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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics | How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 week ago (9 children)

"The world" hasn't soured on Climate politics. Just the world's politicians have. Not that they ever really tried to do anything about it. They're just tired of pretending to care, at this point.

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Just the world's politicians have

Not sure this is true. When people have more percieved short term problems (war, job security, inflation, etc), percieved long term problems become less important, especially if the proposed solutions have a negative impact on the short term problems.

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