• I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    Here’s what you can do in the next 5 minutes to stop your Stage 3 Lung Cancer!

    That’s pretty much the same thing this headline is saying. We are deep in it now, maybe not the absolute worst case it could be, but definitely not good. And 12 months is not nearly enough time to deal with the problem, so much so that it’s laughable to even suggest it could be. The only solution will be long, hard, expensive, and require a LOT of pain and sacrifice. Plus, there’s no guarantees it will even work. It may just be too late at this point.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      11 months ago

      The difference is that extracting and burning fossil fuel is a human action, and we have the power to decide not to. Social change like this often takes the form of people getting unhappy, and not much changing until it reaches a communal tipping point and people start changing things all at once.