As a reminder for those you in the comments. "Climate change is real, but it's too late to do anything" is the new "climate change is real but it's not man made," which was the new "climate change isn't real"
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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"Progress" implies it's getting better
Progress towards starting to start beginning to address the root cause of why we're not starting to resolve the issue
We're never going to stop or even mitigate climate change...
Yes, we will. Or we'll die. We won't die. A lot of people will die, and it will be horrible. We won't do enough and we won't do it fast enough or soon enough. But we will do it.
No nation-state in my lifetime has taken the real and necessary steps to mitigate/slow it.
Tankies will crow about China, but the truth is that China adopted the happy motoring lifestyle after relying on bicycles for decades.
Unless you drastically reduce cars and airplanes and cargo ships, nothing will change. Unless we pretty much stop eating beef, nothing will change.
If you actually priced environmental damage into the cost of oil, literally no business would be profitable. Instead we even subsidize it. The result is the world we have now.
We will suck every drop of oil from the ground even as we are choking on the CO2