• agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Man that’s environmental scientists catch phrase lately, “No one wants to be right about this.” I really wish people(cough governments) would take them seriously.

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      1 year ago

      I got a feeling governments do. It’s just an unpopular opinion to do it and the government cares more about that. It’s the public that are the issue.

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        Yeah, that is a major problem with how Western democracies are put together. It is going to cost a lot of money to do anything effectively, so governments would rather postpone any action until the next government takes over, then it will be their problem. And of course this line of thought continues with the next government.

        Long term plans with any meaningful changes are just not suitable for our kind of political systems.

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          Even if everyone agrees it’s bad, nobody wants to deal with the decrease in quality of life it’ll take to fix it; least of all those who won’t suffer as much, or will be dead long before the worst of it starts to hit.