Imagine if we took climate change seriously in the fucking 60s.

[danirabbit@mastodon.online]

Imagine if we took climate change seriously in the fucking 60s. How much death and suffering could have been avoided

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@danirabbit

I had been just hoping for seriously in the 1980s. That alone would've been a massive improvement.

[caroline@chaosfem.tw]

@danirabbit there is no shortage of people I wish had never come to power, but near the very top of that list would have to be Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

[what@chaosfem.tw]

@danirabbit Or shit, if we had taken the oil crisis of the 70s to heart and moved off fossil fuels.

[papageier@digitalcourage.social]

@danirabbit Yeah, but then, all that wonderful money had gone to waste, i.e., to the people. We wouldn't have half the billionaires we have today. You have to set some priorities.

[cweiske@fosstodon.org]

@danirabbit Imagine if we took climate change seriously in 2026. How much death and suffering will be avoided.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@danirabbit the death and suffering was the point of ignorance.

[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@danirabbit I'm old enough to remember how for a short time we started to take it seriously in the 70s, even getting environmental legislation passed (some of it under Nixon [of all people]!), but by the 1980s reverted. Since that time, it's been a seesaw between administrations. One step forward, two steps back, and back...and back. It's been frustrating to see this happen during the course of my life.