• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Honestly we are way past the point of any scientific reasoning. The public has voted that they are uninterested, and the US government and large corporations are about to be uninterested too.

    To be blunt… No one ever really cared, but the world kinda squeaked by putting scientists in front of statesmen and public broadcasts. Everyone kinda nodded along, and not just for global warming.

    That period is over.

    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      No one ever really cared

      That’s just not true. The problem is that the people who care were never the kind of people who’d come into power in our society.

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      7 days ago

      Dayum. Well said. Though some people cared. We, the few, and Al Gore, for example. The great majority, no. It does appear that period is over, I agree. Perhaps this is how it has been for the last 4-5 decades. Maybe this hope’s death will be the last in our history.

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      7 days ago

      There could be more options to choose from if we enacted electoral reform and gave voters the freedom to vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.