https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/opinion/houston-flooding-climate-change.html

  • buh [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    “Unlimited genocide on the first world” says essay published in the New York Times

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      “Unlimited genocide on the first world”

      This piece just falls in line with wishing genocide on the rest of the world

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      if we didn't progressively kill off all the animals and people on the planet, how else would the failson of a failson of a failson from 400 years back continue to keep failing sustainably?

  • mao9000 [any]
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    2 years ago

    Obviously the NYT take on it is fucking garbage but barring some kind of sci-fi technology that can recapture carbon and all that, we're not fucking stopping climate change. It's just not happening. This is the reality we are going to face and I think it's probably best to get that through as many people's head as possible, as soon as possible.

    And yes, I know c/doomer is over there.

  • Nounverb [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Of course we'll sell your desperate ass a house in a flood zone, but we take no responsibility :capitalist-laugh:

  • PZK [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What I have always found bullshit about these "opinion" sections is that they are just a way for them to say what they actually think without getting backlash for it. You find some :brainworms: opinion you agree with and post it under the guise of "Hey man, this isn't us saying this... it's you."

    "Someone said that you have to sacrifice people's homes and lives to capitalism, make sure it gets put in the opinion section."

    "What about this other guy that says we are a bought and paid for propaganda machine for capital?"

    "We are not posting that one."

  • buttwater [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    They're saying that the "holdouts" in historic neighborhoods are putting themselves in danger by denying climate change, it's an unfortunate reality aka reality

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Headline is missing “…so the economy can grow “

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I guess that it's right that it is necessary to move away if climate collapse makes your neighbourhood uninhabitable.

    Weird how we got to the point where stuff like this became necessary. It's not like we've had ample warning and literal decades to avoid this, it's just that the people in charge deliberately deliberately drove past every off ramp.