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How to say Marx was right without saying "Marx was right".

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hunker down while growing the world's population!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, Trump just put all our climate mitigation funds into big oil. We’re cooked.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Giving up is exactly where the "too late" come from, quitter shouldn't be leading climate advocacy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I mean...the next steps involves lots of fire and death...so...that's not going to save the environment either but it will certainly send a message.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

🔥🔥 This is fine 🔥🔥

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

How to say Marx was right without saying "Marx was right".

Hard disagree, this is a liberal doing the usual thing. As John Bellamy Foster elaborates on in his articles and books, the fight against climate change isn't lost, it's been abandoned by the ruling class of imperial core countries. Look up some of his stuff on Monthly Review the ecological rift is a very important concept that never appears in the kind of discourse you're posting

[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Let's be clear about something; climate scientists almost universally agree that there is no such thing as "winning" or "losing" the fight against climate change (Suzuki, for the record, is a zoologist, not a climate scientist). This isn't a game, there's no referee, and no one gets a trophy at the end.

The battle against climate change is about mitigating harm. The worse we do, the more harm there will be. But there is never a point where it is "too late". The car is going to crash, but the sooner you hit the brakes, the less damaging the impact will be. Everything we do to push the needle will save lives. There is never a point where we get to throw up our hands and succumb to the comforting fantasy that it's "too late" to change anything.

I have a lot of respect for Suzuki, and I don't blame him for feeling defeated with everything that's happening, but spreading this kind of message is, dangerous, damaging, and flies entirely in the face of the science.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back before George W Bush directed NASA to call it climate change, it was called global warming, and you can definitely win against that - by stopping the earth from warming. That's unwinnable due to feedback loops that have now begun.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I gave up a long time ago. The last time we really did anything about an issue like this was lead in gasoline. 50+ years of knowing we had to change. I wonder if maybe the wealthy elites know whats coming. I wonder if this new rise in facism is partially an answer to the fact that there won't be enough of anything to go around. That is why they want us having babies. for soliders. I hope they have some spark of humanity and let people self terminate but I bet you would need money for it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just wanted to add that maybe the last thing that we did for the environment and that really worked was for acid rain in 1991. At least where I live.

A few years before that there was the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs and helped to heal the hole in the ozone layer. I think.

But yeah, I don't remember anything of the sort recently,

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

What about ozone layer?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuinely seen conspiracy theorists say "they removed lead paint to that they can control you with 5g"

If we still had lead gasoline, people would say you can pry it out of their cold dead hands

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure that's what the grab for Ukraine and Trump's stated intent to annex Greenland is about. Both of those have the potential to become food security sources after significant global heating. I'm also pretty sure that's why authoritarians are seizing control of govt (and by extension that govts security services) because there won't be enough to go around and they're going to need soldiers to keep the hungry people away from their billionaire breadbaskets.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Lol yup, trump also went all in on climate denial. Definitely fucked.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So, how long do we have left?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Collapse is a process, not an event." It's very likely we'll be extinct by the end of the century. There will be all manner of hell from now until then. Our population of over 8 billion is only possible because of a highly complex global web of systems. Complex systems are fragile. Once dominos start falling, people will start starving very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Its entirely possible that 99% of humanity dies but I don't really buy into us going extinct. People have an inate drive to survive and even if things are genuinely horrible I don't see them just giving up. Unless there is literally no food/potable water I think the planet is stuck with some form of humanity until the planet is uninhabitable. Remember there are still dinosaurs around today, they just look different.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This guy says climate change mitigation will be a blip on the radar of economic growth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfNamRmje-s

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No one knows, many humans and other species are already dying from climate change today. Get used to hearing the phrase "It is happening much faster than expected." from now on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm curious if we will hit a correctional point when most of life dies off and civilization can restart. I'm picturing some fallout/metro kind of shit where people need to love underground for centuries.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Guess people better start updating their plans then. No point in starting a family and having kids when they'll just die to climate change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People are doing that. Fertility rates are way below replacement rates. Now billionaires are freaking out that their customer base and work force is shrinking.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I am way ahead of you.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

@asg101 I agree we've lost the opportunity and will have to "hunker down". But hearing it from David Suzuki is...hard.

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