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Source is my depression, sense of powerlessness about the future, and listening to too much Bernie talking about what the 1% is going to do to the 99%. Logical
by labster 5y ago
Source is my depression, sense of powerlessness about the future, and listening to too much Bernie talking about what the 1% is going to do to the 99%.
Logically, I know this can’t be worse than the K-T boundary, where a whole continent of forests simultaneously caught fire, and a hypercane formed over the Yucatán. On the first day. But it sure feels that bad. We live in a world people flip out because one wolf was reintroduced to a broken ecosystem yet no one gives a shit about the million people a year who die from fossil fuel air pollution. That one’s real: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/fossil-fuel-combustion-kills-more-than-1-million-people-every-year-study-says/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/fossil-fuel-combusti...
- oarabbus_ 5y agoHumans today enjoy higher standards of living, increased access to food, water, medication, and shelter than any other time period in human history. There can high levels of inequality, yet this can still be true.