Once you get that, you infiltrate a bunch of social trust networks, and get the people who are trusted by a lot of people to lie. Some will do it for approval, some for money. Then you push a bunch of petromasculinity to get people to think that it’s a core part of their identity, so they’ll fight tooth and nail to keep on burning stuff.
But people aren’t uniformly distributed across the land; they’re disproportionately concentrated in cities. So the average person holds very different views form the average location.
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Because Dubai’s royal family got wealthy by exporting fossil fuels, which they continue to do.
They’re desperate to find a way to say “you can keep on burning fossil fuels if you go buy up another country” instead of “we all need to stop burning this stuff”
After Tyndall Air Force Base was leveled by 2018′s Hurricane Michael, those overseeing its reconstruction hope it becomes the ‘test bed’ for bases to defend against the perils posed by a warming atmosphere.
Instead it is an argument to get to work building that kind of social trust in as many places as possible, because we’re going to need it. We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But...
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Instead it is an argument to get to work building that kind of social trust in as many places as possible, because we’re going to need it. We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But...
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