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I don't think climate change is being ignored: AI, war profiteering, ICE, detention centers, destruction of the international system, global fascism are their a
by giraffe_lady 8mo ago
I don't think climate change is being ignored: AI, war profiteering, ICE, detention centers, destruction of the international system, global fascism are their answer to climate change.
It's not to prevent it, or to mitigate its damages, it's for the people who disproportionately caused it, and have already benefitted from it, to finalize their control over the resources they want. Some of those resources are some of us.
- georgemcbay 8mo agoAnd they aren't even really bothering to hide it anymore. A lot of Trump's seemingly odd obsessions like taking over Greenland and Canada are less odd (but still very unsettling) when you accept that the global power elite have already accepted that run-away climate change is inevitable and the only open questions are who is going to profit from it and how.
- slackfan 8mo ago[flagged]
- giraffe_lady 8mo ago“But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
- epgui 8mo agoThe rate of change is the issue sir. You can’t “aside” it.
- slackfan 8mo agoThen OP should do well to clarify.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoTBF the end state is probably also a bit of an issue. Just less so. More frequent higher energy storm systems would be economically detrimental.
- spankalee 8mo agoThis is it exactly. Russia and Canada are in the best position to possibly "benefit" from global warming. The US has Alaska, but if it wants more newly arable land in the future, the only options seem to be Greenland and Canada, the two places which Trump just so happens to be obsessed with annexing.
- surgical_fire 8mo agoYou don't have to worry about the future if you ensure there is no future.
- axus 8mo agoDisagree, the motives are the same with or without climate change. We're still at the slow part of the curve. Knowing what's coming doesn't change their behavior.
- beedeebeedee 8mo agoThere are also some people in power who believe climate change is related to the end of times and eagerly welcome it to hasten their idea of ‘Armageddon’
- Herring 8mo agoYou're giving them too much credit. They're just blindly seeking profit. Humans are not that good at planning longer than 6 months to 5 years out. The brain is legacy hardware, optimized for the Pleistocene epoch. Reward circuitry (Striatum) often overpowers logical simulation (Cortex).
- sebmellen 8mo agoThe other thing is, we can't stop. Someone always will outcompete you if you try to pause.
- Herring 8mo agoWhen you're stuck in a race to the bottom, the solution is to work together. Eg carbon taxes are quite effective. But that also requires being able to see far ahead.
- giraffe_lady 8mo ago"Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."