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.

Al Gore: it's like Al Slop but worse.

I love AI gore

I'm glad to see you calling out that episode, as I was really confused by it when I was younger too. Al Gore wasn't in hysterics he was giving a boring power point presentation about a complicated topic. It just never sat right that they would make him out to be some kind of crackpot.

I'd argue that most people didn't want to go back to commuting at all but the owning class demanded it. The same people demand we build data centers now

When given the option the population chooses consume more every single time. When you ask voters if Climate change matters a super majority says it does but when they rank it alongside other issues its at the bottom of the list, with things that will pollute more higher in the list. Politicians are reading that signal correctly, consume the planet because all the caring is purely performative. When it comes to protests to try and change the situation most people find themselves wanting the disruption to end, and thus join the polluters side. They don't actually care and their own behaviour shows that they don't. Humanity doesn't have a future, we are going to shoot on through to the worst case scenario and extinction.

Yeah I have to say I have been a doomer for awhile and honestly global warming was not even on my radar till the aughts. I mean environmentalism for awhile but not specifically the co2 problem. Feels that way anyway. What gets me is despite my doomerism I did not realize how bad it would be with the rich/powerful going nuts hoarding and pushing for more use of fossil fuels. Its like if we had done the best we could since the start of the millenium we were in for a rough ride and we consistantly stick pretty close to worse case.

Yeah im kinda where you're at. As humans we know better but 99% of us just act like animals anyway. Just eat and consume as much as possible and fight anyone who gets in our way. That's basically what it comes down to, everyone knows burning oil and sending the smoke into the air is a bad idea long term, they just don't care.

Always wonder what that alternate timeline would look like

Don’t you think if sea levels rise people will just sell their homes and move?

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