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It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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No fucking shit. How many articles do we need saying this same damn thing?
Only when people paying attention to an issue are completely sick of seeing the same message again and again does it start to sink in with the general public. So a lot.
This is one hill we'll have to drag the deniers over kicking and screaming. I doubt they will ever come around, even as the weather gets to the point of melting their face.
This, exactly.
We are never going to convince them. We have to figure out a way to move forward without their support.
People don't give a shit and they're never going to until it's far too late to do anything about it. Hell, we're probably already there and still no one who matters gives a shit.
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This graph makes me sad.
Plenty of jobs available in the renewables sector, or the agtech sector, or clean transport
Doing something that helps, and getting paid for it, eases the existential dread :)
dems not even really behind this 😐