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Re:Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate cris... by tcgv on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:22AM (#36861210)
If there are two things that I've learned from the pandemic is that i) societies fail to prevent totally predictable catastrophic events if doing so is detrimental to their economies and ii) societies only commit to solving these problems when there's really no other option (and even so it won't be smooth nor will everyone agree on how to handle it).

So yeah, I'm pessimistic about how climate change will unfold.

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Re:Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate cris... by ThalesX on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:36AM (#36861331)
> So yeah, I'm pessimistic about how climate change will unfold.

It's probably not even a black and white thing honestly. For the person dealing with unlivable temperatures in India it might feel one way. For the person living in Siberia that just got a couple of hectares of farmland it might feel differently.

I'd wager a bet that in the future, more people will be impacted by war caused by climate change than the actual climate change effects, if we cannot solve the issue technologically.

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