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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

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399 points gmays | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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benbristow[dead post] ◴[17 Nov 24 18:58 UTC] No.42166108[source]▶
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nso ◴[17 Nov 24 19:01 UTC] No.42166139[source]▶
First post and it turned into a US politics discussion. Great.

What do you think will fix it?

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1. Windchaser ◴[17 Nov 24 19:02 UTC] No.42166150[source]▶
What odds do you want to give that this person doesn't really see it as a problem anyway?
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2. benbristow ◴[17 Nov 24 19:05 UTC] No.42166177[source]▶
We keep getting told the average Joe is to blame for eating meat and taking flights whilst large corporations/industry laugh at us. Make it make sense.
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3. aniviacat ◴[17 Nov 24 21:32 UTC] No.42167500[source]▶
Temu doesn't ship items across the world for fun. They do it because the average Joe pays them to do it.

The meat industry doesn't hold excessive amounts of cattle for fun. They do it because the average Joe pays them to do it.

These industries don't just happen to exist. They exist because the average Joe wants them to exist.

If the average Joe stopped buying meat, stopped shopping on Temu and stopped buying palm oil, these industries would cease to exist within days.

But the average Joes wants them to exist. The average Joe decides, every single day, over and over again, that he wants these industires to destroy the climate.

Oh but it's just so convenient and cheap to shop on Temu.