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See: priority Something being a problem for someone doesn't mean it's a priority. Poor people will never prioritize global warming. They will always have more
by asu_thomas 3y ago
See: priority
Something being a problem for someone doesn't mean it's a priority.
Poor people will never prioritize global warming. They will always have more urgent priorities. This is one reason why environmentalism under capitalism is absolutely doomed.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoPoor people will never prioritize global warming. That's extremely funny. I'm dirt poor and gave up my car well over a decade ago, in part because I couldn't afford it anymore and in part because I'm an environmental studies major who takes environmental issues seriously. I'm not rich enough to afford to smoke cocaine to fuel my delusions and then buy a compound in New Zealand and a personal jet for getting there if my greed helps rapidly burn the world down while I imagine there's someplace safe to go after all the billionaires have destroyed the world in search of their own selfish gratification. So I make a LOT of pro environmental choices. I got no place to go and no money with which to go there.
- Xorakios 3y agofirst world arrogance - global definition of extreme poverty is $1.90/day, around $700 per year, scratching the dirt for food and water rather than going to college and not having a car https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI was homeless for nearly six years and I still go hungry at times.
- Gibbon1 3y ago> That's extremely funny. It's also funny because it assumes the global poor are too stupid to realize that global warming means they'll become victims of war, refugees, or starve (choose one or more).