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The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away

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[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I never understood the obsession with big oil. Oil and gas firms have strong lobby power but it's actually the economics of cheap fossil fuels and nations' desires to out-compete each other in growth and industry that are driving the demand.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 9 points 2 days ago

And the world reacts exactly like Americans when there is a school shooting.

Thoughts, prayers, some aid, pearl clutching & zero actions.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

And we're killing ourselves by not changing what we each can.

We need to act globally AND personally.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 6 points 2 days ago

The UN seems to be running out of vocabulary to describe how serious the danger is.

"they should've sent a poet"

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

No it won't, you misunderstand COP meetings.

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