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Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’ (www.theguardian.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9336139

He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO

“The future is really daunting for people in the Maldives … the climate emergency is an existential threat that overshadows all the other issues.”

over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.

“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”

“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.

I get his bemusement, just here in Australia, 11,000 die from air pollution from cars annually, another 20,00 are hospitalised annually. The numbers are beyond horrendous and yet, on a scale of 1 to 5 fucks given, it's 0

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago

It’s 2 things IMO:

  • Boiling frog. A lot of people can’t see beyond a few years ahead, so if it’s not something that drastically changes immediately, they won’t really care. Until it’s too late of course.

  • Too big, too global. A lot of people can’t see beyond their own circle/bubble. So someone from Florida might not care that the Maldives is sinking and disappearing, but will maybe be alarmed when Florida starts.

[-] mranachi@aussie.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago

There is a third. We are unable to grasp things we've not experienced in our lifetimes are possible. So, global famines can't happen in modern society, wealthy democratic nations don't collapse and we can't cause the extinction of our species.

Got some hard lessons coming our way

[-] arin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

We think inflation is bad, oh that's the least of the worries in a few decades... Water wars, we'll probably migrate to the new jungle in Antarctica

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