Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
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Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22819667

“If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species and then with a sudden vengeance.”

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    7 days ago

    Never. The plan is delay, delay, delay, delay until it’s too late and then go “Well, there’s nothing we could have done anyway.”

    I’ve been following the arguments for decades now:

    1. Climate change is not happening.

    2. OK, climate change is happening, but there’s no evidence it’s caused by humans.

    3. OK, it is happening, and maybe it’s caused by humans, but maybe it’s something else.

    4. OK, it is happening, and it’s definitely caused by humans, but it’s too expensive to do anything about it, and people need jobs. <- You are here.

    5. OK, it is happening, it’s caused by humans, and it’s bad enough now that it’s making it impossible for people to work without air conditioning, but really, the time to have done something was 30 to 50 years ago. (eta 2030 to 2050).

    6. OK, well, it’s self perpetuating at this point, nothing to be done. Here, have some more oil, on us. (eta 2100).