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How does this comment help? Despite the rising water temperature, the world collectively is doing more for the climate than ever. Ranging from more ethical fishing practices to the reduction of fossil fuel usage, to more and more corporations going carbon neutral.

This kind of defeatist attitude doesn't contribute to a better future.

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You say that as if you have evidence. You see pictures but for every “oh look at how we care about nature” photo Shell puts out, it drills 3 holes in the ocean leaking oil in perpetuity. We have never been more dependent on oil and gas than we are today.

There is no “but we are making progress” to a species that is extinct.

Who says the comment is defeatist or doesn't help? Acknowledging a source of a problem can be a helpful step towards finding a solution.

Doing more for the climate than ever? Do you mean more annual carbon emissions than ever? I guess it is more for the climate than before, just not in the direction I would like.

https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2022

Both sides need attention.

We're still continuing to fuck things up and that should be called out.

Likewise we should celebrate and support the progress we've made, and not surrender to defeatism.

It’s not a defeatist attitude to clearly point out that it’s humans when we still have a side able voting bloc who insists its _definitely not humans_.

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