• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Not until any of this directly impacts people, like with famine, water scarcity, war, or panic from civilization collapse … no one will care about what’s going on with the world’s oceans.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      9 months ago

      And then they’ll beg their leaders to do what can no longer be done. One of the reasons we’re heading down a very bad timeline is that many people really don’t seem to get the notion of a problem that must be fixed before its effects hit, and can’t be fixed once the effects are felt.

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      9 months ago

      It already does. Just not so much in the countries that are most responsible for the pollution.

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        9 months ago

        Western nations will realize it soon enough.

        “What surprised us was the rate at which tipping occurs,” said the paper’s lead author, René van Westen, of Utrecht University. “It will be devastating.”