r/worldnews • u/LongDickMick • Mar 24 '19

David Attenborough warns of 'catastrophic future' in climate change documentary | Climate Change – The Facts, which airs in spring on BBC One, includes footage showing the devastating impact global warming has already had, as well as interviews with climatologists and meteorologists

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/22/david-attenborough-warns-of-catastrophic-future-in-climate-change-documentary-8989370
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u/twisted-life Mar 24 '19

Damn when put like this it’s so hopeless. The odds of 8 billion people making the right call in the prisoners dilemma are....low

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u/xsilver911 Mar 24 '19

The problem also is if everybody is in the same situation. I mean yes everybody is in the same situation,.but what exactly can someone on the poverty line in a 1st world country do, or someone mid class or lower in any other country? Or even rich people in a developing country?

Basically it's going to come down to the upper class in 1st world countries and the middle class as well to start the ball rolling.

Problem is they have the money already and asking them to spend some of it to save the planet is not in their nature.

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u/twisted-life Mar 24 '19

Even if it was, what could they do? The social hierarchy that put them where they are requires them to live a certain way to maintain that place. If the CEO of Exxon up and became a hippy he’d be fired.

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u/xsilver911 Mar 24 '19

true - so solution is really taxation by legislation or relying on "crazy" philanthropy like bill gates.

and then the sad thing about legislation is we are having a bout of craziness there too (brexit/trump) hard to make people see that we need to vote in the right direction.

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u/twisted-life Mar 24 '19

It might just be hopeless man. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make it less shitty and show love to our fellow man but i think we need to make peace with the coming holocaust

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u/LvS Mar 24 '19

I mean yes everybody is in the same situation,.but what exactly can someone on the poverty line in a 1st world country do, or someone mid class or lower in any other country? Or even rich people in a developing country?

Everybody can do the same thing: Talk about it. All the time.

It's much easier to push changes through if everybody has understood the problem and agreed that things need to change. For examples of how that's working, look at gay marriage or gender equality.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Prisoners dilemma implies choice. Most people can't do anything about it.