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 @f4f101c0 well it's not like they've known about climate change for long enough to do anything about it...

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 @9b0cdcd0 Yes, exactly!! It's ridiculous. The risks to the climate of burning fossil fuels have been clear for over a century, and yet we're *still* doing it.  I would have figured that we'd get brought down by a mega-volcano or meteorite impact or some novel chemical with delayed toxicity, or, in the future, some rogue AI. Even nuclear war, as awful as it would be, would make for a better epitaph than death by knowingly turning up the planet's thermostat until we cooked ourselves. It's so dumb!