• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    No one cares … most people don’t care … governments don’t really care … companies absolutely don’t care

    Mostly because people aren’t dying yet … and even once they do start dying, most people won’t care that much if its just a few people who die once in a while in a few places here and there. The care that the world will have will also be based on the quality of the people who are dying … if they are older white Europeans, especially northern Europeans, then that is a cause for concern … if they are white Americans or Canadians, then that is a concern too … but if they are ethnic in any way, brown skinned or speak some other language other than English, then it doesn’t matter that much … and if they are African or black, then people will just gloss over that and think it’s just a normal rate of people dying in Africa.

    No … the world won’t care until we start seeing hundreds or even thousands of people dying everywhere … we won’t care until we start seeing mass migrations of all kinds of people (white, brown, black, Asian, whatever) moving from location to location by the millions to avoid starvation, war and death … we won’t care until we start seeing pictures of mounds of bodies rotting in the open air because they had to be abandoned and survivors were too overwhelmed to do anything about it all.

    Nah … we won’t care until our world and civilization itself is collapsing around us. And the generation to survive in the aftermath will wonder why the fuck we didn’t do something sooner to avoid all this mess in the first place.

    • Airfried@piefed.social
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      Most people in Europe don’t have AC and even those who do have to deal with extreme energy prices. They’re about to care a whole lot more very soon. heat waves will become more frequent and far worse. People will rush to the streets and demand change. Governments will be toppled over this in the near future. Of course we’re pretty late and we’re headed towards much worse conditions already. People won’t experience a better climate during our lifetime no matter what we do now. But more heat waves will give them a taste of what’s coming for us regardless and perhaps remind them how much worse things are going to get if we don’t act quickly.