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Originally Posted by edslunch
What has been happening in the past ten years as far as the public is concerned is a series of increasingly unusual and destructive weather events that are not conclusively tied to climate change and are not shockingly, terrifyingly impactful to most individuals. They should be tied and should be terrifying already if someone is paying attention but I’m talking a complete collapse of a society or ecosystem or a massive death wave (sadly needs to be in a developed country), a season that doesn’t come, permanent water rationing... something biblical in scale. Something 70% people can’t deny or ignore.
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That is an exaggeration on your part. We are already seeing constituency-level majority support for climate mitigation based on the increasingly apparent consequences.
We had a heat wave here in BC that killed 800 people - how is that not a disaster by our current standards?