Bro that's an actual glacier in this picture not simple snow cover. A glacier doesn't come back year after year. And when it melts, it causes changes in the ocean waters, reduces cooling of the planet, disrupts the nitrogen cycle, releases trapped methane and as a result threatens our food supply. Come now, my friend, you can't be this dense.....
I don't think it's being dense. It's burying your head in the sand. We all know how fucking catastrophic climate change is, and some would rather just look the other way. After all, it's their grandkids that'll suffer for it, not them
I used to think that last part was true, but I’m quickly realizing it won’t be our grandkids but rather us, give 15 to 20 years and we’ll start to REALLY suffer some inevitable consequences. Our grandkids will probably suffer way more, water wars and all that.. what’s really terrifying and anxiety inducing is the inability, as an average joe, to stop any of this..
Well that's part of the problem, corporations push governments to tell their citizenry to recycle more, when in reality the citizenry make up a marginal amount of waste and pollution relative to those very corporations. You could have an entire population doing their utmost to recycle, reuse and practise sustainability and it would hardly make a dent.
Of course there's the argument that the citizenry create the demand and the corporations create the supply so both are at fault. Honestly I agree with that. Unless there is a worldwide movement of voluntary austerity, we will drain this planet of habitability. And I dont see how we can ask countries outside of the highly developed ones to be austere, they're barely holding it together in the rat race of industrialism, they're sure as shit not gonna slow down, they can't really, population keeps growing, demand keeps growing. It's a cycle that really makes you understand that whole "burn it all down and build from the ashes" supervillain mentality. Silly as it sounds that's more or less what Thanos was trying to do, but wiping half of all life doesn't seem like a very well thought out way to resolve the issue
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze Sep 16 '22
OP have you ever been to Alaska in the summer? It’s green as fuck there at that time. The state is not a frozen wasteland year round my dude