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Policy makers who rely on the ignorant 40%’s vote to stay in a job aren’t going to risk their salary and pension.


General public will understand the problem when first country ceases to exist (there are multiple candidates that will completely become uninhabitable in a few decades).


Some of those countries are known as “shithole countries” by CC deniers. I doubt many will care.


They will care when there countries start getting migrants CC migrants?

Mind you they're probably the types to start a civil war when private fossil fuel use, gasoline/petrol/diesel, becomes illegal.


> They will care when there countries start getting migrants CC migrants?

We had an immigration wave in Germany in the mid-2010's and all it did was help a right-leaning party without much care for climate change gain power.


I can't stress enough how enormously sad and true this is. The system is broken.


The candidates all mostly have the same program. Having the choice is an illusion.

Trump is not doing what's right for his supporter, he is doing what companies who paid him ask.

Biden is not doing what's right for his supporter, he is doing what companies who paid him ask.

That's not conspiracy theory, that's the model on which our society is built on




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