• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I like how my head switched from how scary an alien invasion would be to thinking that aliens coming here and fixing this mess is our only hope at this point

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        9 months ago

        We’d literally have to halt all emissions and start massive “rewilding” projects to turn this puppy around. Remember 2020 when human industrial activity paused for a while and nature took some time to take a breath? We will need things like that but all the time. Perhaps have arbour day a monthly thing? Perhaps close all factories over the weekend? Perhaps move to 3 day weekends? Perhaps make an ordinance that 50% of each country needs to be natural untouched protected wilderness? Who knows? We need a lot of solutions NOW.

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          9 months ago

          But how am I gonna get the newest iPhone within 24hrs then? Ever thought about that? Does anyone care about me?

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        9 months ago

        Not everyone will be amicable, the capitalist boomers will still hear it in one ear and then let it exit the other ear.

        Aliens/“work of God” is needed.

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        9 months ago

        Corporations are hell bent on ushering in an environmental hellscape so they can keep up their profits and they’re doing a pretty good job considering how many politicians they have in their pockets.

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          We already bent it from 4C by 2100 to 3C by 2100. We can change outcomes if we work for them.

          Success is not guaranteed, but one way to guarantee failure is to do nothing and sit around hoping for aliens.

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              9 months ago

              Stop buying imported Chinese crap, for starters. If you don’t, then that’s great, but almost everyone does to some extent. Some is unavoidable, but try to minimize it.

              Buy quality items that are built to last. Ask yourself if you really need something or if you just want it. Spread the word to others to do the same. Tell all your friends to stop buying shit from Temu, Wish, dollar stores and other crap-merchants.

              On the positive side, China is in fact growing their renewable capacity at a higher rate than anywhere else in the world, and also building nuclear plants. However the amount of power required for manufacturing to feed the world’s endless appetite for disposable crap is vast and mostly supplied by burning coal.

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                  9 months ago

                  It would be nice if we could. I do manufacture carbide tooling that is much higher quality than the import stuff, and we sell it at a fair price. Only because we have an old, paid for, well kept machine to do it, because otherwise we couldn’t compete.

                  But you can tell that I’m talking about disposable crap if you actually read my comment. Superballs that don’t bounce, plastic holiday decor that crumbles in UV light, erasers shaped like a kitten that just smear the pencil lead around.

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      In the 2000’s alien adoption stuff and aliens in general was huge. Every week there was another american redneck that got abducted by aliens. I sometimes couldn’t sleep at night thinking about it.
      Now i fucking wish aliens would abduct me.