine approaching death right as it’s impossible to deny your generation personally fucked up the future of civilization itself.

    Point to a decade where someone wasn't thinking this as they expired.

    You don't have to confine yourself to the 21st century. Or even the 20th. Or even the last 500 years. Literally pick any decade.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Except that I'm talking about feeling personally that you were part of the problem.

    Joe Blow was not feeling personally guilty about nuclear weapons. Or felt like they personally caused the war. Or that the economic crash was their fault.

    Do you know how many people, particularly boomers, spent literally decades denying climate change, while obviously not participating in efforts against it?

    If I'm an old white boomer who spent the last 15 years making my whole identity a Ford F-350 and Fuck Biden / Fuck Trudeau bumper stickers, I heart oil, i heart beef, i heart anything that a liberal hates.....I might be feeling a bit uneasy about some of my stances while I'm watching the world burn. Then again, let's face it.... the ones who did the most damage are the least likely to even be capable of understanding how dire things are, even when they're staring it in the face.....

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