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WTF? Every country failing to act on an impending crisis is not good news, it's worse. Nature does not dole out milder climates to countries which pollute less
by zaptheimpaler 4y ago
WTF? Every country failing to act on an impending crisis is not good news, it's worse.
Nature does not dole out milder climates to countries which pollute less either. We're all in the same boat.
- wizofaus 4y agoAre you assuming the phrase "good company" is suggesting there's something praiseworthy about such a situation? It's just a figure of speech...
- zaptheimpaler 4y agoYeah, that is how I read it. Maybe not praiseworthy but at least as a sort of "well everybody does it so it must be ok" moral stance. Whereas climate change is an objective claim about nature as opposed to a moral imperative.
- wizofaus 4y agoCambridge specifically defines it as "to have the same problem as many other people", whereas US dictionaries tend to go with definitions suggesting the other people are "respected" or noteworthy, so perhaps it's a dialectical difference (I'm accustomed to both interpretations but assumed the former in this case).