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    Because extremely rich people have gotten extremely much richer and they still want more

    They dont give a shit if the world blows up. They think they have money, they think their money will save them, they think they can build their zombie fortress and they’ll be fine

    They won’t, of course but that is besides the point

    Then here are the tech bros who think that just another datacenter will for sure give us real AI that will magically solve all our problems tomorrow, just give us a few billion dollars more, it will surely work this time bro! And politicians, the idiots that they all are, actually listen to that, and believe it.

    Then there are the dumb votes who hear climate change and hear “tax raising” because of course they’re right because instead of taking the billions from the billionaire donors, politicians will just have the poor pay for whatever fix, just as we, the people had to get rid of straws because that will fix it, just as we the people will have to start paying.kore for food and and and…

    Instead we need only one fucking politician in charge who is willing to cap net worth at 10 million dollars. After that, all your income goes to taxes. Companies must be capped at a billion dollars networth. Anything over that, 100% to tax.

    THAT will give a good income that can be used for a great socialist framework with free healthcare, free housing, free education, free all the basics, maybe even UBI. THAT will give governments the money to invest in climate change but also invest in thousands more smaller companies that can innovate instead of resting on brand recognition.

    Fuck the rich and powerful, they must ALL be stripped down to normal levels of we want to survive

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    I’ve seen like half a dozen articles asking questions like this in the last week.

    Money.

    The answer is money.

    The answer has always been money.

    The answer will always be money.

    There is no point in asking this question because everyone already knows it’s money.

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    7 hours ago

    Leadershit: “Why aren’t people cranking out new victims reproducing anymore?”

    Younger generation: “Fix this shit or we are canceling the next generation.”

    Leadershit: (LotR Isildur meme) “No”

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    No one’s willing to go first and put themselves at a competitive disadvantage. It needs to be uniform action. And without the US willing to participate it’ll be as slow as molasses.

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      This is the reason that every billionaire rails against a scary “new world order” or “one world government” or just the UN doing its job… They don’t want to actually be held to anything.

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      If only it was just humanity, it would be fine. A dead end species. We’re taking everything with us, which is the real crime.

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        Well, the planet will bounce back without us. Sure, it won’t be the same… but a billion years ago was pretty different from now.

        Great Oxygenation Event: Around 2.4 billion years ago, a type of photosynthetic microorganism—cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae—began producing large amounts of oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. At the time, Earth’s atmosphere had almost no oxygen, and this new oxygen was actually toxic to most existing life. The result was it killed most of the life on earth including itself, and new life forms adapted to oxygen.

        So in a few billion more years, whatever intelligent life pops up will look back and think of us as just another algae problem.

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          David Kipping introduced me to the idea that the window of opportunity for intelligent life may be far smaller than we used to think. It’s a companion to the Rare Earth hypothesis of having so many variables that MIGHT need to exist to make things work, but assuming all conditions are good for what we consider hospitable, how long a planet has before the star changes and how soon basic life starts is not that long cosmically.

          Simply put, new life after whatever this climate run stabilized to won’t have a billion years before the Sun begins to change. Not turn into a red giant or dwarf, those are far off still, but it will begin its path towards those long before the actual event, and conditions here will worsen for a teeming biosphere.

          To quote “Hamilton”, life only gets probably one shot. Maybe two or three if it’s fast, but we can probably count a few of the mass extinctions that set things back for that.

          • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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            If humans didn’t have sufficient numbers and intelligence to take advantage of the stable climate of the last hundred thousand years we’d either be extinct or hunter gatherers.

            Now that we’ve used up most of the accessible fossil fuels another species won’t be able to industrialize, especially in the next billion years before the sun starts to warm the earth beyond habitability.

            Apathetic bloody planet. I’ve no sympathy at all.

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    There will be movement after the first half a billion people starve to death, and when the environment forces another billion or so to move.