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by Gravityloss 2081 days ago
These large issues are tackled with large coordinated effort. Voting is the primary way to affect this.
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Now, all we need is a place to vote if we want Climate Warning or not!

Instead, we have vote for president. That vote may affect the actions on climate change, but it may not be in the way you want. And it has lots and lots of related side affects.

Let us say that the president who would take more steps to curb global warming would also cause growth in a non US country that is environmentally destructive. Or that they themselves would make so many deals and compromises that the deal that gets passed is actually a long term net loss.

I am totally not saying that will happen, but making things too black and white can lead to surprises.

So, like it has worked for so many other issues...