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by junon 1059 days ago
So we're fucked at this point, and nobody is saying anything about it.

Don't Look Up was right. We're dumb idiots of a species.

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The fun thing is, we cannot recognise this kind of danger. Our regular animalistic detection mechanism cannot be triggered by this, so we're kind of aware but nothing in us tells us to get away from the problem. Even as you write this, you probably don't truly believe that this could very well be the end. For once the slowly boiled frog thing is actually true.
I certainly have had my panicky days about this, so something inside me is getting at least part of the picture.

Unfortunately the people who can actually do anything about this lack the parts of their brain that could ever hope to understand.

over 20 years I completely recognized a warming, and I'm doing my best (no car, minimal consumption/spending, CO2eq footprint about 5% of average person in Western Europe), not many people are doing this, but there are plently benefits, not just environmental
It seems a bit like dying of a radiation overdose - a lethal exposure can take just moments, and you will go on as though nothing happened for a time, but the damage is done and irreversible.
like cigarettes, another dumb behavior of humans
It’s noneoftheabove that stands above the don’t look up.