Like, the planet is gonna be uninhabitable???

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    True facts, and I think the main reason for the West's complete failure of imagination around addressing climate change through policy. We had a whole unit on nudge theory in a policy class that I took because anything more involved than redesigning a form is A u T h O r I t A r I a N i S m. It's to the point where the Heritage Foundation's own idea for carbon markets is now considered a lefty pipe dream.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      "Authoritarianism" is such a bizarre, brain rotting cliche. Bedtime? Authoritarianism. Changing your nappies? Authoritarianism! Forcing people at gun-point to not destroy the world and all life upon it? Red fash tankie evil gommunism authoritarianism!:?!>?!!!!!!#@4hyg u89-ip1rhj9-23ehf214

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Ironic because it's the climate crisis that undid my fear of communism in the first place.

        "Wait, so everyone is tacitly okay with pollution but nazism came back as a totally grassroots movement? Ok, maybe authoritarianism isn't so bad after all...."