Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
by Angostura on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:51AM
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> Not everyone is going to like the environmental jihad that is being suggested, and that’s a big problem.
The thing about democracy is that not everyone has to like everything - just the majority.
I don't like that I'm going to have to change my lifestyle, in order to prevent appalling environmental damage, but I understand that I will have to.
The "big problem" is the kind of people who describe pragmatic evidence-based policies designed to avoid collapse of civilisation as "an environmental jihad"
The thing about democracy is that not everyone has to like everything - just the majority.
I don't like that I'm going to have to change my lifestyle, in order to prevent appalling environmental damage, but I understand that I will have to.
The "big problem" is the kind of people who describe pragmatic evidence-based policies designed to avoid collapse of civilisation as "an environmental jihad"