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>Once voters realize that this would take personal cost for benefits they won't see in their lifetime, I can't see them willfully voting for any substantial rev
by eli_gottlieb 7y ago
>Once voters realize that this would take personal cost for benefits they won't see in their lifetime, I can't see them willfully voting for any substantial reversal.
Dying on a burning planet is a cost I expect to feel personally.
- MiroF 7y ago> Dying on a burning planet is a cost I expect to feel personally. But you understand that isn't how the science works, right?
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoNo, I legitimately thought that the food web was slowly collapsing from the bottom up while deforestation and desertification accelerate. I had thought we were either headed for starving to death or choking to death for lack of core biological dependencies (food and oxygen) once but no longer supplied by nature.