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Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us (www.theguardian.com)
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The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How can you expect people to act when the world around them continues burning through resources at a break neck pace?

One of mcdonalds in my city recently got turned into some sort of a light show/amusement parks for not more than a month. Thousands kilowatt hours wasted, millions of LEDs, tons of steel and plastic, fuel to transport it here and there. All to promote a brand everybody already knows. Now go tell children to take shorter showers.