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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To watch climate change is to know what the deer in the headlights must feel.

Powerless to change alter fate and prevent our death, while being forced to watch it's screeching approach.

[–] Burn_The_Right 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We wouldn't be powerless to change, though, if conservatives were not working tirelessly to prevent us from changing. Conservatives are holding the wheel and forcing us off the cliff. And they are mocking us as they kill us.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We’re witnessing the birth of the new pasture lands the deer will graze on after humanity has been roasted off the planet.

Think positive

[–] deus 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think there are deer on Antarctica, or any herbivores for that matter. It would be interesting to wait thousands of years and see what comes around to fill that niche.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There aren't any now

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Deer usually have ample power to prevent their death; most of the time they have sufficient time to get out of the way, but they do not do so.

Which really makes the comparison even more on point, since as a whole our civilization could have taken action but chose not to.