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James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

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[–] sam_uk 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah, quite a bit personally. I live in the West, so my lifestyle is quite carbon heavy.

[–] Sandman89 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Don't feed into the narrative that it's an "all of us" thing. Your actions in society are decided by what that society makes available, and what it doesn't.

As a fellow Westerner, our only flaw was that we didn't use every available means to get the corporations and governments who actually bear the blame to own the issue and fix it with their own ill-gotten gains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

In the US, climate change/global warming has rarely been important to voters.

Here are the "issues of the day" for the presidential elections since the 60s (scraped from here):

  • 2020: COVID-19 pandemic, racial tensions, deeply polarized electorate
  • 2016: Health care costs, Economic inequality, Terrorism, Foreign policy (Russia, Iran, Syria, Brexit), Gun control, Treatment of minorities, Immigration policy, Shifting media landscape
  • 2012: Role of government, Spending & tax rates, Nuclear Iran, Arab Spring, Global warming, Campaign finance
  • 2008: Great Recession, Financial panic, Bailouts, Iraq War
  • 2004: Terrorism, Iraq War, Job growth
  • 2000: Impeachment, Presidential ethics, Good economy
  • 1996: Waco standoff, Oklahoma City bombing, Good economy
  • 1992: Persian Gulf War, Fall of Berlin Wall and Breakup of Soviet Union, Recession
  • 1988: Stock market crash, Iran-Contra, Progress in US-USSR relations (INF Treaty)
  • 1984: Recession and Subsequent Recovery (start of bull market for stocks), Defense Spending
  • 1980: Iran hostage crisis, USSR invasion of Afghanistan (Summer Olympics boycott), Inflation
  • 1976: Watergate (Impeachment, pardon of Nixon)
  • 1972: Vietnam War, International Relations (Detente with USSR, Visit to China), Watergate
  • 1968: Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Assassinations (Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King)
  • 1964: Great Society (Civil Rights), Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin), Good Economy
  • 1960: Sputnik/space (keeping up with USSR technologically)

Regular people aren't totally innocent here.

EDIT: fixed some formatting

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