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The former vice president will speak today on the topic, in advance of Climate Week and as President Trump lifts limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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[-] MBech@feddit.dk 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Climate change is what makes the movie: "Project Hail Mary", unbelievable. There is absolutely fucking no way the world would come together and pool their ressources into a solution, for a problem that isn't directly felt within a year or 2. The leaders of the world have shown that hundreds of millions of people dying, and possibly billions of people becoming refugees due to climate change over the next 100-200 years doesn't fucking matter. At best we can hold a big meeting once per year, where every world leader attends by private plane, to eat expensive food flown in from the other side of the world, to promise to do better than the previous year, while doing absolutely fuck all for the next 364 days.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The book addressed that area of thought much more in detail, but for starters the problem was more directly observable and promised near total extinction within a single lifetime.

Secondly, humanity didn't come together in a kumbaya moment, many had to be forced to comply. The woman in charge of Hail Mary project was a monster who nuked antarctica and was sent to prison when it was all over.

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Do we know she was sent to prison? I know she said she would be.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I could be imagining, but in the movie they actually left a hint implying she did which I thought was neat.

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