• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wealth inequality, out-of-control prices, climate chaos, political extremism, and nothing is being done to fix any of it. There’s no one at the wheel and we’re headed for a cliff.

    I imagine what will happen that will “snap” the world into some sort of action is a huge environmental disaster that damages a shit-ton of property, an environmental 9/11 moment. A major city will get permanently flooded and have to get abandoned, to which people will be like, “How could this have happened?” removed, scientists have been warning us for decades, we’ve been sleepwalking into this for ages. At that point, maybe we’ll get serious about it, but by that point it may already be too late.