• NewPerspective@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    While the environment is very important, I think this is the least important reason Trump should not be president.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, we can just get a different planet. I’m sure Venus will be ready by the time I’m about to retire.

    • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      It’s actually probably the most important reason. It’s arguably the biggest existential threat we’ve ever faced. It seems we might not be stupid enough to nuke ourselves into oblivion, but our willingness to slowly march to the destruction of our way of life and the suffering of billions of people might be what actually does us in.

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          8 months ago

          I always tell my conservative friends “You think immigration is a problem now? Just sit back and do nothing about climate change and watch it actually get bad.”

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, preserving earth is pretty important for not dying and all, but non of that is going to happen if this guy builds a dictatorship that favors fossil fuel oligarchs.

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      8 months ago

      People are motivated by a variety of issues. I’m happy to make sure that people who care about this one know how the two candidates’ likely policies differ.

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    8 months ago

    That’s the headline du jour?

    Son, if trump wins, it’s going to be so much worse than critically excessive carbon emissions. Sure, yes, that’s bad but if that’s your take-away from the concept, you’re really not grokking the horror.

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      8 months ago

      It’s one of many reasons to not vote for him. But I know and talk climate in a way that I can’t always do in detail on other issues.