Climate Summit

This comic is from 2009, over 14 years ago. Good thing we took action and have made great strides towards combating climate change during that time. Could you imagine how screwed we'd be if our world leaders had sat on their asses and did fuck all instead? /S

Rich people won't make as much money.

Curious that this list is missing short-term shareholder value 🤔

Mankind has been cheating for decades now, building a super consuming inefficient society without the means to actually do so sustainably.

We failed the Candy challenge, we chose to eat our candy now instead of receiving more candy in the future. We wanted to have new toys constantly, make stuff cheap and throw-away, because we want new stuff anyways. We wanted to eat large amounts of meat every day. We wanted to travel across the world. We wanted to have our own large homes with large gardens and heat/cool them to be perfect for living in all the time. We wanted to have our own personal tanks to drive around in perfect comfort, to use as we wish, to go as we wish. But we wanted it, so we made it so. We used the ultimate cheat code called fossil fuels.

Using fossil fuel is like going to a bar and putting everything on the tab. You can drink and eat all you want, but at one point in the future you are going to have to pay up. Previous generations didn't really care, they would just pass along the tab to the next generation, they will figure it out. And with technological progress as it was, it would have seemed likely a solution would be found. Especially in the atomic era the solution to a lot of problems was within our grasp. Unfortunately because a lot of reasons that never panned out.

No solution is within sight and the bill is coming due. But in order to at least pay some of that bill, it would mean we are going to have to give up a lot of riches we've come accustomed to. With a lot of people it isn't they don't want a better future for the Earth and the next generations, it's that they don't want to be the one who gives up those riches. They don't want to give up their car, not even for a day. They don't want to stop eating meat, even if it's only half of the time.

The saddest thing about this is that I've been hearing this joke since at least the 1990s.

her head is on backwards. i hope she's okay

I kind of get these kind of comics, but isn't the reality that all of humanity is still in a competition with eachother, and doing all the wrong things gives you more power than doing all the right things, so that's what continues happening.

In these climate debates the reality is that it's a global chicken on the road, we all go toward self annihilation at a steady pace, and the first who flinches and tries to take action will get taken advantage of and ruined. So it's slooooooow talks about doing tiny things and kind of maybe a bit cooperating while noone really wants to, because any advantage they can get over another country will be taken advantage of...

Maybe i'm a bit too pessimistic, but it's my assumption that things work like that, and then all this bullshit suddenly makes sense >_<...

What's funny is, most people on the ground that I have talked to about this issue agree that the world would be objectively better. They just don't want to make the effort if it would benefit somebody if they don't agree with.

Yeah it would suck if we lived in a world where psychopaths like Vlad Putin and Mr. Bonesaw no longer had power over the world's economy. We'd have to pay the equivalent to the monetary cost of one war in the Middle East to achieve this but without the human cost that a war involves.

Maybe Biden should declare a war on global warming? Or does not actually work because a war on global warming would have an achievable goal?

Yeah, what have those damn kids done for us today?

Then the billionaires would still be billionaires, people would still be starving, and we'd continue to find unique was to kill each other.

It's not a better world if it's achieved through dishonesty and manipulation.

Its a trade off at best. You would need to make everyone poorer and accumulate more power in the government to make it happen. And the biggest issue is if its even doable.

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