• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was the whole idea. They don’t want an EPA. It’s going to take most of a century for climate change to really fuck shit up, and that’s a long enough time that they don’t care. If they even believe in it in the first place, and don’t ascribe to more biblical interpretations anyway.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s going to take most of a century for climate change to really fuck shit up,

      That may be what these people think but it really isn’t going to take that long. We already have extreme storms and fires destroying towns and cities in the USA, and worse and worse flooding to the point where insurance companies are pulling out of whole regions. There are permanent droughts too, and extinctions threatening whole food chains. It’s progressing faster now, and will continue to get worse faster and faster. It will not take a century for this to become very bad indeed.

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        3 hours ago

        This is pretty mild compared to what the future holds if things remain unchanged. Billions haven’t been displaced/killed yet.