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Climate Change. Our Failure.

Lake Mead is drying up. The hottest temperatures ever recorded in London. Sparking unprecedented wildfires across Europe. The sea level consistently continues to not only rise but rise even faster as time goes on. The Western Antarctic Ice Sheet may totally collapse at the end of this century. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher now then they have been in more then 2 million years.

We've wasted decades of precious time doing almost nothing. Conservatives denied the scientific data for decades and still continue to do so. Their excuses growing more absurd as the effects of climate change become more extreme with the passage of time. Many governments of the world have had little success pushing impactful global warming legislation. Over the last century our collective negligence has created an impending climate change apocalypse for our children to live in and we are all responsible.
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It's so selfish and short-sighted that certain politicians have decided to pretend this isn't happening to win votes and prop up their friends and benefactors in non-sustainable industries.
I mean, imagine hiring a climate change denier to oversee the Environmental Protection Agency...Yeah, that's the kind of bullshit we're dealing with.
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@Pikachu What's worse is, it's not a vote winner anymore. It's to prop up friends and benefactors.
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True. More and more the people are becoming green-minded and that just leaves the people getting rich off of practices that will leave their grandchildren on a dying world.
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@Pikachu I honestly think a tipping point has been reached. Crap though this legislation is, America has moved on climate change. And still, people follow where America leads. Also, if Americans can see this, then they can elect more Democratic Senators and House Reps to do even more.
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I just hope the tipping point has not been passed by already.
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@Pikachu Well, the tipping point to avoid climate-related disasters has passed for sure. But I meant the tipping point for action. Bloomberg has already shown that diesel and petrol use in cars peaked in 2017. America has also reached a 5% uptake of EVs along with a lot of other countries. This is good news.
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Yeah hopefully with enough political will we can mitigate the consequences of our past policies.
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@Pikachu It can be done. Although not in our lifetime almost certainly. But I hope when I'm like 80 or so, we will be well on our way to restoring our environment.
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Fingers crossed!