IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The problem is when people claim the end of the world they get put into the “crazy” box. A lot of people throughout human history have claimed “the end of times” due to delusion or misinformation.

    What we have now though is actual scientific evidence that shows what’s going to happen and that it’s happening.

    The best time to start fixing this was 40 years ago. The second best time is now.

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          And again when you tried using the apocalypse is here as a scare tactic for several decades, when facts alone would have sufficed

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            facts alone would have sufficed

            But they didn’t. We were presented with the facts in the 80’s. We saw the effects in the early 2000’s. Remember the hole in the ozone layer? The one caused by mass pollution? Govts around the world chose to believe science and ban the production of a lot of chemicals and the ozone layer healed.

            Then everyone collectively forgot pollution was dangerous and started pumping it out as much as they could legally* get away with.

            *It’s not hard to get away with doing it illegally