Why is it so fucking hard for governments to get on board with fighting climate change?Same reason they won't fix the homeless problem: because there's no money to be made solving it.
We've been flirting with midnight on the doomsday clock for its entire existence. It's just a fearmongering tool.
Why is it so fucking hard for governments to get on board with fighting climate change?Oil companies that have proven this will all happen want money now as we'll be dead when the worst happens so fuck the rest of us.
Is this a serious postLet me guess, you're a plastic straw user? Sure don't appear to care about the planet much. You probably don't even use your leftover pasta water for your coffee.
Hold up, Taylor Swift just took a private jet flight to grab some food and is now back home.
That one act has just defeated my three years of not using AC whatsoever.
No. The incompatibility is between the excesses of endgame capitalism and doing something real about climate change.Excess caused by demand. Which would still exist even if you killed every single one of those evil capitalist ruling the world.
Since the capitalists rule the world, and are too stupid/evil to see the need for change, this oncoming disaster is inevitable.
The world's biggest polluter, by far, is China. In the same 2030 timeline where major nations are trying to halve their emissions, China has only promised to reduce the rate at which their emissions are increasing to 0. Plenty of governments are on board, and their contributions are effectively a drop in the ocean. So realistically the options are either everyone cuts ties completely with China until they fix their shit, or the world goes to war and forces them to. That's the harsh reality of climate change if things are actually as dire as people say.Isn't China in the process of building more nuclear power plants?
Now some Wumao is going to eventually come in and say that "actually it's the US's fault because they buy the most stuff from China", because apparently China isn't actually a sovereign nation that can set their own policy. In reality, China will literally let the rest of the world burn if it means they continue to grow, so they have no incentive to actually improve their standards and become more expensive (and thus less attractive as a manufacturing hub).
We also have to remember that since there are phonies out there like Leo and Bono who aren't living up to practicing what they're preaching, we have very telling evidence that it must be a big hoax...We really don't.
Isn't China in the process of building more nuclear power plants?
Which is one of the biggest challenges with addressing climate change. The countries that need to make the biggest changes have the least incentive and unless the rest of the world literally forces them to play along all our own actions are almost meaningless.
Governments won't actMarked for spoilers!
We really don't.
Nothing will happen until us younger generations quit treating it as just another political issue. It is THE issue that WILL affect our lifestyles MAJORLY if we don't prioritize it above all other issues. This and the threat of nuclear war are why we are flirting with midnight on the doomsday clock.
Young people need to quit being pushovers or we really are fucking ourselves over by trusting that the rest of society will take care of us. We've found out the hard way that there are not nearly enough benevolent older people out there to put society's welfare before their own short-term comfort.
This. The earth has been way hotter and way colder numerous times throughout its history. People act like this is something new but it's just what the earth does.
Human prosperity and environmentalism are completely incompatible. And if you try and affect the former in any meaningful capacity enough to actually reverse climate change would make most of humanitys lives miserable.
Miserable enough to wise up and kill any and all overseeing and enforcing it.