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based guardian article, although some section about the animal slaughtering in the meat industry and its effects and massive impact into climate change was kinda missing imo

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Fossil fuels are causing this damage. Therefore, the only way out of this heat nightmare is to end them. No amount of tree planting, recycling, carbon offsetting, or wishful carbon-capture thinking will ever change this.

Can’t agree more. Let’s f-ing go already.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


So long as we burn fossil fuels, far, far worse is on the way; and I take zero satisfaction in knowing that this will be proven right, too, with a certainty as non-negotiable and merciless as the physics behind fossil-fueled global heating.

Biden’s refusal to declare a climate emergency and his eagerness to push new pipelines and new drilling – at an even faster pace than Trump – goes against science, goes against common sense, goes against life on Earth.

Carbon dioxide resides in the atmosphere for a very long time, making the excess heat and other climate impacts basically irreversible on human-relevant timescales.

Declaring a climate emergency would unleash additional powers such as banning oil exports and further accelerating renewable energy buildout on a scale not seen since the mobilization for the second world war.

It would send an unmistakable signal to investors still living in the past, to universities that have been shamefully slow to divest, to media outlets that have failed to connect the dots, to all the dangerously lagging institutions of our society.

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Yeah, but you’re forgetting money. Money is green, so it’s good for the environment. And oil makes money.

Connect the dots

/s

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I’m sure the 1% will spend all the money they’ve hoarded to save the rest of us when the world is on fire at the last possible moment, right?

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Some have already been spending money building climate/fallout shelters in New Zealand, then stuffing them with provisions and hiring personnel to guard them. When the moment comes, it’s just a quick private jet trip, and the world can burn.

Others, like world leaders (Putin, Erdogan, etc), have expanded their palaces and residences with underground shelters for a similar purpose. They’re already ready for the world to burn.

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