Is it time to get out the pitch forks yet? Or does that not happen until crops are failing and we have no water..
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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Don't worry. The Philanthropist Elon Musk has graciously denoted one of his Star ships for the transportation of those without means. Random lottery eligible only to those with "compliant" or above social credit scores.
That's mighty kind of him
But, like, what will the shareholders portfolios look like?
Do you know how expensive tickets on the Musk Ship are? Invest appropriately people.
Do you seriously believe that massive crop failures, wars, deaths from heat waves, flooding, super storms and so forth are good for the economy and therefore shareholders?
Be sure to thank a conservative. Conservatives world-wide are supporting and defending the globe's biggest pollutors. Without conservatives, corporations would be properly regulated by now.
The Russian war of Genocide rejiggered the entire planets energy sourcing, and though we're decades past where renewable energies could, and should have already taken over for Fossil fuels everywhere, the old systems of profit couldn't rejigger themselves quick enough to benefit from the change, and so it's back to fossil fuels, planet be damned
Despite nice sounding goals, we've never been serious about actually stopping climate change.