Escalating rhetoric comes as new study shows there’s just six years left to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius at current CO2 emissions rate
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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Death .. Especially death of hundreds or thousands
No one cares until people, lots of people start dying ... because it implies that everyone is at risk of getting killed by these events.
In the meantime, when there's just damaged houses and people calling in their insurances .... it's all just a curiosity and a neat headline.
No one will care until we see the death toll rise
Yeah... Sadly this is the most likely outcome.
You know, i used to think that too. Then Covid happened and it turned out that even more americans dying every few days than did during 9/11 from an easily preventable disease still saw outright denial and anger at anyone who took even the simplest and smallest of precautions.