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    14 days ago

    It’s because the average person cannot conceptualize an existential threat. Hell, even I can’t really conceive of how badly climate change is gonna fuck up my life, but I listen to the people smarter than me telling me it will.

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      Tiktok reduced the avagerage attention span to 30 seconds…

      Politicians plan for 4-5 years until there is the next election…

      Humanity is bad at planning further in the future…

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      The more we head down the drain the more I look to the lives that people in developing nations lead and think “huh, I guess we’re going for equality by making everything worse instead of better. Awesome.”

      It’s not gunna be great.