Son, if trump wins, it’s going to be so much worse than critically excessive carbon emissions. Sure, yes, that’s bad but if that’s your take-away from the concept, you’re really not grokking the horror.
Yeah, preserving earth is pretty important for not dying and all, but non of that is going to happen if this guy builds a dictatorship that favors fossil fuel oligarchs.
People are motivated by a variety of issues. I’m happy to make sure that people who care about this one know how the two candidates’ likely policies differ.
It’s actually probably the most important reason. It’s arguably the biggest existential threat we’ve ever faced. It seems we might not be stupid enough to nuke ourselves into oblivion, but our willingness to slowly march to the destruction of our way of life and the suffering of billions of people might be what actually does us in.
I always tell my conservative friends “You think immigration is a problem now? Just sit back and do nothing about climate change and watch it actually get bad.”
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