• donut4ever@lemm.ee
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      People won’t care until it’s in their backyard. A couple of ads from BP and they’ll blame themselves a bit then start “recycling” their water bottles not knowing that recycling is bullshit.

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        The problem is, it’s already in our backyards. From record breaking forest fires, to record breaking heat, and record breaking droughts…

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          Every republican I’ve ever talked to says, “this is a normal climate cycle, and it happens throughout history”. It is like they were all taught the same thing.

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        most of australia’s recycling ends up in Indonesia being melted down and thus polluting the environment anyway.

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          US trash used to go China, but now they don’t take it anymore, so I don’t know what landfill they threw it in

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        1 year ago

        hey, but how far does your backyard go? Don’t you feel at least for your city, your country? Why not something bigger?

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          It goes as far as their backyard goes. There is a lot of “me me” in this world, my friend

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            There is also “us” which is a larger “me”. Large problem like unintentional geoengineering needs large “us” to control and reverse. There are political implications of this kind of “us”.