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And so far, what have we done?
Pretty much nothing. We've done a lot of pretending with "let's recycle plastics", which them just get dumped anyway because fuck you, that's why.
We're slowly slowly moving to electrical cars instead of pushing hard for bicycles and public transportation. Profits over anything else!
We've implemented.next day deliveries, because THAT is important. Fuck your winter
The US just choose a climate change denier who put a guy in charge of the EPA that can't stop talk about pushing businesses and economy and oil.
The world is lead by narcissistic psychopaths and everyone just lets them.
I wanted to see that compared with global energy demand
Yeah, this graph shows it all. The previous looks impressive, this one looks depressing