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3. Humans are notoriously terrible at internalizing future risk for consideration in context of the liability of their current actions. i.e. "I never thought i
by im_down_w_otp 7y ago
3. Humans are notoriously terrible at internalizing future risk for consideration in context of the liability of their current actions.
i.e. "I never thought it would happen to me."
- etxm 7y agoDoesn’t that acknowledge that they know it’ll happen eventually, even if it’s a few generations from now? Your username is fantastic by the way.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThis, but also: 4. Entire world is so addicted to oil that just shutting it off at this point is out of the question. We can blame oil companies and governments for not getting serious about transitioning away from oil, and yes, plenty of this is about money, but the reason such ridiculous amounts of money are involved is precisely because interruptions in supply are an existential threat to every country on the planet.