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[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago

To watch climate change is to know what the deer in the headlights must feel.

Powerless to change alter fate and prevent our death, while being forced to watch it's screeching approach.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We wouldn't be powerless to change, though, if conservatives were not working tirelessly to prevent us from changing. Conservatives are holding the wheel and forcing us off the cliff. And they are mocking us as they kill us.

[-] wolf6152@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

We’re witnessing the birth of the new pasture lands the deer will graze on after humanity has been roasted off the planet.

Think positive

[-] deus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I don't think there are deer on Antarctica, or any herbivores for that matter. It would be interesting to wait thousands of years and see what comes around to fill that niche.

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

There aren't any now

[-] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

You're conveniently failing to mention the millions of people who will suffer and die with no fault of their own. This is not positive thinking, it's privilege and ignorace.

[-] mercury 16 points 1 year ago

I think you're missing the joke of the above comment

[-] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's positive for all the things that will thrive after humanity is gone.

So there's that.

[-] wolf6152@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I didn’t conveniently fail to mention shit. I hate people and look forward to a lot of us dying from our own ecological mismanagement.

[-] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Tell that to younger generations in developing countries - they have done nothing wrong and will suffer because of other's actions. It's debatable how much people like you and me - provided you are someone selling labor and consuming averagely living in a developed country like me - can do compared to highly emitting upper-class people, but we certainly can't just accept the consequences of climate change like it only affects us or we are the judges of letting it doom those least responsible but most affected.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Deer usually have ample power to prevent their death; most of the time they have sufficient time to get out of the way, but they do not do so.

Which really makes the comparison even more on point, since as a whole our civilization could have taken action but chose not to.

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