The sad truth about our boldest climate target

[perfunctory]

This is one if the best writings on climate crisis I’ve read recently. To add my two cents

"I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win."

-- Richard Stallman

Fuck hope and optimism. I am gonna go out and fight no matter what. Doing nothing makes me sick.

[jerry292]

Hey God bless you, me too! If there is anything inspiring about watching David Attenborough films, other than our gorgeous Earth, it is that nature has the processes to recover. Even in the worst of conditions. Just look at Chernobyl. A whole ecosystem returned and is thriving better than the ecosystem on the outer perimeter of it.

[everdev]

> They believe that without that public optimism, the fragile effort to battle climate change will collapse completely.

I can imagine this being true.

If a meteor is going to destroy Earth you probably aren't spending your last few days doing the dishes and sweeping the floors. You're only doing that if there's a > 50% chance that we'll be able to divert it.

And better than "being optimistic" is rapidly developing the technology and passing the law to make it realistic.

[jerry292]

Man if Al Gore was elected we may have had a shot in 2000. But I guess Florida voted to grow gills.

[masonic]

Few people have lifestyles as environmentally damaging as Al Gore, with his huge energy-wasting estate and private jet.

[everdev]

I knew someone who lived in Broward county and voted for Bush in the 2000 election. His reason: Gore was boring.

Not everyone sizes up the issues.