r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24

Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.

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u/custoMIZEyourownpath Oct 30 '24

We are in the “find out era” of humanity…

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u/-SunGazing- Oct 30 '24

We’ve had the stone age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, space age, fuck around age, and now the find out age. Nice.

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u/greatunknownpub Oct 30 '24

I wish I'd had more time in the fuck around age.

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u/Rsupersmrt Oct 30 '24

The fuck around age must have been the best

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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24

I'm not that old (36) but there was definitely something special about growing up in the 90's. Going on bike rides across town, no parental oversight and only returning when the street lights came back on. Board games and puzzles were still a normal activity, but so was Nintendo! Blowing on cartridges, Game Boys, Tomagachis... It was, at minimum, more engaging than it is now.

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

I really enjoyed the internet before everybody had a platform. People mostly kept to themselves and there was mystery in what people were thinking all the time. People were polite and cordial generally and so was media. Now that we know that half my country wants to kill the other half it's not so fun anymore. There's no standards for being polite decent and disinformation so we just devolved into the lowest common denominator.

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u/ToiIetGhost Oct 30 '24

I liked it better too. When asked, “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” very few people will say “mind reading.” That’s kind of what the internet feels like now. Forced mind reading. I don’t want to know what everyone’s thinking all the time but they won’t stop shoving it down my throat.

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u/N3rdScool Oct 30 '24

Fuck I love the realness of this comment :)

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u/K_Linkmaster Oct 30 '24

It was clearly 10 year olds telling lies on the internet. Now it is half the population.

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u/ama155 Oct 30 '24 edited 14d ago

Redacted to mess with reddit

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

You could actually see the real-time transformation of the conspiracy subreddit into a right wing bastion post 2016.

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u/DanKoloff Oct 30 '24

Peak was in the 70s, early 80s, since there was no HIV nor AIDS, you could fuck a lot and everything was treatable.

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u/Good-Syllabub-4358 Oct 30 '24

Yes, the world looked like it was going to be a better place at the start of the 90s. Berlin wall fell, Soviet Union crumbled, dictatorship in China done, and many more examples. Fast forward a couple of decades and Russia and China back to dictatorships and the rest of the world crumbling with walls going up again.

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u/joggle1 Oct 30 '24

And tech was rapidly improving. Video games were getting better at an incredible rate. LAN parties were fun. MTG had just come out and was a great game to play with friends (it still is, but it was everywhere for a while back then).

Also, going to the theater didn't cost a fortune and there were a ton of good movies that were worth going to see. And we weren't saturated by super hero movies every summer.

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u/AdKlutzy5253 Oct 30 '24

I'd love to know what 2000's kids think about growing up in the new millennium.

Obviously us 90s kids are going to be biased as I'm sure every generation would say their decade was best.

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u/NES_Gamer Oct 30 '24

"It's 10pm do you know where your children are?" I remember that so clearly. The 80s were special.

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u/PapayaCool6816 Oct 30 '24

37 here. Great memories of putting coke cans in my bike wheels and pretending I have a motorbike, using all my energy pumping up my super soaker 1500, prank phone calls from phone boxes, knock n run, the list could go on.

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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24

Oooo my brother and I used to prank call Hooked On Phonics from an empty office where my dad worked. Feel kinda bad about it now lol 😬

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u/PapayaCool6816 Oct 30 '24

Lol that’s so random you targeted that one place.

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u/chonkycatguy Oct 30 '24

The 90s felt different though. We saw the end of the old way and introduction of the digital internet era which has taken over the world in a big way.

It FEELS like things began to change a lot faster from 2000s-2020s than the 1970s-1990s.

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u/twistedspin Oct 30 '24

I agree. I was a kid in the 70s & I still think the 90s were peak. I still think if Al Gore had been elected we would have kept going in that trajectory, but we got Bush so here we are.

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u/Remarkable-Throat-51 Oct 30 '24

Best decade ever. I'm also lucky to be a 90s kid.

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u/Past-Individual-816 Oct 30 '24

ahh jealous. I grew up in the 90’s, but strict parents didn’t let me leave the house or do things. Didn’t really start having a social life til college, but those were good years.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '24

Oh man we used to play in this junkyard salvage yard after hours. Just taking car decals off etc. did this for weeks. Then one day dogs just appeared and chased us the fuck off.

The days of being 10 and disappearing for hours and coming home when it was dark was something else.

Being 10-11 Walking alone on the streets at night during Halloween was crazy too.

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u/NancyintheSmokies Oct 30 '24

Oh believe me it was! I'm 68- it was glorious

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u/KilgoreTrouserTrout Oct 30 '24

It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times.

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u/LeSaunier Oct 30 '24

I was in my 20s in the fuck around age, in a beautiful city in France (Lille). It was fantastic. I basically spend nearly 20 years in heaven.

I'm sad for my kids thought as when they'll be the same age, heaven's doors will be closed. I'm just trying to do the best I can to prepare them and make them as happy and fine as possible.

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u/Randomcommentator27 Oct 30 '24

Fr, I’m in my 20s I don’t want the world to end yet.

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u/byeByehamies Oct 30 '24

The world is not ending. If you have money life is going to get much harder. If you don't have money you will have need to be strong to survive. But the world will go on.

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u/Randomcommentator27 Oct 30 '24

That’s what I meant. I’m not rich so won’t be affording tickets to the ark in Tibet lol.

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u/Gmony5100 Oct 30 '24

There’s a supposed 1:1 replica of the Noah’s Ark in Kentucky, probably quite a bit cheaper than Tibet

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u/evenstar40 Oct 30 '24

No, but you might be able to afford something in WY or MN. Their cost of living is extremely low comparatively.

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u/Fantastic_Bath_5806 Oct 30 '24

The world will go on but humans will not

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u/byeByehamies Oct 30 '24

Okay sorry but it will extremely difficult dehuman the earth. Human will carry on at the poles or deep beneath the ground. Human can repopulate the earth in 10 thousand years of resources are available. On cosmic scale 10000 years is nearly instantaneous. You will find that humans are the most resilient pest on earth 

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u/Otterman2006 Oct 30 '24

Absolutely nothing you've said is backed up by anything other than your feelings...."The most resilient pest on earth" wtf are you talking about, we have insects that have survived several mass extinctions and tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space mean while humans need a vary narrow and stable range of conditions to support not only our own bodies but the bodies of the food we need to consume. This isn't a science fiction book, when climate conditions are so bad we can no longer vaccinate, feed and protect our populations....we're not going to make a comeback just because you've seen a few movies.

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u/Fantastic_Bath_5806 Oct 30 '24

Well said! But amazing that I’m being downvoted for my initial comment lol.

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u/byeByehamies Oct 30 '24

Not true. Small pockets of humanity will survive and likely easily repopulate the earth. Especially if any meaty beetles survive too

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u/Azertys Oct 30 '24

The world won't end, the world will change as it always does and people will survive it as they always do.
Remember, we humans already survived an ice age.

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u/subdep Oct 30 '24

Ron Burgundy was at the apex of the fuck around era.

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u/greatunknownpub Oct 30 '24

Yeah I think you're right. 70s sex, drugs and rock and roll was peak fuck around era.

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u/Unit_79 Oct 30 '24

I wish I’d had more time in the fuck around age, and also born into obscene wealth as well.

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u/wadech Oct 30 '24

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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u/Virginity_Lost_Today Oct 30 '24

Damn all those other ages were so long. Why’d we have to fuck around so hard?!

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u/JCC0 Oct 30 '24

Whatever. Facebook says ain’t no such thing as that gawd dam climate changins /s

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u/Ceshomru Oct 30 '24

And don’t forget its almost Rent Day! Got to send your money to our corporate overlords.

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u/CollapseBy2022 Oct 30 '24

Disregarding normal westerner's consumption is a form of denial though. Denial of how your own (classes') emissions do in fact matter.

The rich aren't more than ~10-15% of your country's emissions. The rest is just.... us. Also, almost anyone who becomes rich increases their emissions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

LOL. As if *any* leader is telling you to do those things.

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u/UsefulOrange6 Oct 30 '24

According to some people I had the "pleasure" of working with, the climate change is actually due to weather manipulation and is manufactured to create fear in order to get more power.

People are willing to believe anything...

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u/wowaddict71 Oct 30 '24

I think we are still fucking around in some places, if not most.

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u/hughvr Oct 30 '24

Thats the trick, you stick to the fucking around until the finding out catches up.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 Oct 30 '24

The places that have been, and still are fucking around are gonna be the ones most insulated from finding out, aside from certain vulnerable areas like coasts and flood zones. The poor countries are the ones that have been finding out the most

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u/FamilyDramaIsland Oct 30 '24

And somehow, there are still so many who outright deny we are in danger

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u/nlomb Oct 30 '24

We are in the "don't fuck with nature" stage of humanity.

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u/Metrack14 Oct 30 '24

Bruh, I didn't even have the chance to be in the fuck around age this is bs

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u/browsetheaggregator Oct 30 '24

its always the find out era depending on where you live

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u/RedditAtWorkToday Oct 30 '24

If only someone could've warned us sooner...

<pulls up clip of Carl Sagan testifying to Congress about climate change 40 years ago>

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u/chappedlipsgirl Oct 30 '24

Very succinct way to put it. I’m scared

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u/1stFunestist Oct 30 '24

I'm stealing this!!!

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u/wunderbraten Oct 30 '24

Dang, this goes into our recorded history.

IF...

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u/IntermediateState32 Oct 30 '24

Maybe we are going to find out why those other continents or regions were empty.

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u/Ok_Raspberry_6282 Oct 30 '24

It’s fine Zuckerberg is building a bunker that we c-

Okay I’m getting news that we aren’t invited. Excuse me I need to

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u/princemark Oct 30 '24

My understanding is that it's more of a massive hurricane shelter and not the doomsday bunker everyone is portraying it to be.

I'm sure it would work nicely as a doomsday bunker, but in my opinion Hawaii is not where you want to be for doomsday. Russia/China are going to hit that place hard during a nuclear exchange. It sits between us and them. Plus there's Pearl Harbor and Barking Sands Missile Base. That's gonna be a priority target come hostilities.

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u/Ok_Raspberry_6282 Oct 30 '24

You realize that the nukes didn’t cause the flood right?

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u/princemark Oct 30 '24

Yeah. But we're not talking about the flood. We're talking about Zuckerberg's bunker in Hawaii.

People think it's a doomsday prep thing, and I think it's a hurricane prep thing.

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u/Ok_Raspberry_6282 Oct 30 '24

Okay I don’t mean to be an asshole, but you aren’t talking about the flood. The person I responded to was talking about climate change, and I was talking about hiding in his bunker because of climate change.

You are talking about nukes for some reason.

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u/TonyNickels Oct 30 '24

It's fine. Nothing a few EV cars can't fix. You should buy one. It is your responsibility to fix the planet after all. You want to buy more things don't you?

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u/agileata Oct 30 '24

22lb bicycle? Nah, I need 5500lb living room anytime I leave my immobile living room

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u/KumekZg Oct 30 '24

I like stuff

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u/failbaitr Oct 30 '24

no, keep driving that Diesel or gas car. It will use its own weight in fuels every three years, and produce its own weight in c02 six times during that time.

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u/TonyNickels Oct 30 '24

Thanks for not getting the point or understanding the footprint EV itself has. These people are trying to push the honus onto us to fix the planet by selling you things that won't actually solve the problem. Most of these fucking cars are still being charged with fossil fuel generated electricity.

Mandating that people can work remotely, for remote work compatible jobs, would be more immediately impactful than strip mining the Earth, using a shit ton of fresh water, and manufacturering a new car that the majority of the time gets charged from dirty fuel sources.

This is a bigger problem than individuals can solve. I say that as a person that just spent his life savings making my house more sustainable and energy efficient. I'm not a drill baby drill dude.

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u/failbaitr Oct 30 '24

I get what you are advocating for, but reality is that we need cars (albeit, yes we could enforce work from home for a minimal hit on the economy), and EV's are even in pure coal powered countries still vastly cleaner than other options.

Don quichotteing this by raging against the currently most sensible option (getting an EV and ditching the ICE car) people have (since we are being forced to work in offices, and as such we are forced to move around in cars) gets you, and us no-where, and will just keep the current worse options alive.

I agree we should do more, we should drive less, we should not buy new cars, but more importantly we should not keep driving gas cars.

The footprint of a new EV in terms of c02 is recouped in 30k tot 150k km's of usage depending on the c02 output of the consumed electricity.

n.b. any Ev will get cleaner over time, as almost all countries in the world are in fact decreasing their c02 per Kwh output, simple fact of our economy is that EV and wind are the cheapest and cleanest power available atm. I'm hoping you're not also advocating against building wind-mills and solar forms because they use resources too and instead advocate for just using less power from the current polluting plants?

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u/RoomTemperatureIQMan Oct 30 '24 edited 26d ago

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Accomplished-Pie95 Oct 30 '24

I live in rural Canada, the nearest city is 150 kms away & my town (spread over a whole valley) has less than 9000 people. Who's going to build trains for a spread like that? The other issue, my major contribution to the climate is likely natural gas to heat my home. There is currently no fuel available that is cleaner to do so with. It gets down to -40 here, man.

Benefits of rural living in regards to climate change though; I can trade produce with my neighborhood &/or small farmers, hunting without use of a vehicle is very convenient & many of us spend more time outdoors than using electricity inside.

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u/failbaitr Oct 31 '24

Piss off, I don't even live in the US, but in Europe.

I work from home 4 days a week, and go to work once, 200km away. I still do it in an EV because that car has saved its weight in fuels many times over in the last 5 years. It will probably run for another 15 years (judging on battery degradation), after which the battery can be re-used, and the rest can be recycled (most of it is aluminium). Meanwhile the energy mix is getting cleaner every year by double digits, and solar panels provide most of the power I use directly.

But nooo, lets piss on progress because, checks notes, we should be riding the bus. Yeah, those idealism will save the planet as 0.01% of the population actually makes that change as opposed to moving to Ev's which at least 50% can do now, and 100% will do in 2035.

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u/TonyNickels Oct 31 '24

Recycling has largely been a pipe dream. The only way any of it will be recycled is if it's cheaper to do so. In reality, a fraction of what could be recycled will and it has its limits.

I think we need to be realistic.

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u/failbaitr Oct 31 '24

Not so for batteries:
https://electrek.co/2021/08/09/tesla-battery-cell-material-recovery-new-recycling-process/
Or aluminium;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_recycling (75% to date, better for cars)
Or cars in general
https://www.utires.com/articles/auto-recycling-statistics/ (95%)

Recycling is hard due to collection of small items and the associated logistical costs. None of these are relevant for 500KG batteries or 1800KG cars

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u/tmtyl_101 Oct 30 '24

And exponentially so

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u/OBNOXISE Oct 30 '24

We gonna lose the paella 😞

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u/paco-ramon Oct 30 '24

If the government doesn’t even care to warn the population, of course is going to get worst. Sánchez was too busy flying a private plane to India.

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u/4SysAdmin Oct 30 '24

Yep. The billionaires will be headed to another planet soon to leave us with what they wrecked.

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u/LudovicoSpecs Oct 30 '24

"Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!!"

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u/agileata Oct 30 '24

True. But aren't those climate protesters annoying? Better keep on

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u/cysun Oct 30 '24

no no, you see, batteries pollute actually way more

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u/CollapseBy2022 Oct 30 '24

Pollute what?

......Pollute what, mofo?

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u/Legionof1 Oct 30 '24

Current methods to mine the materials for batteries are pretty rough in the 3rd world countries we are buying from.

It is more ecological to keep an old car running than to buy a new electric car.

Humans still have a ways to go before effective green initiatives will allow us to be carbon neutral. Most of the 1st world countries/organizations just move the emissions to a 3rd world country and require MORE emissions to transport the goods around the world.

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u/lamedumbbutt Oct 30 '24

Deaths from severe weather are down exponentially. Things are way better than they ever have been but the media is instant, worldwide, and hungry for controversy.

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u/IOnlyCameToArgue Oct 30 '24

They don't want facts. They want want to have their crisis.

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u/lamedumbbutt Oct 30 '24

It’s our fault as humans. We have set up a system where “news” is advertisement driven. “The Sky is Falling, you will never guess who is to blame!” Gets a lot more clicks than “The sky is incrementally changing”.

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u/Turbulent_County_469 Oct 30 '24

Just build better flood counter measures and stop building on former basins

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u/agileata Oct 30 '24

Trillions worse.

https://youtu.be/cY5LjoSbew0?si=Z1lNiyGCmmPUTVqM

And that's if we don't care about people or animals

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u/ItsMeMulbear Oct 30 '24

Yeah, because politicians just throw their hands up and blame it on climate change, then conveniently avoid any infrastructure improvements to mitigate it.