"whenever we’re presented with a choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing, we do the wrong thing. We need to start making the right choices.
And historically speaking, megafauna start going extinct at +4℃.
You know what is classified as a megafauna? Humans. And we are already a minimum of 3× past our planet’s carrying capacity.
The future looks like Idiocracy plus Soylent Green. Best timeline. Who knew that ignoring the worst model outcomes due to normalcy bias might be a mistake.
And this is all down to how capitalism - and profits at any cost - have hijacked democracy and corrupted politics.
Had democracy been able to establish a separation between politics and capitalism in the same general manner as the separation of state and religion, we might have had a chance.
