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>history will remember Trump as the Neville Chamberlain of the climate catastrophe I'm not sure this is true, but not because the sentiment is wrong: It implie
by rev_bird 10y ago
>history will remember Trump as the Neville Chamberlain of the climate catastrophe
I'm not sure this is true, but not because the sentiment is wrong: It implies that at some point, climate change will be as universally recognized for its negative effects as Hitler is, and that people will go back to examine how it happened. I don't have a lot of faith in the U.S. to get to either of those points; if I've learned anything from this election, it's that we have an astounding capacity to look at all the facts and just say, "ah, no thanks."
- Pxtl 10y agoIt will take longer, but we'll get there eventually. Imagine 50 years from now the Global South becoming inhospitable and hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing flooding, heat waves, and drought. They'll look back on us and ask "what did they do when they had the best opportunity to stop this?"