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The inability to even imagine the possibility of primitive to space fairing technological advancement that avoids relying on fossil fuels is its own form of Capitalist Realism.
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Also I don't know if this was brought up in the list of concurrently happening crises that we're experiencing discussion from several pages back, but I would add the epistemological crisis into that, especially since it synergizes so well with the other crises and impedes collective solutions.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Can't wait till we find some peaceful species that has no military at all and then hear the justifications for why we have to annihilate them we all knew this conflict was unavoidable when the NYT revealed the aliens were posting memes on facebook
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Call me crazy but I got from trusted sources some good news and bad news: Good news: You puny humans didn't kill Gaia, she's currently in hospice in a planet impossibly out of reach to the demon cracker christcult, no matter their material tech. Bad news: In a taste of your own hairless monkey medicine, y'all got an Interim Spirit ruling the planet! Aaand she's beyond pissed at Christendom and it's savages! She's gonna force y'all to take up mutual aid and community defense against literal creatures of the night you thought "supernatural". Oh and along with the usual climate disasters.  I highly recommend not attempt even ironic hexes on Gaia, it'll go far worse than the babby witch hexes of on the moon, this is no longer a game. 
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Oct 11, 2020 20:11
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Kurzgesagt did a climate change video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbR-5mHI6bo It's pretty tepid. Thought I'd post it anyway though
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video 
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I think I might actually genuinely hate scifi that forecloses rather than expands possibility, especially in the service of military wank
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Hodgepodge posted:I think I might actually genuinely hate scifi that forecloses rather than expands possibility, especially in the service of military wank
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video Top comment didn't disappoint: quote:It has been a pleasure everyone. I'll see you at the resource wars.
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Oct 11, 2020 20:47
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I like how the dad's clothes change with the fashions of the time, including the helmet.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video I enjoy the part where they gloss over that capitalists have built a system where they market poo poo items to people so that the demands for their poo poo items go up and so do the capitalists profits while saying that it is the populations fault for wanting items.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Can't wait till we find some peaceful species that has no military at all and then hear the justifications for why we have to annihilate them Do you mean like dolphins, orangutans, or any of the other thousands of species we're currently doing it to? The justification is "jobs!".
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just remember, our first decent attempt at reaching out to the cosmos to say "hello!" to other intelligent species' was to send unsolicited nudes bolted to the side of a lovely probe
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates" I'm so sick of this loving guy branding every crisis with his name.
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OhFunny posted:Top comment didn't disappoint: My personal favorite: "People have predicted humanity’s fait over and over and never once has anybody been correct, if others are predicting that climate change will be our end they too have no idea when that will be; just more failed predictions" Well, wrap it up, cassandrailures. Humanity has not collapsed ipso factio it will never collapse.
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Third World Reagan posted:I enjoy the part where they gloss over that capitalists have built a system where they market poo poo items to people so that the demands for their poo poo items go up and so do the capitalists profits while saying that it is the populations fault for wanting items. gently caress you I was born wanting an xbox, that's just part of human nature. like, gently caress, put a baby next to an xbox, they will reach out to touch it. that's not "curiosity," that's the innate human draw of the xbox, and it's power and majesty must be respected and adored. sacrifices of cash labour must be paid upon the shrine of xbox, for it is unto us that xbox gives it's content
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PhilippAchtel posted:My personal favorite: IIRC it was after the air raid on Guernica that people realized a serious, non-religious way that the world could end. Thousands of bombers blanketing every major city in nerve gas, and then ten years later, that fear became bombers dropping A-bombs.
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Chamale posted:IIRC it was after the air raid on Guernica that people realized a serious, non-religious way that the world could end. Thousands of bombers blanketing every major city in nerve gas, and then ten years later, that fear became bombers dropping A-bombs. hey on an entirely unrelated note, did those nuclear control planes that got deployed after trump got hospitalized ever land
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PhilippAchtel posted:"This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates" its also all a grift, Breakthrough Energy just funds the same firms that their investors already owns. so Bill Gates and friends can pretend to be saving the world while promoting their own companies.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video i literally lolled when he whipped out that extreme poverty reduction line. god drat that is funny.
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Every time someone tries to suggest that we respond to climate change any other way than further expanding fascist capitalism until WW3 breaks out and we all die I think of how we're responding to a global pandemic which is in some ways like climate change as far as how we need to respond to it only on a much smaller scale and I just LOL and prepare for death.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Kurzgesagt did a climate change video Yeah this is based on free market capitalism. So I guess it's a good argument for why capitalism needs to stop.
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That K idiot's other videos suck poo poo too
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Homeless Friend posted:make him hold the earth pls do the needful
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So on the topic of ongoing biocollapse, a bunch of countries set goals in 2010 to preserve nature. How's that going? It isn't.quote:Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth's vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday. 40% of plants are going hasta la bye bye. I'd say they'll be missed but honestly nobody who matters has ever heard of them so they can't be too important. quote:New estimates suggest two-fifths of the world's plants are at risk of extinction. Also you know how the planet has whales? Don't worry, we're fixing that. quote:They say more than half of all species are of conservation concern, with two on the "knife-edge" of extinction.
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PhilippAchtel posted:My personal favorite: Literally the inductive fallacy at play.
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Homeless Friend posted:make him hold the earth CloFan posted:pls do the needful go in peace 
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Complications posted:Also you know how the planet has whales? Don't worry, we're fixing that. it's pretty cool that not too far in my lifetime that whales will be completely extinct and we'll prob be seeing "last whale dies" headline in maybe 10 years. rip big glorious sea blobs
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Complications posted:So on the topic of ongoing biocollapse, a bunch of countries set goals in 2010 to preserve nature. How's that going? It isn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
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Chris James 2 posted:https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-strange-methane-leak-from-antarctica-s-sea-floor-and-it-s-not-good-news obviously the solution is to extract and burn it before it has the chance to naturally escape
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Chris James 2 posted:https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-strange-methane-leak-from-antarctica-s-sea-floor-and-it-s-not-good-news ah i thought this was an update but it seems to be the same july story that prompted me to google "clathrate gun"
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