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The sad truth about our boldest climate target

by dmontero on 1/5/20, 1:55 PM with 13 comments

• by perfunctory on 1/5/20, 4:21 PM

  This is one if the best writings on climate crisis I’ve read recently. To add my two cents

  "I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win."

  -- Richard Stallman

  Fuck hope and optimism. I am gonna go out and fight no matter what. Doing nothing makes me sick.

• by everdev on 1/5/20, 4:05 PM

  > They believe that without that public optimism, the fragile effort to battle climate change will collapse completely.

  I can imagine this being true.

  If a meteor is going to destroy Earth you probably aren't spending your last few days doing the dishes and sweeping the floors. You're only doing that if there's a > 50% chance that we'll be able to divert it.

  And better than "being optimistic" is rapidly developing the technology and passing the law to make it realistic.

• by jerry292 on 1/5/20, 3:49 PM

  Man if Al Gore was elected we may have had a shot in 2000. But I guess Florida voted to grow gills.