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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

Most people don't get it. They're either unaware or believe there's a miracle solution.

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Sara Hourez's avatar

My response to people declaring that David Suzuki was a 'doomer' and thus 'dooming' on SM (substack seems the only thinking space) -

Suzuki didn't say give up rather he said prepare, plan, wake up, stop praying and wishing and hoping and get active in ensuring your and your community's survival. Protests & demonstrations screaming for action are just a waste of valuable time because it is too late to do anything. Mitigation may reduce the worse effects but adaptation needs to be a focus not a side-thought. Same as declaring a certain % of the population care about climate change while they live, spend, travel, eat, pollute and buy exactly as always. Few are actually revising the choices they are making, they aren't even reflecting on the possible changes they could be actively making in their daily life. I look around me and think until their pants are on fire they will do nothing. All the immediate concerns of comfort, shelter, education, costs, transport, status, health, can hardly be cast aside but they will be as the direct economic threats appear, the clashes over natural resource access, the mass migration of desperate populations, food shortages,... but although we can see it coming in the headlights we aren't really feeling it. We see it on the now daily disasters; things are changing that's for sure but really it's all in some dim distant future. Won't really affect me - you think. You need to start to plan, prepare, make adaptations & talk to those around you.

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