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This it totally weird. I was born in the 80s, and as a kid I learned about CO2 and climate change in school. In elementary school in the US. I even had a "ninja turtles save the environment" book. Nobody can claim we didn't know, or the oil industry kept the information secret.

One of the reasons I believe our current political system is bankrupt. It can't do the right thing even when it is crystal clear.

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> Nobody can claim we didn't know, or the oil industry kept the information secret.

Ya know, people said the same thing about tobacco. Their FUD tactics were effective though. They sewed enough doubt to squeeze a few extra decades of profit out of people, at the expense of millions of lives.

This is that but worse. And it's so, so sad that people here are missing that point and carrying water for the fossil fuel mass murderers.

Every political system around the world and across history has failed to address environmental problems. It’s probably one of the hardest problems ever.

Yup. Here's a casual joke on global warming from Hot Shots! (1991), that's more than 30 years ago now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JkBKGttM_U

As another 80’s kid we shouldn’t forget about Captain Planet!

It is the same with taxes: Not raising taxes for companies because being afraid that companies move elsewhere.

As an European my only hope is that the EU does something that's mandatory for companies to do in a way that it has worldwide effect (like GDPR or repairability rules for instance).

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