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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (29 children)

Oh please! I'd love to see Big Oil shrivel and die just like our societies and very planet have under their influence.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

I mean they absolutely will when civilization collapses due to climate collapse and accompanying weather events, famine, droughts, and plagues.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/the-climate-is-changing-so-fast-that-we-havent-seen-how-bad-extreme-weather-could-get/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

I take solace in knowing that they can build all the luxury bunkers they want, but they will one day come to realize they are their tombs, protecting them from the world and species they damned, including for any of their muh legacy nepo babies huddled underground with them, for a couple million years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'd appreciate if people just like you would stop taking any solace and tolerating this bs. The ONLY reason this shit continues to happen is because too many people do nothing. Then when asked they get defensive and say, "What am I supposed to do?!" followed by "What are you doing?!" Like guys, you're smart enough to recognize the perils of these industries, read journals and papers, and internalize the evidence, and you can't fucking do a quick Google search on activism and even lightly contemplate entering yourself into local politics?

Come now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You say "do something" and follow or with "protest"?

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