[eyelovewe]

While climate change denialists minimize and try to pretend that more analysis is needed before lifting our smallest finger to change the obvious problem (humans burning hundreds of millions of years of sequestered carbon in the span of 150 years)

It’s actually rather urgent that we collectively acted like the singular species we are, and acted yesterday already.

Don’t wait til 2030 to phase out whatever, let’s go full bore and do it now dedicating our full combined engineering might to tackle the problem. IS HUMANITY CAPABLE OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IF OUR LIVES DEPEND UPON IT?

You know those films with alien invasions where humanity comes together to fight it, can you imagine traitorous factions saying the alien invasion is just a myth? Undermining all that is needed for collective action

[iso1631]

We've passed stage one and two

"nothing is going to happen" (there's no climate change)

"something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it" (the climate change happens anyway, it's not manmade)

Most people are now at stage three

"maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do" (even if we stopped our emissions china would be mean)

Some are progressing to stage four

"maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now" (it's too late now, we're screwed)

[nelblu]

Covid showed us that we are generally inclined to act collectively but very easily fall to conspiracy theories. I hope we ACT, although the pessimist inside me is not so sure.