I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
www.theguardian.com
As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, the lesson is urgent
  • grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    It’s insane that humans still think about how to maximise profit while our environment is destroyed exactly because of that profit.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Anybody who denies climate change will just say its “the cycle” of the planet.

    The only way to make huge climate changes is to make it massively profitable.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Fossil Fuel Stakeholders:

    1965: “That didn’t happen.”

    1985: “And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.”

    1995: “And if it was, that’s not a big deal.”

    2005: “And if it is, that’s not my fault.”

    2015: “And if it was, I didn’t mean it.”

    2025: “And if I did, you deserved it.”