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Just because we can't do everything doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. Or worse, like you're doing here, criticize a good thing because it doesn't solve everything.
That kind of doomerism you feel is exactly by design, because the less you feel you can do, the longer the big polluters can keep hoarding wealth.
My guy, humans are a plague on the planet. Unless we all go back to tribal communes living in tune with nature, there's no justification for our existence. Hopefully the next species to develop intelligence learns from our mistake.
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Wonder what the new goal will be when we blow past 1.5° lol.
Doesn't matter, we gotta fight the greedy fucks that got us here for every 0.1°C.
Big difference between 2.0°C and 3.0°C.
We dont seem to be fighting very hard.