• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Two types of people reading this:

    “Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage.”

    and

    “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

    And it’s the latter that got us here in the first place.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      34 minutes ago

      “Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

      And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      19 minutes ago

      It doesn’t make any difference what got us here in the first place. What matters now is what options are the best from now moving forward.

      These scientists seem to say that trying to reverse climate change isn’t the right path forward. I wonder why.