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Al Gore Is Still Sounding the Alarm About Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
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The former vice president will speak today on the topic, in advance of Climate Week and as President Trump lifts limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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[–] 32 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

Climate change is what makes the movie: "Project Hail Mary", unbelievable. There is absolutely fucking no way the world would come together and pool their ressources into a solution, for a problem that isn't directly felt within a year or 2. The leaders of the world have shown that hundreds of millions of people dying, and possibly billions of people becoming refugees due to climate change over the next 100-200 years doesn't fucking matter. At best we can hold a big meeting once per year, where every world leader attends by private plane, to eat expensive food flown in from the other side of the world, to promise to do better than the previous year, while doing absolutely fuck all for the next 364 days.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    The book addressed that area of thought much more in detail, but for starters the problem was more directly observable and promised near total extinction within a single lifetime.

    Secondly, humanity didn't come together in a kumbaya moment, many had to be forced to comply. The woman in charge of Hail Mary project was a monster who nuked antarctica and was sent to prison when it was all over.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    and then we re-elect them.. Green vote in Germany's recent election down 2.4%, AfD up 8%.

    Now the Greens are a bit too liberal (by necessity, or they be even more ignored then they are now) but the path to any level of sanity lies through them being able to move the Overton Window to the truly radical politicians we need.

    however, it's very possible we've already passed the point of no return, certainly by 2030-2035 we will have if we continue, as too many tipping points will be crossed to find a way back to a stable biosphere for millennia.

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