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Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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We are an embarrassment.
And our leaders play politics with carbon taxes just like Trump played his idiots. And we lap it up.
I think it's worse, actually. People genuinely don't want to stop climate change if it requires any personal financial sacrifice.
The carbon tax pays out exactly as much as it takes in, even, and it's not enough.
Totally. The Me Last generation.
Just to make sure I've pissed off everyone, it's not boomers buying Temu every week. Climate change is a very abstract, slow moving problem, and if I had to guess humans just have a limit.
The funny thing is, we talk mad shit about frogs, but they actually will jump out of a pot that gets too warm - although they probably don't think too deeply about it, as much as they just get uncomfortable.
Yeah in the experiment that is often referenced; the frogs had to be lobotomised to stop them just jumping out of the pot whenever they felt like it.
At least in the original experiment, anyway. According to Wikipedia, later Victorian authors claimed it always worked, but modern scientists think that's huey. Ponds can and do get slowly too hot in nature, so it'd be weird if that was just lethal.
Agreed. I don’t mean age in ‘generation’ but rather our collective selfishness across age lines.