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funwithtentacles t1_j9d5y2p wrote

Reply to comment by Cliff_Sedge in World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says by YoanB

Shit goes back way earlier than that... We've practically known about this since the 1970s, only we're really good at ignoring anything in the way of inconvenient facts.

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WhiteWashTXP t1_j9dlnhy wrote

It's a bit more nuanced than that, involved Exxon and a lot of corruption, not just the average person being dumb.

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paulfunyan t1_j9eu5ja wrote

Yeah, I'm not sure we really "ignored the facts". More like there was a lot of money dedicated to lobbying and hiding the facts.

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nonrandomusername17 t1_j9ewshf wrote

Soylent Green is about a world suffering from global warming, food shortages, inequality, and overpopulation.

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funwithtentacles t1_j9ex0fz wrote

Yeah, but then there is the whole eating people thing... It's just not energy efficient...

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j9eki87 wrote

Anything obstructing profit maximization and economical growth. We have successfully subordinated everything to these doctrines.

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StupidPockets t1_j9hrtdg wrote

In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth's atmosphere to global warming.

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