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People Are Overly Obsessed With Climate Change And Do Not Care About Other Issues. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 1 year ago by Prettyblackroses to c/unpopularopinion

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They get unnecessarily VIOLENTLY angry if you address how other political issues are also important.

They are rabid, and do not have 'chill' mode. It's impossible talking to them at all. They also force their beliefs about using public transportation on everyone when they don't take into account that not everyone lives in a city.

Also, they fail to acknowledge that public transportation is not safe.

Listen, I get that climate change is a thing. But it's not THEE ultimate and almighty issue.

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[–] InvaderDJ 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think climate change threatens to kill everyone in the medium term at least right? It threatens to make large portions of the world uninhabitable and spark wars, civil unrest, etc as people fight over dwindling resources.

[–] AA5B 3 points 1 year ago

That’s the problem: it may not be impending but it is urgent. The effects of climate change will get gradually worse over decades, but that doesn’t mean we have decades to fix it. Nor that we can wait until it gets bad before fixing it. How do you instill urgency for a crisis that needs action now, even if the worst effects are still decades in the future?

Excess carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for decades to centuries. This year’s pollution might not seem to bad in this year but will make things worse for many years to come.

We still don’t fully understand tipping points but they do exist. What happens when we pass one that “suddenly” makes things even worse, but is irreversible? We may already have started one or more in process and don’t even know it yet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Your right, we don't know how much time we have left, but we know the earth is becoming unsustainable. 4 generations? 10? we can't say.

The fighting over dwindling safe places to live will probably be the actual thing that wipes us out, but the root cause will be the climate change.