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by sidewndr46 1509 days ago
Are you suggesting that the only way to avoid anthropogenic climate change is a massive die off humans?
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Isn't it obvious?

On 9/11 ~3500 people died. During the pandemic that many people were dying of Covid every day. In 2 years over 1 million Americans have died of Covid. 9/11 sparked 20 years of wars (that we lost) and trillions of dollars gone, not to mention the hundreds of thousands or millions we killed directly or indirectly in the process.

But the pandemic response? Slave muzzles [1] and an incredibly safe vaccine could've saved millions of people worldwide. Minor inconvenience, basically.

I mean look at how people are upset how gas is more expensive now. Do you really think people collectively will subject themselves to something similar long-term so decades from now the Earth might be slightly cooler than it's otherwise going to be? No shot.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-qanon-rode-pandem...

This is the new HN shrug - just go about your business and maybe the oligarchs will genocide all the non-rationlists
at least we'll go to Mars!