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Team Trees was like saying you're "helping" like a 5-year-old stopping a hurricane by playing in the sand with a teaspoon. Helping would be genetically modifyi
by sacnoradhq 3y ago
Team Trees was like saying you're "helping" like a 5-year-old stopping a hurricane by playing in the sand with a teaspoon.
Helping would be genetically modifying seaweed to need less iron and making 1000's of robotic seaweed processing and disposal platforms.
Helping would be globally banning all forms of fossil fuel extraction.
Helping would be ending animal agriculture.
Helping would be not pied pipering people into a phony social movement that doesn't bridge the reality gap free from logic and data.
Truth is hard to hear, but necessary. Paraphrasing Upton Sinclair: it is impossible to get someone to break through cognitive dissonance when it risks taking away their comfortable but omnicidally-unsustainable lifestyle. This is why climate change solutions cannot use democratic means, because people will never vote to put down their fork or cigarette even if they are dying from diabetes and losing their feet or breathing from an oxygen tank.