In many ways, this is business as usual. Climate change is an international problem requiring international cooperation, the possibilities for which are determined by geopolitics. But this year, something more unsettling is emerging: climate change is itself beginning to impact geopolitics.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Counterpoint by the powerful capitalists that choose how much action to take through their captured world governments:

    The price of our inaction will be externalized and passed onto you poories when we run away to our luxury bunker tombs to sip oak aged bourbons and live out our final years nonsensically blaming your weathered corpses sitting above our heads for what we did.

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      5 hours ago

      Yup the age old meme / comic still applies

      But as you said in this case it will be the wealthy living out the final years of the human race stocked up on the most luxurious things wondering how we ever got to that point