The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away

  • BMTea@lemmy.world
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    I never understood the obsession with big oil. Oil and gas firms have strong lobby power but it’s actually the economics of cheap fossil fuels and nations’ desires to out-compete each other in growth and industry that are driving the demand.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    And the world reacts exactly like Americans when there is a school shooting.

    Thoughts, prayers, some aid, pearl clutching & zero actions.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vg
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    The UN seems to be running out of vocabulary to describe how serious the danger is.

    “they should’ve sent a poet”

  • lettruthout@lemmy.world
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    And we’re killing ourselves by not changing what we each can.

    We need to act globally AND personally.