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People are disenfrenchised. Why should they care more about the weather than the medical system, corruption, wild animals or all the other problems. People know, they are just trained to not get involved.
Showing the problem trains them to ignore it more. What they need is confidence in their own abilities.
Because this weather directly leads to forest fires, floods and storms that can seriously ruin their life.
What life. Speaking for the US, our country is being dismantled by Nazis and half the country seems blissfully unaware.
Are you implying everyone is dead? Because that isn't the case.
Even if it sucks, that doesn't mean you have to make it suck even more. That is counter productive.
Stop your doomerism and actually DO something. Life is far from being over. Even if it it takes loading everything in a vehicle and moving away. The US is not the center of the Earth.
The US: “haha the French surrender a lot”
Reality: The French actually protest shit and US citizens will roll over and die if you tell them cheeseburger prices might go up a dollar if they resist.
I’m in Canada and we’re really not much better in many ways, but we can always look to the US for comfort knowing we’re not that bad.
French surrender jokes are a British thing, not American.
Ehh, definitely see it a lot in the 'murican zone. Maybe they picked it up from the british, but between the freedom fries and the white flag, the average yankee has a lot of disdain for the frog.
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Sure, and apart from maybe bringing a temporary headline from some dramatic act of eco-terrorism, what's the average person's options at their disposal?
Granted, you're posting from a European account (hi from the US where this issue is even worse), but at the civilian level with people who do not have the capital or political influence to interrupt the engine of society, why risk anything by trying? For such marginal effect?
Sowing desperation is one of the strategies of the fossil lobby.
If people organize, they have tremendous power. Going to protests, making a local group to prevent ecocidal developments. Scrutinizing the deals of local government with companies known to are particularly destructive, organizing targeted consumer boycotts, making it a key issue in who you vote for or don't vote for.
The lobbies are scared of people breaking the apathy, so they spend enormous amounts of money on maintaining it. But if it breaks, it breaks hard and you could see changes in a year that seemed impossible in a lifetime before.
Listen to the experts, they have plenty of things the average person can do that don't require you to commit terrorism.
those experts say that the individual efforts to curb global warming is insignificant compared to other methods. its a waste of time akin to telling everyone to recycle, only for the dump to mix it in with all the other trash.
its theater to make people think that they are doing their part so they don’t band together and demand action. just like the ‘good’ protesting we do in the states is designed in a way to give people the illusion of making a difference all wile being easily controllable, and easily dismissed. when considered that its actually used as a method of control, preaching for individual efforts to curb global warming is worse then doing nothing because you stand in the way of the conversation that must be taken to actually solve the problem.
You could collect rain water to mitigate the impact of drought. Pretty much anyone should be able to manage that.