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> if we're serious about global warming and the overall health of the planet There’s a saying that when someone shows you who they are, believe them. It’s pre
by paulcole 4y ago
> if we're serious about global warming and the overall health of the planet
There’s a saying that when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
It’s pretty clear that “we” as humanity are not serious about global warming and the overall health of the planet.
Some of us are making gobs of money and think we’ll just be able to buy our kids the same great life we’ve had. Some of us are complacent and don’t worry too much about the future. Some of us are so desperate to survive today that we can’t think about tomorrow. Some of us realize it’s a lost cause.
“Fixing” global warming just isn’t going to happen. We spent the money we didn’t have over the past few decades and the bill is coming due soon. At this point it’s all about how we cope with a world that’s going to be unimaginable to many of the people alive today.
- Apocryphon 4y ago> “Fixing” global warming just isn’t going to happen. There will be likely last-ditch efforts from desperate governments and technocratic industrialists to do geoengineering, with all of the expense and potential blowback that entails.
- paulcole 4y agoSome attempt to darken the skies probably won’t happen in my lifetime but I sure wouldn’t want to be alive in 200 years.
- Apocryphon 4y agoMaybe the O’Neill colonies will be ready by then.