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woo...
We've really got to start doing some drastic measures or we're fucked
Sorry to tell you this, but if we suddenly woke up tomorrow and made all the possible drastic changes in a single day, it would take well over a decade for the effects to even start setting in.
The chaos we are living today could only have been prevented by starting many years in the past. So is the reality of very long geological cycles and feedback loops.
A decade from tomorrow is better than a decade from a decade from now
lol. Every fascist wannabe around the world would win in a landslide.
As more extreme policies become required, fascists gain power because of the increasing disruption to the way of life that the average person in the region is accustomed to.
“They’re taking away your hamburgers, your cars, etc etc”
Drastic measures can mean prevention, mitigation, or retribution. It's too late for prevention, so right now mitigation is the next best thing.
Mitigation follows the exact same "extremely delayed effects" logic I explained.
Yes but this ain't happening, so we're fucked
Technically speaking we are “turbo fucked”
Maximum overfucked. It will be interesting to witness the fall of civilization.
We already are, bud.
We just need to hold on for another 40 years or so
On the bright siden (/s.this portion only), Trump caused the population to be lowered significantly.
It wasn't very effective, so we're still fucked.
Juuuust a bit more, and a bit more, and more just to be sure those guys aren't trying to scam us into changing the world to a better place