• Erk@cdda.social
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    1 year ago

    There will be denial forever, but watch out now for the new propaganda trend, “it’s too late to do anything”. It feels woke and tends to be anticorporate in flavour, but it leads to the same end as denialism.

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      1 year ago

      The problem with that is to a certain extent it is too late. What we were warned would happen decades ago if we didn’t stop is already on our doorstep - climate distasters are getting worse by the year, and temperature records are being leapfrogged left and right.

      The next few decades are likely gonna be rough no matter what we as individuals do, because the world’s governments are too hesitant to make the drastic changes needed, and most companies won’t life a finger until financial incentive comes about or they’re made to.

      We the people do have power, but many of us lack the time, resources, and/or money to greenify our lives in the ways that we really need to, on thr scale that we need to be doing now.

      That’s NOT to say however that we shouldn’t do anything at all, that we shouldn’t press our governments to do anything at all - as the saying goes:

      The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

      Even little gestures will help in the long, long term.

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      1 year ago

      I agree that the “it’s too late to do anything” mentality is just as bad as doing nothing, but at the same time I recognize that the scientific consensus is more and more leaning towards “it really is too late to do anything” in the short term at least.

      Certain gears have been set in motion that we truly cannot stop, but there are also other things that we can prevent if we act now.

      I just don’t know where the line between the two lies.

      The next 50 years or so are set in stone, of that I’m certain.
      But after that, who knows whether the changes we make today will affect the climate in a meaningful way. One can only hope.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It was always to late to do anything, because we live on a fractured planet where people who have destroyed it, and their bought off politicians, dictate that its okay to continue destroying it.

        The only thing that will change anything is a violent global ww3 level revolution leading to a single world government that can do what needs to be done, and do it quickly, with the worlds entire resources at its disposal. and funding it all by seizing all the now dead billion/trillionaires money.