And guess what … most of the people who ‘did what they could’ just kept driving their cars. ‘What choice did we have?’ None.

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    18 hours ago

    He is partly right. We’re fucked. Seriously seriously fucked. He is also incorrect, in that without radical action to deviate from our current trajectory, it can and will get much much worse.

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    This is why the rich are trying to cull the poor. I’m not joking. What you see happening is very much by design, and the wealthy think it’s necessary. They believe the most effective way to fight climate change is to get rid of all the poors and undesirables

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    "It seems that we live in a very dark time, and we do. The human race has been on a very destructive path for quite a while, and we have these hideous weapons and hideous powers that can turn that destructive path into true cataclysm.

    But at the same time, an awakening is occurring and that awakening is being leveraged through the internet. It’s a consciousness awakening all around the world. And it’s that awakening of consciousness that the best hope for the future of humanity lies. - Graham Hancock

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      Lol. The great awakening is that everyone is fucked and they’ve been suckered by cults led by the rich.

      Oh, wait, no, they haven’t learned anything or awakened one bit.

      If only the pyramids could energy cube our alien salvation!

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      I absolutely do not agree. Will things get worse? Yes, no sugar-coating it. But every fraction of a degree matters, and defeatism gets us nowhere. There’s still plenty to be done. So either get on board with helping, or stay out of the way, rather than trying to drag the rest of us down.

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      I’m so scared how many people just keep on keeping on and have no cares.

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      No fuck that. We’re all in this together.

      Tribalism ensures everyone’s defeat as the world burns

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        Tribalism does’t mean we should not fight and replace them. They will burn down the world but want you to suffer most and die first. They drove you into this for their wealth and economy.

        If you don’t want to fight and replace them, then keep on recycling your plastic straws while fossil-fuel companies pump trillons of CO2 cubic feets in air and their execs and your government officals pump trillions of dollars, of the same money you work and pay for, into their pockets.

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        billionares and super wealthy government officials and fossil-fuel execs who get paid too-much-to-say-no to burning the world with you in it

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          Don’t forget to check out which people use the “Us vs Them” mentality the most :)

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            Using it to describe the vernacular is different than employing the tactic.

            Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin are all dead.

            Seems it’s a safe thing to describe it.

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              Why is it a safe way to describe it? Just because you deem yourself on the “right side” doesn’t make the mentality any less dangerous.

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    Sure we would also all be under water by 2005 or something.

    Look, I do believe there’s some damage to the environment made by human activity, however these guys lost all their credibility after all the shit that Al Gore said for years and years that fortunately never happened. Anyways, did you notice that the artic sea ice is peaking right now?..