"As a result of the burning of fossil fuels, heatwaves are becoming more common, and intense heatwaves are more frequent," said one researcher. "We can break the cycle, we can make oil companies stop burning fossil fuels."
  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 months ago

    "We can break the cycle, we can make oil companies stop burning fossil fuels."

    I'm really wondering when there's going to be some kind of widespread acceptance that global warming cannot be stopped or reversed and this is just how it's gonna be for a few thousand years.

    • EatPotatoes [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Like the idea of mitigation or extinction feels psyopy too when we need to figure out ways to survive.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        True dat. We will survive in some form, but it's very much a socialism or barbarism scenario and we're rocketing in to barbarism. We can definitely make things less bad, but it's not going to happen if the West remains under capitalist hegemony.