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hope is a radical act
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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Remember to show people biking and windmills, radical capping of corporate polluting that makes up the majority of emissions. Nobody serious is saying it's too late so we shouldn't change anything, they're saying it's too late to stave off devastating effects of climate change.
People are also realizing that it's not going to be the literal end of civilization though either.
Climate change and the crisis is happening as we speak. Tornados in February in Wisconsin. Temperatures rising. Jet streams changing.
But that doesn't mean everyone dies. It mostly means huge impacts on mostly impoverished nations creating a larger refugee a crisis others don't even want to handle.
People joke constantly that Earth will be fine, humans won't be.
The reality is that humans and anything we absolutely need will be fine. Almost every other thing we can't or don't want to conserve will die.
Nothing will take us out short of a stray meteor large enough to make the globe molten or enough nukes regularly to send us into winter for decades. Even average nuclear winter humanity will get around.
The point though isn't just survival. It's striving to be as good as a shepherd as possible to our home planet and others we share it with.
That's hard when 1% destroys it for profits to keep peoples retirements going because they refuse to pay a decent wage.
Not everything we need. As sea levels rise and inundate aquifers with salt, and as drought followed by flood becomes the norm, the places people live will run out of water for everyday use. Causing waves of refugees, spawning wars.
We are not going to be okay. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't act. Pretending it's going to be okay is just a foolish as pretending it isn't real.
AKA, what I said in Doomer.