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‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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If Mother Earth doesn't kill us, the ICE agents will.
ICE can't kill us all. The climate change our politicians and corporations are resolutely ignoring certainly can.
Even if they do pay attention to it, I think the global consensus is that it wouldn’t matter anyway… we are fucked.
That's not global consensus at all!
That's just what the "we don't want to do anything" crowd pivoted to saying, now that you can't flat out deny the problem anymore.
If it wasn’t the global consensus, green tech would be free, because saving the planet would be more important than profit. Closing down cruise ships, private jets, etc.
The amount of progress we have made is next to nil on a planetary scale.
It’s great to desire it gets figured out, but don’t get your hopes up.
If a country made green tech free, the United States would organize a coup to restore fascism or some other capitalist order loyal to the US.
The world lives in fear of the US military-industrial complex. Even the USSR and China are/were defined by their relationship to the US. The USSR existing under embargo and struggling to support a sufficient military to ward off the US, and China only becoming a comparable power to the US by letting itself become the industrial heart of capitalism for over 50 years.
I am not saying that all the world's woes are the US' fault, I'm saying that ever there is a place in the world without woe, the US is there to rectify that existential threat to its hegemony.
Maybe after the US has finished committing murder-suicide by fascism, those of us who are still alive can start building for the future rather than for profit without fear.