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Dont let global warming get you down, civilizations die all the time, just like that, why ours could wake up dead tomorrow.
by totetsu 3y ago
Dont let global warming get you down, civilizations die all the time, just like that, why ours could wake up dead tomorrow.
- enraged_camel 3y agoPart of me feels sad, part of me feels dread, and part of me says, "well, we're just reaping what we have been (and still are) sowing, and we collectively deserve all that is coming." All the suffering sucks though.
- scioto 3y agoThis is natural progression. The apex predator takes over and over-grazes the land, so to speak, to the point where it no longer supports the apex, so eventually the apex predator dies off, and the other species that are left can flourish.
- moffkalast 3y agoThe trick is to brake just early enough to hit the apex of the proverbial civilizational corner and come out accelerating until we straighten ourselves out.
- nprateem 3y agoOnly some are more culpable than others. The climate crisis represents the single biggest failure of humanity. How stupid do our leaders need to be to know about an extinction level event (or at least one that threatens the breakdown of civilisation) with > 50 years notice and take no substantive action? They should be charged for crimes against humanity.
- totetsu 3y agoSome people just want power and ego and status, some people just want things to be simple and not change from what they know, and a significantly smaller number of people just want to be chill and sensible.
- mistermann 3y agoSome conspiracy theorists warned people about the design of your political systems but no one seemed to think it's a legitimate concern. Time will tell I suppose.
- enraged_camel 3y agoThe blame doesn’t lie just with leaders though. It comes all the way from the bottom. Everyone wants their standard of life to improve, they want conveniences, luxuries, socioeconomic status… and they vote for policies that’ll give them those things. It’s a collective problem at a global scale.
- wolverine876 3y agoHow about another response: Do something about it. You're not a spectator; it's in your hands.
- jfengel 3y agoI just wish we didn't go down so stupidly. I could understand mere greed. I could even understand ordinary ignorance. Instead, we chose stupidity. The answers were right there. It wasn't a secret and it wasn't all that difficult. Instead people pretended it was a vast conspiracy against them, denying both basic physics and the data. We still debate why and how Rome fell, but they'll look back at us and say, "yeah, they were just a bunch of dumbfucks."