“What everyone is missing about climate change is that it’s not about saving the planet or about science: it’s about people. Earth will survive – it’ll be different, but it will carry on. Humans are the ones at risk.”

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    “Another species will die” does not spur action quite like “you and everyone you love will die”. To be entirely fair, this behaviour is not uniquely human. We aren’t that special.

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      4 months ago

      I get the motivational part. It’s just the “earth will move on, lol” part that’s unnecessarily cruel and pisses me off.