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Seanchan posted...

All these types of things take lots of money and societal changes, over a long period of time. But people are stubborn and lazy and will refuse to do anything they don't want to until the problem is literally going to kill them personally in the next hour/day/week.

And even then, since a lot of the most obvious effects (rising sea levels) will affect the coasts which are, outside the southeast/Gulf Coast, largely Democratic areas you just know a pivot by a good chunk of them won't be "Oh shit, it's real." but "Look, God is punishing you heathen communists for your decadent and heretical ways." and so it'll be filed under "divine punishment" and not "man-made climate change."

so that'll be something fun to look forward to when my home is underwater because i had the "misfortune" to be born in an area near the coast.

In reality, the fact that we are now routinely seeing "once-in-a-hundred-years" storms and droughts ravage all over the country for over a decade now should be an obviously enough flashing alarm signal but it's just being handwaved away as coincidence or not even thought about as part of a bigger picture.

To say nothing of entire islands being erased by rising sea levels around the world the past decade because naturally these same people pretty much don't acknowledge anything outside the US. Even as some islands have already had to have their populations evacuate because of it.

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