Al Gore warned us some two decades ago that we faced an “Inconvenient Truth.” We didn’t heed his warnings, and now he warns us again. Will we heed it now?
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Even if we did (we won’t) it’s too late. Are we ready to accept reality, or will we be still be “running out of time” when the ice is all gone? Time to think about what’s next.
I mean he also warned us about ManBearPig and nobody believed him. And now that's also a global catastrophe. Wait no that was also climate change. I get those confused. Sorry.
Agreed but don’t forget the DNC (& to a large extent our billionaire funded media) made sure Bernie Sanders was painted as this unrealistic, extreme, curmudgeonly fool who couldn’t/shouldn’t possibly win & that seems worse coming from a party who tells us “Believe Science!”.
Even if 7.9 out of the 8 billion people headed him, the honest truth is that about 10 companies are responsible for the vast majority of carbon output.
So many of us are doing our part. The people that need to the most simply aren't.
Watched an interview with a climate expert. It was dire. One result of climate change is the rising cost of insurance due to all the destructive weather events, etc.. Insurers are even beginning to refuse insurance in areas more readily effected by climate change. Maybe this will wake up deniers.
And Jimmy Carter warned us in 1977 with the Global 2000 report he commissioned, which had no effect because his successor Ronald Reagan was already bluntly ignoring it.
Correct and until we get Big Oil, Energy and basically all of Corporate America onboard with it all....we will continue to fail. No sense in talking about the politics of it all...that's just a lost cause 🤷
Except when the game is rigged, which it really is, and when half of this country and probably rest of the planet still thinks that what they are now feeling even on their own skin, is somehow a conspiracy
Yes, I know. I just don't like to point fingers w/o recognizing own shortcomings. I'm disappointed by the general population. Both when it comes to acknowledging climate change and the consequences and COVID and the consequences.
People don't want to change, in fear of losing the little they do have. And a lot of politicians use that to keep doing their short term harm just to gain a lot of revenue for themselves.
Not to be combative, but I don't remember electing the president of Aramco, or Gazprom OAO. Not to mention China Coal.
When those three combined produce more than 20% of the 1+3 emissions for the globe... I think we're pretty justified pointing fingers.
I fail to see how my voting power, as somebody not in those countries, can influence companies in China, Russia and the Emirates.
Particularly when no normal person's votes actually count for anything in any of those countries.
While most of us want the change to happen, almost no one wants the be the one changing, at least not in a significant way (plus we won't give our vote to put good people in power)
Do we? Really do we? Have we e.g. stopped flying for fun and eating meat? Have we even reduced those? I'm sure people in power are not forcing us to fly or force feeding us beef.
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Hope I'm wrong.
We can also collectively reduce our trips in commercial flights or cars. But yeah, won't probably happen 😓
So many of us are doing our part. The people that need to the most simply aren't.
When those three combined produce more than 20% of the 1+3 emissions for the globe... I think we're pretty justified pointing fingers.
Particularly when no normal person's votes actually count for anything in any of those countries.
https://x.com/AssaadRazzouk/status/1663697978681589760?s=20
While most of us want the change to happen, almost no one wants the be the one changing, at least not in a significant way (plus we won't give our vote to put good people in power)
No.
Unfortunately.