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by esarbe 5y ago
Of course they will be. That's just what happened during the Syrian civil war; the refugees were welcomed with open arms in Europe, Germany didn't experience any political turmoil that reverberates to this day at all. I guess I&#x
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by esarbe 5y ago
So, it's war, then?
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by esarbe 5y ago
If it really comes to the point where geoengineering becomes a serious consideration we are - in my opinion - already royally fucked sideways. If we cannot even agree on simply cutting fossil fuels, how on earth can we ever agree on large s
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by esarbe 5y ago
And it's still number one per capita. There's a long way to go and no laurels to rest on.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> So in a broader sense, we don't know what will happen, even if the models are sufficiently accurate. I'm not really sure if this is tongue-in-cheek, if you're just trolling or if that's a serious argument. I'll
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's right. In a democracy, a rich person can always vote more often than a poor one. Perfect democracy. Sorry, that was a bit sarcastic. Obviously, the market is not a form of direct democracy. It's a form of resource allocatio
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm really afraid off. By the time the shit hits the fan, everyone will be so desperate, they will try everything. I'm pretty sure that kind of techo-utopian fantasy is part of the reason why people are so r
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Not an intentional conspiracy or anything, just a systemic natural response to the pressure of not wanting to be raked across the coals in the media as the "crazy". Well, I'm pretty sure the monies spent by certain globa
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by esarbe 5y ago
> already believer Hrm. So, if one follows the scientific consensus[0] and actually takes into consideration the political and social consequences of the scientific consensus one is a ... believer? I think at that point, you really have
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by esarbe 5y ago
Well, since 'global warming' is only concerned about the damage resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, that term is not to bad, actually. I like 'global warming' much better than the 'green'washed term '
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by esarbe 5y ago
I'm very happy to see that the danger of climate change finally is being takes (somewhat) serious. We have known for the last fifty years that we are doing serious harm to our ecosystem and will run into disaster if we don't stop
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What 3°C of global warming looks like(economist.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
Monarch butterflies are nice and such, but let's not take this as an indication that everything is hunky-dory. The world's still going to hell in a hand basket if we don't address the predatory ecosystem exploitation that&#x2
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by esarbe 5y ago
Well, the breeding patterns of single species fluctuate very much. Global warming could be an issue, could not be an issue here. In the long run, global warming will definitively wreck havoc, so; still bad news.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Nope, it's just that for people it's easy to just focus on a few species instead of the whole web. It also allows people to think "Yeah, that one particular species had a good year, so everything is fine and we can go back to
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by esarbe 5y ago
What the heck is 'green capitalism' supposed to be?
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by esarbe 5y ago
Let's face it; nobody is going to stop killing the planet just out of the goodness of their hearts. The incentives to do so are just too strong. It's the perfect tragedy of the commons; as a person living in an industrialized nati
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by esarbe 5y ago
Self-driving vehicles will do nothing to change the world. They will instead further entrench the automobile as the default mode of transportation and we'll continue to have human-hostile cities that are focused at getting people from
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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words(theconversation.com)
5 points by esarbe 5y ago|2 comments
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by esarbe 5y ago
Here's some more context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_Agrio_oil_field
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A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet(news.mongabay.com)
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Climate change: Human activity makes forests emit carbon(bbc.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
Or a socialist, which is equally bad. Isn't it interesting how the moneyed classes successfully arranged for the workers of each nation to despise each other while still being able to exploit all? Classic!
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's actually a good point. I'm quite against international economic integration since it usually ends in exploitation, stratification and social de-integration. But you've got a point with regards to physical warfare.
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World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds(theguardian.com)
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A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet(news.mongabay.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
This company should have been broken up long ago.
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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words(theconversation.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
This sounds like it was very badly executed. No wonder people are unhappy. I'm terribly sorry you don't get to enjoy a car-less city as well. Let's hope that with renewed efforts come better successes.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I absolutely agree. To me, these are two sides of the same coin; candidates are recruited from the pool of voters and since the voters are not interested anymore, there are fewer and fewer candidates. I struggle to understand why. I have so

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