• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    You’re kidding yourself, things may have seemed better 20 years ago but the economy was being bolstered by sub prime mortgage nonsense, it collapsed 2 years later and we’ve not had good times since.

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      7 days ago

      How about climate change? 20 years ago there was hope. You want to introduce a kid into a world that is ending? Tell them hey, we made this world for you. You’ll fight in the water wars of 2040?

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        6 days ago

        How about climate change? 20 years ago there was hope

        Twenty years ago, we invaded a country to steal it’s oil while dismantling the nascent EV/Solar industry to protect fossil fuels

        We are here today precisely because things were worse twenty years ago

        You’ll fight in the water wars of 2040?

        Better fighting to preserve water tomorrow than bloody your hands fighting for oil yesterday

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        7 days ago

        You’re saying things were better 20 years ago because there was false hope? By that logic 2020 must’ve been the best year ever because CO2 emissions actually dropped.