• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Considering we can’t even get heads or state or imagining-they’re-heads-of-states to not:

    • Wage war on neighboring countries.
    • Try to usurp their own government.
    • Promote wild conspiracy theories.
    • Be ragingly against personal freedom even in the US, the countries that is supposedly all about that.
    • Be ragingly anti-intellectual.

    … I really have exactly zero hope we can do shit-all about climate issues. We can’t even handle far smaller and far more benign (by comparison) issues on a national level, what hope do we have to handle things that require everyone to pull in the same direction, on an international one.

    • Gnugit@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      How many trees did you plant this week? I planted around 10 so far.

      • r_wraith@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        What is it about trees? Any time someone posts something about the problems of some plans to fight climate change on Lemmy or Reddit, someone posts a reply like yours. And every tine news about climate activists are posted, someone else posts something about that they had better planted some trees. Planting trees is a commendable effort and a great first step, but you do know that (if I understand earth’s climate history correctly) earth was covered in trees when CO2-levels were as high as today or even higher? Only by sequestrating fallen trees underground through sedimentation (and converting them to coal and later oil) did CO2-levels in the atmosphere begin to drop.