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Environment & Energy

hatrack

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3. I don't think you're wrong - though under such circumstances it raises an interesting question . . .

Reply to dutch777 (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:43 AM

Jan 16

What was government for, anyway?

It could see this coming, decades in advance and miles wide, and it still couldn't do jack shit because it chose not to? Or it couldn't see this coming? Either way, what's the point?

Oh well. How 'bout those Chiefs!!!!

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Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss [View all] hatrack Jan 16 OP

Politicians and billionaires have known this all along. Irish_Dem Jan 16 #1

Any action will only happen when it is too late. And any predictions today are probably way low/off. dutch777 Jan 16 #2

I don't think you're wrong - though under such circumstances it raises an interesting question . . . hatrack Jan 16 #3

The nature of our government is just the next election. Long term planning in not baked in. dutch777 Jan 16 #4