Re:The U.S. Wheat Crop Is in Trouble
by vegetablepotpie on Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:53AM
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I’m sorry, what?
I feel like that’s a normal human thing to say. People usually say it’s sad when people are affected by bad things, and don’t put a great deal of thought into every implication of how they phrase things. I don’t know, maybe you’re more a fan of karmic justice than of sad irony.
Climate change increasingly affecting people denying climate change makes it more likely they will one day accept it. I don't know how true that is, but that's my view on this particular line of thought.
Karma is believed to work across lifetimes. Without it we'd not be free to make mistakes. So is more about reincarnation, and not about revenge, justice systems or retribution. Misguided belief in karma may wither away at sense of necessary fairness (dharma), which is also karma.
I think the "sadly" there is supposed to be the other way around. That is supposed to be "sadly, the farmers affected believe the least in fighting climate change."
While having anyone affected is sad, if we are going to qualify the sadness, isn't this the least sad outcome? I would be much more sad if the farmers in regions that cared the most about fighting against climate change were the ones first affected.