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Moderation rules:
Rules will improve as it develops.
Anyone that knows humans knows this was going to be the outcome.
You can't get humans to work together unanimously to solve existential problems until the existential problem is at everyone's doorstep affecting them personally. And that method doesn't really work when it comes to climate change.
Great Filter, y'all.
The Great Filter was the iPhone.
It turned the internet into a money making propaganda machine that all the 'cool kid' were using.
Just to be clear, if we continue to do little to nothing, it will get much much worse yet.
We are going extinct, there will be no worse.
Phew, guess we are not getting enslaved by AI after all.
2010s were our last shot. If we had gone total net zero then across the planet, we might have slowed it down. I'm glad I didn't have kids. Food insecurity and habitat loss is going to worsen.
You mean when gen-x was giving up punk for boomer: part 2 mentality? All that 'recycle, save the planet, reduce waste' went out the window as soon as senior management positions were on the table.
To be clear, science settled that like 5 years ago, the politicians just finally admitted they did nothing and were all out of ideas so yes, the sky is blue and man-made global warming is going to have ugly consequences. Yes, uglier than we've already experienced. May the odds be ever in your favour.
Yep, even if we (humans) started doing everything right today, we'll still be deteriorating for years. That is my very limited understanding.
Canadians might not lead the way on deaths by starvation in the coming years, but we are all on this ball together. It is our duty to act to prevent this disaster, and as a relatively young and relatively wealthy nation I would say our proportion of that duty should be greater than simply our percentage of causing it.
I don't know that we should feel like it's our duty to take a bigger share. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take responsibility for doing so anyway. The difference there is subtle, but I think it's a bit like the duty of care a doctor has for an injured patient. We're not at fault for the injury, but we choose to take responsibility for making the patient whole to the best of our ability. Taking responsibility doesn't mean taking more than our share of accountability. Stepping up because someone has to, and we can, is about doing the right thing because we care about the dignity of our cousins everywhere, and we care about seeing the right thing done whether or not we owe it to anyone.
That's what it means to be Canadian. We're not polite because we have to be or because we owe people something. We're polite because we believe everyone deserves to be treated with dignity until proven otherwise, and we choose every day to be responsible for making that happen. That's the Canadian spirit.
If we'd done some very minor and conservative things back in the 90s when we all were told this was coming we could've prevented it.
Yes, but how does preventing a problem 20 years in the future impact this quarter's profits and my bonus?
/S (I hope that should be obvious...)
Nothing will stop unless advertisers are prevented from indoctrinating people to believe they are entitled to such things as vehicles and other mass produced goods. Humans are not naturally mass consumers like this, we are being taught, from a very young age, to treat the earth like a dumpster.
Not sure who the mad lad is that downvoted your common sense statement, but hopefully they get a better education.
You are right. We are not meant to consume the way we do. It isn't sustainable. As an American I can confirm this culture promotes getting rid of things the moment they break without trying to repair them or even just when they feel old.
It sickens me. I use things until they break and then I open them up and see if I can fix them, and you'd be surprised how often you can.
In Toronto, Doug Ford is about to rip out bike lanes in a misguided attempt to improve traffic congestion. There is currently no evidence that the bike lanes made traffic worse and there is strong evidence that induced demand will return traffic congestion to pre-bike lane removal levels fairly quickly. Advertising preys on stupidity, but we’ve also got a stupidity problem.