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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by BossingAround on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:01PM (#28542978)
I'd say healthcare is a huge issue in the US. That said, there won't be any need for healthcare if we don't do anything about climate change...
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by mrfusion on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:13PM (#28543110)
What could happen in the next 20 years that makes us not need healthcare? I haven’t heard of anything that extreme.
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by BossingAround on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:59AM (#28562131)
The fact that you're asking "what could happen within the next 20 years" when it comes to the life on our planet screams the doom of the human race to me. Jesus...
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by thehappypm on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:23PM (#28569077)
"Life on our planet"? You think that climate change is going to end life on Earth? That's crazy. Climate change is a threat to modern human civilization. Not life as a whole.
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by thehappypm on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:17PM (#28543159)
I think people dying of treatable diseases is a much more real issue to most Americans than climate change.
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by thomaslangston on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:21PM (#28543206)
That's a failure of education and politics, not an indicator of what needs additional money.
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by thehappypm on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:55AM (#28552626)
How so? “Dad is dying because we can’t afford his cancer treatment” vs “in 50 years, there will be geopolitical unrest”
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Re:Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. He... by jjcon on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:17PM (#28543154)
Not sure what that is supposed to mean? Well need healthcare regardless of climate change effects
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