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"Witness to Disaster | National Geographic" - https://youtu.be/clTeqIpGBeU
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People also stupidly watch soccer games such as World Cup, go on meaningless vacations, eat out when they can cook at home, argue nonsense on online forums such as HN. Sure those activities aren't "encouraging more consumerism and more CO2 output"?
That's remember me of https://www.france24.com/en/20190824-macron-france-brazil-bo...
But then, it's real that Bolsonaro was criminally negligent on fire-avoidance. What we will discover next year is how much of it could be avoided at all.
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"Giving money to corpos" is basically living in society where the work is shared so that somebody e.g. good at repairing a water leak can concentrate on that and do the job for others, etc. Or you mean "big corpos"? Why does the size matter? Or do you mean that those are unethical corporations? So let's focus on preventing them from doing unethical things them. In any case, we are living in society, so it is better t…
Communities helping each other and huge sums of capital operating autonomously in the benefit of an extremely few number of majority shareholders (yes the same few thousand people own most of the major equity is the top corporations) are hardly comparable. co-ops and small businesses trying to navigate the legalese of modernity and "make it" though all are responsible in proportion to the degree that they maximize mo…
And of course fighting against the idiotic far-right propaganda, largely responsible for the climate inaction.
Which by the way in the US has recently passed the stage of "inaction" to enter the realm of actively destroying the planet.
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And this is not an earthquake, it happens every years at the same time.
It is too easy to blame climate change.
So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?
So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?
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Also I can understand fires in gigantic forests in Canada or mountainous area are almost impossible to prevent but just looking at the Gironde/Bordeaux area on Google Maps it just looks like an absolute failure by the state. And this is not an earthquake, it happens every years at the same time. It is too easy to blame climate change.
But don't worry, it's not just about fires. The same can be said about pretty much everything they've done.
The situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 miles from the edge of the city.
Good luck, and stay safe.