DeadWorld@lemm.eeM to BrainWorms@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year agoHeat is making Earth uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?www.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down118file-textcross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1193arrow-down1external-linkHeat is making Earth uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world?www.salon.comDeadWorld@lemm.eeM to BrainWorms@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down4·1 year agoCapitalism. Because money is more important than life.
minus-squareViatorem@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoEconomic system so good it caused a mass extinction event
minus-squarePilferJynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWe’ve looked at the data. It looks grim and concluded that it costs too much to avoid extinction.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNot that Soviet Union, Eastern European socialist states, China etc have been great for the environment.
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThat’s not true, but I don’t care to refute a talking point from 1991. Google it .
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoI don’t know why you’d even bother to make a reply at that point
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoJust googled it. None of the top 10 countries are socialist.
minus-squarePatFusty@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWould you be willing to take minimum wage pay for the rest of your life if it meant you would save the earth a fraction of a percent?
Capitalism. Because money is more important than life.
Economic system so good it caused a mass extinction event
We’ve looked at the data. It looks grim and concluded that it costs too much to avoid extinction.
Not that Soviet Union, Eastern European socialist states, China etc have been great for the environment.
That’s not true, but I don’t care to refute a talking point from 1991. Google it .
I don’t know why you’d even bother to make a reply at that point
Just googled it. None of the top 10 countries are socialist.
Would you be willing to take minimum wage pay for the rest of your life if it meant you would save the earth a fraction of a percent?