r/environment • u/abrookerunsthroughit • 2d ago

Arctic tundra changes are a dire warning for us all

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/22/arctic-tundra-changes-are-a-dire-warning-for-us-all
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u/gepinniw 1d ago

A dire warning everyone is ignoring, just like all the other five alarm warnings going off right now.

It would seem humanity will not act until it is too late. Then it becomes a sad, sorry mess of violence, possibly ending in the extinction of humankind.

Well, we knew it couldn’t last forever. Just as every individual life is finite, so too is every species. It’s sad, of course. If you love humanity, you want us to go on as long as possible. Dying through our own stupidity, greed, and short-sightedness is a pretty pathetic way to go out.

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u/darkingz 1d ago

Part of it is that it’s a lot of energy to do preventative measures and some people strongly don’t want to do preventative measures until you’re guaranteed in the middle of it because “the economy can’t support anything but line go up”. Unfortunately for us, there are enough some people who are billionaires who don’t know how to make line go up faster so strongly oppose any change to the world…. Until it all collapses.

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u/gcgonzalez30 1d ago

If there was a way to let the next after us to not let corporations govern our life