r/BlackPeopleTwitter 13h ago

One would think this would matter more

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u/TropicGemini 13h ago

News media is very "Don't Look Up" right now

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u/herewearefornow 13h ago

Very good movie. Much like the future people from the Tenet plot.

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u/print0002 12h ago

Nah the movie was trash.

The point it's trying to make is absolutely valid, but as a movie it falls hella flat and is just goofy

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u/punchanaziisethical 11h ago

We're one of if not the only super power in the world that isnt taking steps towards preparing for a future severely impacted by climate change. China is preparing, Europe is preparing, idk about India but they would be wise too before a billion are forced out of now unlivable land.

The technofacist billionares are using our country to slide past other countries attempts at preparing for the future while simultaneously using our country to MAKE SURE the climate apocalypse happens. Not just making sure we don't just future proof. Ensuring the apocalypse. So they can ride it out and somehow rule over the vestiges of humanity that did survive.

Even if the whole world gets on board tomorrow to eliminate fossil fuels etc. If the US and Israel just says no like they have for the past 50-60 years the whole world is proper fucked.

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u/ahhhbiscuits 7h ago

Infinite growth, protect the shareholder, create "growth" for the sole purpose of accruing power and making money... since WW2 that's what America is.

They don't think they'll rule over the ashes because they can't think beyond what American culture has taught them. They think the world will be greater because of them.

The people that dictate how our world will move forward don't have an incentive to think in any other way.

tldr: American culture is cancer

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u/CheaterSaysWhat 7h ago

It literally is cancer, couldn’t have said it better  

Cancer is what happens when cells start trying to grow infinitely and hoard all the resources of the body

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u/Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz 5h ago

We've spent two centuries begging the world's richest to come here, invest here, put down roots here, and now we're shocked- shocked- to find that our nation stands out as being self-destructively protective of the rich.

u/GROUND45 1h ago

They’re all building bunkers and getaway homes in my country(New Zealand). The masses beed to do something about those mfs.

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u/jhustla 12h ago

That movie gave me the first nightmare I’ve had since elementary school. It gets scarier every day

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u/exgiexpcv 11h ago

It appears that they're mostly owned by right-wing oligarchs now.

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u/PassThatSpliff 13h ago edited 5h ago

Well no because you still have ignorant idiots believing rich people saying climate change doesnt exist.

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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 13h ago

Watching what wet bulb temperatures do to the south and midwest is gonna be better than seeing all those Herman Caine awards they got during covid

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 13h ago

I live in the south, believe in climate change, and don't vibe with this lol

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u/GuntherTime 13h ago

In the Midwest, also believe in climate change. Stepped outside to 85 degree temp with a 78% humidity and had to take off my glasses because they instantly fogged up. I don’t like this as at all lol.

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u/MozartDroppinLoads 12h ago

There's a chance it will be literally uninhabitable by humans within a few decades

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 12h ago

Well I'll be dead in a few decades ,so that doesn't matter much to me personally. But the attitude that the entire south deserves climactic ruin is.....misguided at best.

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u/BoPeepElGrande 11h ago

Thank you. Thirsting for the collective punishment of entire regions is patently wrong. It’s Trumpian behavior.

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u/Enachtigal 10h ago

I think the attitude that the entire south deserves climactic ruin is 100% fair because they spent decades voting for climactic ruin, and continue to do so well beyond when even thin plausibly deniability existed.

Agree that being excited for an incomprehensible amount of wide scale human suffering is fucked up. But I am also not going to sit here and pretend like this is anything other than the direct consequences of their actions.

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 10h ago

No, "they" all didn't. People who voted for different things also live here, sometimes without a choice. Its just a bad take, no disrespect.

Edit: voting in the South has never been fair or equitable to minorities. Just think about it from that context, because that's who's going to suffer the most.

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u/Enachtigal 9h ago

Look, I am not going to get into a debate about theories of governance and the responsibility of the people to take drastic action to protect society so I will put it this way. As someone not willing to give up my current standard of living and/or die to try and kill fascism in the cradle, but still painfully aware of the repercussions of allowing fascism to take root, I accept that as a human person with agency, inaction is also making a choice.

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 9h ago

Where's the inaction though? I just explained how people who don't make the "negative" choices, and could be doing EVERYTHING in their power to slow/stop/prevent the climate change issue, may still be impacted.

Cheering that scenario, agreeing that it is "deserved" regardless of your culpability, is a bad.

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u/Enachtigal 9h ago

It's all around us. Hell, everyone (myself included) are pretty much just operating on "Well I sure do hope voting in November and recycling all those cans nips this problem in the bud!". We are about 15-20 years past that being a reasonable delusion.

You ask "Where's the inaction?" while we are talking about climate driven events that are going to kill hundreds of millions to billions of people. Where is the fucking action? Why are the at most ten thousand people really driving this fucking car into a wall still walking among mortal men?

Because we are hoping someone else will solve the problem somehow without majorly subverting the lives we have become accustomed to. That's the inaction.

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u/tahlyn 12h ago

Move while your house still has value.

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u/quadbonus 13h ago

This is a really backwards and terrible way to think. You can do better.

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u/MozartDroppinLoads 12h ago

If we're all locked in a room together and one guy stood up and smashed the thermostat for no reason and now we're all suffering in 110 degree heat? I think I'm justified in taking some satisfaction from the suffering of the idiot who needlessly put us in that situation

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u/Opposite_Tangelo_118 10h ago

I can always tell the person with zero STEM background attempting to play their hand at it. They always sound spiteful, short-winded, and dull. Exactly what politics sounds like. Coincidence? I think not.

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u/MozartDroppinLoads 9h ago

I can always tell truly misinformed and sad bad faith liars by the fact that they talk about a STEM background in their first sentence, and they also give really pedantic and obvious inane "observations" that they pass off as insightful

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u/quadbonus 11h ago

Dumb

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u/Dramatic_Explosion 11h ago

Not really. We know statistically the south votes Republican, and know Republicans take ignorant stances on issues until it personally affects them. Since this country relies on Republican politicians to get things done, we literally need them to suffer before our government will address the issue.

Unfortunately their kind take significantly more abuse before they push back, so a lot more of them will have to fall off before change happens.

It's terrible, but it's how the real world we live in works at the moment.

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u/quadbonus 10h ago

None of that has anything to do with why this is a childish and shortsighted way of thinking.

There are millions of systematically disenfranchised people in those places whose suffering you are gleefully celebrating.

You're not being realistic, you're being dim.

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u/MozartDroppinLoads 9h ago

Look let's be realistic, no one is going to gleefully celebrate anything. They will just get less of my sympathy than other parts of society domestically and globally. Should we just pour all of our energy and empathy into the pour oppressed Southerners who've never been able to assert their voice? Maybe our energy would be better directed elsewhere

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 8h ago

Ok and that's what these comments are trying to point out. Maybe don't live/think/act that way. It's a seriously ignorant way of thinking. Do you though

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u/Underlord_Fox 10h ago

So like, statistically is different from 'everyone here deserves punishment.' Do you think a classroom of kids should all be punished for the behavior of some of them?

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u/Puzzled_Suspect460 3h ago

Or any kids, regardless. They don't vote and they are the group the most likely to suffer health consequences from overheating.

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u/agray20938 8h ago

You recognize that "the south" does not vote 100% republican, right?

When you say we "literally need them to suffer," the "them" in that scenario necessarily would include both republican voters in the south along with the tens of millions of people that aren't voting republican, but apparently also need to suffer because they happen to live nearby...

Not to mention that statistically the south is far more racially diverse compared to most other regions of the U.S., so saying the south "needs" to suffer is also necessarily saying a majority of black and latino americans need to suffer as well.

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 8h ago

Way to generalize

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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 12h ago

I probably can but I will not.

All I'll say is I want for them what they want for all the brown and black people they're putting in cages right now

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 8h ago

What about us southern black and brown people suffering from climate change as the post is speaking to? You saying we should die because Republicans make bad choices?

Or do you only think about white people when saying these things?

Shame on you, honestly.

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u/Lich_Apologist 12h ago

Does it matter which end of the banana goes in the blender first? 

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u/42Ubiquitous 12h ago

In the Midwest, and it has been brutal the few days.

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u/applespicebetter 9h ago

You have plenty of people out there talking about the hole in the ozone lair closing as if it was an imaginary problem rather than a massive international effort to restrict free chemical release of CFCs that were causing the problem actually fucking working! The same with acid rain and the requirements for catalytic converters and other mitigations.

They we're real problems, not imaginary, and we did work hard, globally, to solve them!

Apparently, a solved problem was never actually a problem though, so let's get to cutting food inspections and using human sewage as fertilizer. Also, your kid doesn't need all those fancy vaccinations, RSV and measles are good for them!

Fucks sake. God damn it.

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u/ronnie_reagans_ghost 11h ago

The same rich people who are building million-dollar apocalypse bunkers lol

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u/Enachtigal 10h ago

The small silver lining is you don't need enough cement to build an apocalypse bunker. Just enough to plug on up :)

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 9h ago

Or just dump like a fuckin ton of spider eggs in the air vents

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u/acapulcoblues 11h ago

You don’t believe climate change is happening?

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u/micro102 11h ago

.Might wanna fix that typo lol.

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u/exgiexpcv 11h ago

The migrations are likely gonna follow the Hadley cells, and that is gonna get ugly. People are gonna be living underground.

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u/DivineSwordMeliorne 10h ago

We had the greatest swell in climate change from Greta Thunberg ; and then.. silence.

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u/Hawgdestroyerxtreme 4h ago

And the other 70% doesn't believe we're going to see another 10-20 years in America anyways.

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u/Deosarian 12h ago

You don't understand

They still think black and brown people are less than human and billionaires are their friends

Obviously it's the immigrants ruining things

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u/anomanderrake1337 6h ago

Propaganda works. But also at the same time lethargy because no one does anything is a thing. Like we all know Trump is in the Epstein files and no one is doing anything.

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u/No_Care46 4h ago

Yeah well, solving the problem would require the irreversible abolishment of capitalism via Marxist-Leninist revolution and would indirectly acknowledge that the USSR and China were always the good guys, so...

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u/Gilgamesh107 13h ago

That's nice but do you condemn Hasan piker ?

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u/Powerblue102 13h ago edited 12h ago

I start every day by condemning Hasan Piker. Then I condemn him before every meal, and once before bed.

On a serious note, the shift in this country has been so rightward, Dems don’t even care about climate change anymore, and while the Dem socialists do, they don’t campaign on it. I don’t even think it’s cracks top 10 things people care about right now, even though it quite literally impacts the affordability crisis.

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u/plantain_tent_pesos 13h ago

Leaders have flooded the zone with bullshit so much that they have been successful in boiling it down to absound bite that idiots run with: "Climate change is a hoax," and thats all the energy american media wants to put into it. Sad.

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u/GammaFan 12h ago

They haven’t been leaders for a while. They’re just rulers now

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u/Gilgamesh107 12h ago

Sorry but if it's not Hasan, immigrants, "DEI", isreal or transexuals then the media doesn't care.

The world can literally melt away and we'll still be hearing about hasan piker.

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u/nope-nik-tesla 11h ago

What are you talking about? Dems passed hundreds of billions of dollars for renewable energy and electric vehicles last time they were in power.

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u/Powerblue102 9h ago

Kamala was literally campaigning on drilling more oil 😕

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u/DMercenary 10h ago

Ah but they're not screaming from the rooftops about it. That means they don't care about it.

Anyways time to vote R cause you know what have the Democrats done for me lately? Nothing. We need to punish the Dems! /S

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u/frootee 9h ago

Harris literally ran on climate policy. Biden spent billions on climate change, first president to do so. Created a team specifically for climate change. Of course destroyed by Trump.

They care, we just didn’t listen. And apparently still don’t.

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u/agray20938 7h ago

Biden spent billions on climate change, first president to do so.

First, if you don't count Obama entering into the Paris Agreement on climate change, 2009 Recovery Act including $54B in climate-related spending, policymaking through the EPA to push towards higher fuel economy requirements, among others.

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u/frootee 7h ago

He spent it directly into fighting climate change, tho, not indirectly. Among pushing for more of those policies or expanding them. Obama did a lot, Biden did the most.

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u/exgiexpcv 11h ago

"Piker delenda est. Let's eat!"

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u/acapulcoblues 11h ago

For what?

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 8h ago

What are Hasan's opinions on 9/11?

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u/PJ796 7h ago edited 7h ago

That the concept of blowback is a thing and you can't expect to meddle in regions without pissing some people off, thus America isn't blameless and "deserved" 9/11. The US of A would have reacted in the exact same way had someone done it to them, but apparently it's hard to imagine a generation of Iraqi kids being a bit spiteful after having a bunch of dads and uncles killed.

Really for all the dictatorships and coups the USA has put in power or supported over the years, especially in places as close as Latin America, it is a shock that not more blowback has happened.

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 6h ago

For what?

The fact that you literally just explained why it was ok that people who were just going to work were murdered en masse on 9/11.

I bet you think October 7th was also ok.

I bet you unironically call for genocide in response to an alleged genocide.

Communists are charicatures of human beings.

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u/nowyouseemenowyoudo2 5h ago

They literally do. These are the people who were out celebrating while Palestinians were still committing rapes and beheadings on October 7th.

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u/PJ796 4h ago edited 4h ago

I didn't say it's okay to murder civilians, if anything they should have focused more on the pentagon that pulled the strings, but do you think that the US has not killed a single civilian in the middle east pre-9/11? If <3000 people killed during 9/11 justifies the war on terror and the hundreds of thousands of civilians dead as a result of that, then how wouldn't any of the civilian casualties during e.g. the US-led gulf war justify a response to the US?

But likewise you can't put people in an open air prison, steal their homes, make a bunch of military operations aimed at murdering Palestinians etc. and expect not to get a response. In fact they want responses to be able to justify why they keep having to kill 100x more or "mow the lawn" as they say, which is why Israel have supported specifically Hamas over other Palestinian parties that are less easy to provoke, and Oct 7 is just one small part of that which Israel has tried to brand as the start of a war despite them having done so much worse to Palestinians for the better part of a century.

And no I don't call for genocide against the genocidal Zionists, that's hilarious that you would think anyone actually thinks/does that

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u/super_sayanything 10h ago

I want a t-shirt that says this except people would be too dumb to know its satire.

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u/snargeII 12h ago

Not up on him really, but seen him mentioned a lot recently. I know he was always a political guy but did it come out hes bought by someone or hes on about something problematic or what

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u/Gilgamesh107 11h ago

No

Pretty much hes helping DSA people campaign, like mamdani and el Sayed

So the right wing are attacking him every single day now

But also a lot of people on the left hate him because he is anti isreal so they are both kinda shitting on him nonstop meanwhile places like Fox are constantly asking people if they condemn Hasan piker.

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u/goodnamesweretaken 10h ago

People on the left are anti-isreal. You're talking about democrats, who are not left; they're practically status quo centrists.

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u/Ok-Box3576 8h ago

If u mean status quo by no wanting to abolish borders, prisons, cops, personal wealth sure ig. But that will make 99% of america status quo.

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u/snargeII 11h ago

Oh ok. Well dsa at a national level has a few problematic or less than ideal takes but for the most part seems pretty solid from my pov. Cool ty

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u/punchanaziisethical 11h ago

Better than the alternative of ignoring the future that is barreling down on us in less than 20 years. That 20 years is gonna go by in a blink, with a bunch of once in a life time natural disasters every year in the mean time.

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u/snargeII 11h ago

Ya. Cuz of that i feel its irresponsible of me to support anything other than a progressive agenda

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u/ShroomBear 11h ago

We're shitting on him because during the last election cycle he was anti-Kamala and defended his anti-Israel stance by being pro-HAMAS and was promoting conflict.

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u/jordanthejq12 13h ago

"Unless we take drastic action"

So we're fucked. Other breaking news: Things touched by water, wet.

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u/HankHippopopolous 12h ago

Nothing will happen because the drastic actions needed to actually stop climate change are completely unpalatable. We’re talking massive lowering of consumption and living standards, get rid of cars, no air travel, global population reductions. No one is going to go for these things willingly. You couldn’t even get people to stay indoors for 2 weeks during a pandemic.

So we’re just going continue sleepwalking forwards and then have to deal with whatever catastrophes come along with it.

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u/abrasumente_ 10h ago

And no government seems to even try to reign in the biggest polluter companies. Our reliance on oil, forced upon us by unfettered capitalism, is fucking the world and governments don't give a shit. Grow up learning about the damned robber barons and shit but at least they often gave back to their communities. The ultra rich almost never seem to have any sense of civic duty to society anymore.

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u/infinis 8h ago

Canada tried putting a minuscule carbon tax and a deadline for gas cars and the prime minister had to resign because his popularity dropped to single digits. The new prime minister scrapped all those measures and can now walk on water.

Everyone is so pro environment until they have to pay 5% more for gas or cancel their third overseas trip.

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u/Tangibilite 5h ago

It's a goddamn embarrassment.

The indomitable human spirit I heard so much about when I was growing up was apparently just a miniscule percentage of people able to deal with hardship. Looking at everyone around me now? I'm surprised we're not already in the dust. I wish I didn't know because I have to pretend like it's not weighing on me so I can still have a community around me of people that I do love and care about without them wholesale sending me to the fringes of their minds because what I talk about is too upsetting.

What a world... gotta get up to work tomorrow though and pretend... Again.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 9h ago

This is a very extremist interpretation, almost as if you're setting yourself to fail so you can give yourself license to despair and do nothing.

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u/Soft_Locksmith661 12h ago

Fucked with a capital F.

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u/larkhills 11h ago

correction, our kids are fucked. "we" are probably fine. and thats enough for a lot of people

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u/jeremiahthedamned 3h ago

heat domes are becoming mass causality events

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u/Kampvilja 13h ago

The "unless we take action" ship has sailed. Now it is all "fucked mitigation."

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u/Top-Caregiver7815 13h ago

For us that have been keenly aware of this for the last 30 years and now seeing little to no substantial action taken to slow it the only solace at this point is watching mother nature flex on the species that are nothing more than a tragic misstep in evolution too stupid to save themselves. Let them suffer.

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u/goodnamesweretaken 11h ago

I feel this. I have made so many life style changes and I have tried to convince my friends that they should too to help address this, but they don't. They still had kids though, and I can't help but feel bad for those kids.

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u/Destructopoo 13h ago

We've known for decades that we had to do something drastic or we would be very fucked and it would get worse in the 20s. Now we're on the second half of the 20s, things have actually gotten worse, and confirming what we know is barely news.

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u/Shneancy 11h ago

tbf things are getting worse faster than expected, so that's news ig

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u/punchanaziisethical 11h ago

Guess the climate scientists didnt account for it being exponential. Obviously that means everything they said was wrong /s

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u/Thami15 13h ago

Here's the thing - not only are we fucked, but renewables and green energy is cheaper and allows for greater sovereignty, as you're shielded from geopolitical price shocks.

So not only are we making the wrong choice from the, lets not die, perspective. But economically we've picked the lane that makes no sense. And politically we've picked the lane that makes absolutely no sense.

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u/punchanaziisethical 11h ago

Every super power country is at least trying to implement mitigation and future proofing factors knowing climate change is coming and its going to be bad. But our country got bought by the billionaires so our leaders and bought news media is burying our countries collective head in the sand.

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u/RizzwindTheWizzard 10h ago

Yeah, here in the UK we moved away from coal years ago. The only fossil fuel we still use is natural gas and that's only at 12% of our energy production, the rest is all green energy. The US is still at 82% fossil fuels and that's going up under trump.

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u/golfwang1539 13h ago

Nothing matters anymore

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u/Genteel_Lasers 13h ago

Well nothing really ever mattered

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u/samuraiaullways 12h ago

Well, yeah, but now it really doesn’t matter

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u/golfwang1539 12h ago

No this is different. Public pressure used to work at least a little. Now you can do whatever you want, deny it, and people will move on if the money is right.

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u/CauliflowerHealthy20 13h ago

Other countries are taking it seriously

Unlike the us where we doubled down on coal and gas

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u/DullCommunication718 13h ago

Everyone decided 20 years ago not to do anything. 10 years ago was already too late to start.

Hope y'all don't have kids you expect to reach retirement age themselves 

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u/No_Support3633 10h ago

what exactly do you mean by that? i'm very dumb please explain it.

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u/greenemeraldsplash 9h ago

basically, climate change is exponential. the companies that cause climate change will not stop causing it because it makes them more money

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u/No_Support3633 9h ago

thank you! but i meant the latter portion of the comment.

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u/greenemeraldsplash 8h ago

As someone who wanted children and is now rethinking children, basically, the world will be a lot more hazardous to them.

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u/retired-tweeter 12h ago

Whenever I see “why aren’t young people having kids”, I look at the state of the world and think…uhhh what’s the appeal? Just handing them a big ole dumpster fire.

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u/yesimfinewhyyouask 8h ago

Those news articles are there to just make an illusion of concern. The ai robot servants and police are as good as ready, no one in power gives a shit about demographics anymore, in fact they might want less of us.

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u/Julian_Betterman 12h ago

That report and its prequels have been coming out annually for like 20 years now.

We been known. Billionaires don't care because they all think like Stockton Rush.

By the time reality reaches them, it'll be too catastrophic to matter.

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u/lovebus 13h ago

For something to be in the news, it would have to be "new".

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u/ShockinglyAccurate 11h ago

Just catching up on the olds

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u/AngeluvDeath 13h ago

To who? You can do what you can do with your footprint. You can lobby others to do something about theirs. As long as these idiots are in charge they will make a joke about not listening to anything rational.

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u/freemanposse 12h ago

Well, yes, but some unfathomably, incomprehensibly wealthy people have said no, because they would have to be slightly less unfathomably wealthy. Our condolences to anyone in Tuvalu.

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u/2Hanks 13h ago

“People are getting ready to head into the weekend. Let’s see if we can’t put a more positive spin on this.” - Will McAvoy

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u/TallGuy0525 8h ago

I see a couple references to Don't Look Up, and all I'm thinking is, "yeah The Newsroom did this years before lol"

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u/StonedRussian 13h ago

But have you even thought to consider what we can do with AI data centers and what the shareholders might think?

/s

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u/brentmc79 13h ago

The people that care already know, and the people that need to hear it don’t care.

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u/Lovedd1 13h ago

They've been saying this for 30 yrs now ppl are numb and don't care. I've done my part and went vegan 5yrs ago, drive a gas mileage friendly car and try to reduce consumption over all.

I know ultimately it's the big companies who need to make a change but that doesn't mean none of us can do some things that will make a difference.

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u/danielzur2 12h ago

You’d think that based on all the previous evidence of climate change warnings we’ve dismissed over the last 50 years?

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u/WrittenFever 13h ago

When has taking drastic actions ever sounded like something the United States (or other economically "well-off" nations for that matter) have been willing to do?

After decades of progress towards social improvements, someone throws a fit and we speedrun back towards disaster in a matter of years, sometimes months if they're feeling extra indignant. Try to tell them to think of someone/something non-human and they'll probably go scorched earth.

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u/herewearefornow 13h ago

You'd need a lobby group with lots of money to get that kind of traction,

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 13h ago

The people in power decided long ago that they don't care.
Otherwise the response for the past few decades wouldn't have been this feckless.
We were always doomed. It was never seriously considered.

You know this.

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u/Lazy-Ambassador-7908 12h ago

This is like 4th report of that nature. They’ve all be true, but I don’t expect people’s urgency to change after the 4th if they couldn’t after the 1st

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u/absentfacejack 12h ago

This has been a repeating news headline since the 70s.

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u/DuntadaMan 12h ago

Because we have known this for 40 god damn years and everyone who can do something about it has actively worked to tell us "fuck you."

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 13h ago

been a long time since anyone listened to the UN, unless it happened to be in their favor

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u/farbtoner 12h ago

They’ve just decided to pretend the climate doesn’t exist and the cowards in what passes for journalism are just going to “both sides” it until we boil.

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u/Maritzsa 12h ago

its over man im just waiting to die

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u/ROADHOG_IS_MY_WAIFU 11h ago

Ah fuck, Al Gore was correct?! This is an inconvenient truth.

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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl 11h ago

We live in an anti-science environment. Empiricism is pretty much witchcraft

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u/Standard-Square-7699 9h ago

Its not news, we know this

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u/chief_yETI ☑️ 9h ago

no drastic action will be taken, because it requires way too many people to all work together worldwide, and we already saw how terribly that went during COVID.

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u/TheComplimentarian 9h ago

Everyone knows we're not going to take drastic action.

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u/calderowned 13h ago

Other than voting in November  tell me what can I do to stop giant corps from destroying the planet? 

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u/thatshirtman 12h ago

havent we been saying this for decades now? boy cried wolf situation perhaps

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u/Checkoutmawheeeeepit 12h ago

The problem is that the very wealthy have bunkers that can keep their families safe (and staff because God forbid Tarquanbeep butter his bunker toast) so we can all get fucked

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u/PracticalAd614 11h ago

It is. That’s why they’re building rocket ships to get the bleep outta here.

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u/HardSteelRain 10h ago

Not when big oil owns so many news outlets

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u/Karyoplasma 10h ago

Reining in climate change would severely damage profits, so the study is swept under the rug. After me, the deluge.

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 10h ago

Why would it be? The ones who own and control those news outlets want to destroy the world and rule over its ashes. People need to get this through their heads, the ruling class can and routinely is cruel, evil, and stupid for the sake of cruelty and petty evil. From the age of paleolithic tribal chieftains to the modern corporate-run oligarchy.

This has always been the case and will always be the case wherever power differentials exist. The more power one group has over another, the worse this phenomenon gets.

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u/NH1000 10h ago

The BBC seems far more obsessed with small boats than the climate

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u/Ustaznar 9h ago

The billionaires in charge already have their private islands ready for when most of the world catches on fire. They don't give a shit.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 9h ago

"bUt tHE eCoNoMY"

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u/Arxhart_671 9h ago

Very few people, politician, CEO, or average joe, actually care. They will one day because they'll have no choice but for now, no one in the west/global north is giving up their lifestyle.

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u/izzgo 9h ago

I thought the report said it's too late already.

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u/Cute_Low_4033 9h ago

This report should've been front-page news for weeks straight, it's infuriating how little traction it's gotten.

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u/Electro-Tree-Fall 9h ago

Oh fuck we really are all going to die

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u/Chemical-Finding-818 9h ago

In Chicago recently a steel bridge wouldnt close because it expanded too much from the heat so the two halves didn't fit anymore. Which is crazy enough on its own but I don't see anyway talking about how engineers DO account for material expansion due to ambient temperature in structures that large. IT WAS JSUT NEVER SUPPSOED TO BE THIS HOT

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u/BoredAFcyber 9h ago

yea this is why i think its selfish or ignorant to have kids :(

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u/tinyOnion 8h ago

you'd also think that credible reporting of the us president raping children would warrant more outrage/wide spread reporting but here we are.

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u/Tripple_T 8h ago

Look who owns the media

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u/OhGr8WhatNow 7h ago

Everybody is too economically desperate today to have the bandwidth to care about climate tomorrow

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u/Kaleria84 7h ago

The thing is that "drastic action" would cost the rich a lot of money and they won't have that!

Wish I could /s that but it's exactly why we're doomed.

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u/sb76117 7h ago

The billionaires have bunkers and have people convinced they matter to them.

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 5h ago

Let's be honest they're always saying these things and look the weather outside is just so nice and warm to worry about things like that..............

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u/BusyBeeBridgette 4h ago

Even if we took drastic action now it wouldn't change much. The drastic action should have been taken 40-50 years ago. The best we can hope for is taking the sting out of it and riding it through until it the process has ended.

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u/No_Care46 4h ago

Yeah, but that would require the irreversible abolishment of capitalism via Marxist-Leninist revolution and would indirectly acknowledge that the USSR and China were always the good guys, so...

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u/Knivesforksetc 12h ago

Won’t anyone think of the shareholders profit margis

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u/TheRecognized 12h ago

No you wouldn’t, if you’ve been paying attention.

You might hope, but you wouldn’t expect.

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u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw 11h ago

Worse still is that it makes the news as fake news. Or it makes the fake news as fake news.

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u/Truelies422 11h ago

Long lines of i dont care I'm building a rocket to the moon to get away from this going on

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u/whitestar11 10h ago

It's too late. Just try to survive it and enjoy what little pleasures are left.

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u/Anyna-Meatall 10h ago

would you, though?

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u/dl7 9h ago

We are not. Our next few generations will be. That's the important distinction. We don't have to care even though it's clear we should. It comes down to what can be prioritized.

The global majority does not have its basic needs met so that's the priority for them. It's hard to care about the environment when you're fighting poverty. The incredibly wealthy have the privilege of being selfish so they are. They will not live to experience the drawbacks of their decisions so they will continue to take.

The folks with enough time to truly focus on this issue have the privilege to understand its impact while also caring enough to do something about it. Their problem is that they rarely can inspire their communities to get on board because they likely live in one of the two environments above so community building around environmental protection is dependent on the socioeconomic health of the community itself.

Tl;Dr - People are either currently too rich or too poor to care

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u/SalamanderAmazing777 9h ago

On the other hand, we get one every year...

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u/yesimfinewhyyouask 8h ago

Just keep buying those Labubus

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 6h ago

If it mattered would they really release it on the same day Taylor and Travis buy a house in Ohio?

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u/mr_evilweed 11h ago

I realized the climate was doomed when Bernie bros refused to vote for Hillary.