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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I think it's worse, actually. People genuinely don't want to stop climate change if it requires any personal financial sacrifice.

The carbon tax pays out exactly as much as it takes in, even, and it's not enough.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 5 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Totally. The Me Last generation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Just to make sure I've pissed off everyone, it's not boomers buying Temu every week. Climate change is a very abstract, slow moving problem, and if I had to guess humans just have a limit.

The funny thing is, we talk mad shit about frogs, but they actually will jump out of a pot that gets too warm - although they probably don't think too deeply about it, as much as they just get uncomfortable.

[–] gerbler 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah in the experiment that is often referenced; the frogs had to be lobotomised to stop them just jumping out of the pot whenever they felt like it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

At least in the original experiment, anyway. According to Wikipedia, later Victorian authors claimed it always worked, but modern scientists think that's huey. Ponds can and do get slowly too hot in nature, so it'd be weird if that was just lethal.

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