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5df08b80 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 I am fairly well convinced at this point that global governments will do exactly nothing to combat climate change, billions will die, and basically every work of dystopian fiction ever written comes to fruition.

Yep. Pretty sure.
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ba14acf3 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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And I'd be ok if we were all blithely unaware, or had no option (giant asteroid, mega volcano  etc)  ...but we're not, we know how to stop it and what has to be done and yet choose not to.

I guess human stupidity has endless  prescience; WW1, WW2, Ukraine War, Myanmar, national borders, religion  etc so we should be completly surprised, it's just never been existential like this.

I struggle to find the words to describe how utterly bizzare all of this is? It's like quantum physics to me, completly incomprehensible :)

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