Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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rustyfish@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They also taste great with rosemary and potatoes. Just saying.

slowd0wn@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

The long pork equivalent of wagyu

LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

In other news water is wet!

WaxedWookie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

When do we recognise that they're an existential threat and respond accordingly?

When political and media influences aren't bought and sold, eroding our democracy to the point that only a thin veneer remains, and our cognitive biases dismiss the fact that we're the frog that's boiling.

I'm seeing increased reason for hope, but things are getting worse faster than people are starting to care. It's hard for me not to have a doomer response to the situation.