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With that kind of tomorrowist mindset it'll be too late. We need to make changes and we need to make them yesterday.
by moffkalast 3y ago
With that kind of tomorrowist mindset it'll be too late. We need to make changes and we need to make them yesterday.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoI wrote "we can choose how many terrible consequences we'll have". Do you think that I would choose "as many as possible"?
- moffkalast 3y agoLately it really seems like that's indeed the answer of those that we've entrusted to make our decisions for us. If it's never too late, then we never have to stop making profit from ecosystem destruction.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoLately it really seems that everybody is saying "It's too late, we're screwed, so let's not do anything and party like it's 1999".
- lapcat 3y agoThis is a misdiagnosis. Lamenting that it's too late is the complete opposite of partying like it's 1999. We're not having fun. It's the climate change denialists who are partying like it's 1999, pretending that nothing has changed, that there's not a problem, and that we don't need to do anything. They're the ones who are complacent. By the way, the lyrics of the song 1999 were very much tongue-in-cheek. Prince had a political streak, he had not given up on caring, and he wrote a number of other political songs, such as "Ronnie Talk to Russia", "Annie Christian", "Free", "America", and "Pop Life".
- bryanlarsen 3y agoI reflected your comment back to you for a reason. Any argument that starts with "It seems like you're saying" is a bad argument. The climate change denialists are hiding behind both of our arguments.
- lapcat 3y ago> I reflected your comment back to you for a reason. That wasn't my comment.
- feoren 3y agoSaying "it's not too late to do something" is more likely to effect change than saying "it's too late, climate change already happened, we're all fucked, good bye." I think you agree with GP here.