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9 months ago@silence7 Climate scientists predicted tipping point causing climate problems to build on themselves. They missed a couple:
As climate has more clear impacts on daily life people are overwhelmed with daily problems and lose sight of bigger issues
As climate causes mass migrations folks get anxious re “invasion” and support cruelest politicians to protect them.
As oil billionaires get more obscenely rich, they have more power to buy media and close down science and public knowledge.
Discuss…
@theacharnian
Living in the world Milton Friedman made…
He proposed that capitalism must be unfettered - forgetting that the whole purpose of democracy is to restrain the powerful on behalf of the public good