• MTK@lemmy.world
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    I think people are missing the point, it’s not about who survives, it’s about who dies and suffers.

    If I told you (made up numbers) that in the next 50 years, 100 million people will die an average of 20 years early because of climate change. Sure, 100 million is just about 1.3% of humans, but it’s still 100 million people, who will die at 50 instaed of 70, or at 25 instead of 45, these are people who will probably die from heat, from natrual disasters, from famine, from poor health as economies collapse.

    We won’t be fine, someone will be, but WE, as a group, won’t be fine.

    In fact, we are already not fine but it’s mostly felt in poor contries.

    Not to kill the mood but the harsh truth is that the generations before us doomed a lot of us, and the current generations are just starting to get it, and future generations will truly feel the ignorance of our past and the indifference of our present.

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        It’s more of a “teacher’s numbers” game where they walk by the line and just pint, “one, two, three, one, two, three” all the ones die under 50. The twos, live to be 70… Etc. Maybe with more numbers.

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      No, kill the mood. Stab it in it’s stupid fucking face and kick it’s corpse out of the way. All it’s done is be an obstacle because weak people are too uncomfortable doing little things and even more whiny now that the need is far greater.

      You’re exactly right and put it perfectly: “it’s not about who survives, it’s about who suffers and dies”. People will die over something we have endless solutions to but will never put in place because the weakest, most fragile little snot-nosed fucks are afraid of the slightest discomfort.

      It’s disgusting, end of.

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      Generations of the past had plausible deniability. Most of them may not have known what they were doing.

      We knew. We’re well informed of the consequences. And we kept making it worse. We’re still making it worse. We still have too much of the population unwilling to change. How do you think future generations will remember us?

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      We’re estimated to have lost about 15 million additional people in 2020/2021 due to covid and a disturbingly large amount of us were salty about being asked to cover their mouths in order to stave it off. Might favor certain groups, but it’s doom from every generation top to bottom.

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        If I look at it a certain way, we all come from a long line of millions of ancestors who barely scraped by or lucked out.

        Our instincts only go as far as what we can see, hear, feel, taste, smell or vibe. We are not wired to react well to invisible things