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[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Slightly more complicated than that. It's also that some countries are way more affected by changes then others. Sure everyone uses fossil fuels but only specific countries export it so you are basically asking a country to cripple itself for you. Same when people suggest we should just not cut down the rainforests. In both cases it would likely be done if other countries paid for it. But right now it's what you say as well as asking people to handicap themselves

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

From the view of the global West, I believe this comic still applies. I'm very much not a fan of asking developing countries to not go through the same industrial revolution we went through, it's the lack of action at home that bothers me. Here in the US, we've got half the population railing against EVs instead of wanting to invest in them and find more environmentally friendly ways to produce them; people who want to gut the FDA and EPA and reduce regulation; people who who don't give a damn about those who are going to be the first affected by rising water; those who think terraforming Mars is a sexier (and magnitudes more expensive) project than using those resources here on Earth. And so on and so on. Those, I think, are the target of this comic. It's a very Western perspective, I agree, but I also think the West is in the best position to do anything about it.

[-] racemaniac@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

It for sure applies to voters, but not to the politicians present at climate conventions as this cartoon portrays. And in the end it's them that have to broker a solution, not individual voters.

They'll of course use such language to their voters since whatever gains votes is fair game, but i very much doubt they themselves are this stupid. Behind the scenes it's just finding ways to screw with the others.

[-] racemaniac@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Yup, i wish talking about issues like this would be more common here rather than "what if we accidentally create a better world", and other really populistic views of what's happening.

this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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