• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    You know what would be useful in a societal collapse? Electric vehicles and solar panels.

    Hopefully peppers aren’t building zombie busses because they’ll be useless in 6 months after the oil stops flowing.

    An ev with a charger panel and bicycles will be useful indefinitely.

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      8 minutes ago

      “We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky…”

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      you would get murdered for those rather quickly, i’d imagine. what would be useful is to get far away from strangers somewhere defendable near fresh water.

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      That’s why Musk is backing Trump and Putin and trying to turn the world into Thunderdome. EVs will reign supreme.

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    We can’t even figure out how to not have half our society be rasict, how the hell are we gonna save a whole planet from our fuckery?

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      We’re not gonna be able to combat climate change under capitalism anyway. The number one thing we need to do is to produce less but that goes directly against what capitalism needs to function. Not to mention that governments are bribed by companies to make laws in their favour.

      But hey, what’s the point of saving our planet anyway if we can’t maximize profits anymore?

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        Yep. And if you mention this, you’re a commie and capitalism is the greatest thing ever and under socialism we will all starve and have nothing and it never worked look at Cuba.

        Like capitalism works, and there are no imaginable alternatives.

        Just don’t use resources to produce that much useless crap to just dump it in a landfill or burn it? Is it so hard to understand?

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        There are a large number of people out there who seem to be deliberately making it worse - not even for profit, but just out of spite.

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          Tbf, I think a certain minimum amount of intelligence is required to even qualify for that statement, which I suspect disqualifies most… but yeah, underneath that, there do seem to be a few, like Jeff Bezos.

          Though Donald Trump himself I see more like a monkey doing its thing, as much a symptom as a feed-forward cause of his own. I ain’t saying that he’s not “evil” in his own way, just that he lacks sufficient character for his brand of it to have had any effect at all, if it weren’t for the fact that the systems were so broken to begin with. Money (his father’s in his case) corrupts.