• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    Our species is on the brink of self-destruction on numerous fronts due to the private profit motive bastardizing world economies and new technologies to work against the species that created them to maximize short-term profit above all else.

    How should we address these many crises, nitwits of the human race?

    “Dancing and women having sex for pleasure must be stopped!”

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        That’s why I’m enjoying climate change coverage so much.

        Non-binding feel good agreements, capitalist snake oil to sell yet another vaporware “solution” to the problem their greed caused and continues to cause, constant reframing of new, increasingly dire projections as we blow through red lines.

        "Oh hey, it’s me, job creator billionaire at your service.

        I know we knew what emissions were doing and covered it up to keep profits rolling in for decades, but I have the solution to the problem, and yes I sell it, let me introduce you to corn based ethanol! clean coal! planet scale carbon filters! Will that be cash or charge?"

        All the while, as I read, I chuckle at humans doing what they do best, trying to delude themselves into ignoring reality, as if they’re trying to bargain with the physical reality humanity has created eyes wide open. Our reverse terraforming of Earth doesn’t care why we did it, or the bullshit we lie to ourselves about it though. It’s here.

        It’s better in the long run too, if we accelerate hard enough, maybe there wont be enough of our cockroach species left to rebuild and forget all the lessons of what we did as is tradition and inflict ourselves on this planet and all other life on it again.

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      This is the reason why local and all elections matter. We need to kick the trumpy grumpies out and keep them off the school boards and anywhere else. Don’t forget failure to do so means more kids getting exposed by prageru more don’t say gay bills and erosion of other rights. Our world is depending on us to kick the trumpy grumpies out so rational discussions can at least start.