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Originally Posted by elphenor
It's not an all or nothing game with GW either
we have an idea of how much emissions to reduce to buy time at least until I'm old enough to not give a **** too
there's also some interesting permanent solutions being devised so reducing effects short term gives humanity a chance
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And yet the conversation has been so degraded in this country (and presumably China too I guess), the biggest (or second biggest) contributor to global warming, that we can't even agree that it's man made and the side who actually might do something about it doesn't have the balls to stand up to the republicans, and I imagine the democrats are too beholden to their corporate backers to do anything but half-measures that don't threaten all those greased wheels.
The sheer fact that it's gotten to this point and that half the ****ing country thinks it's a conspiracy is some pretty damn good evidence of just how useless people are for acting in their best interest outside of their own immediate micro world (e.g. friends, family, their job, etc). You can brainstorm all the **** you want but it's pissing into the wind until the effects of global warming become completely undeniable, and even then I would not be surprised if conservatives were still able to bury their heads in the sand and at least slow down any useful measures we might take.
Global warming is almost a foregone conclusion at this point as far as I'm concerned. So **** my fellow man until they can prove me wrong. They're not worth my time, effort, or emotional investment, anymore than I am to them.