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Anyone living in Europe now will tell you the problem is of dire importance today. 2025 may have actually been a conservative estimate for the halt of global economic growth.

Today we have a massive heat wave in June which threatens half a billion people in the first world who have never needed air conditioning. France has already seen high temps of 115 f.

It boggles the mind to think the American government is actively accelerating this crisis.

It boggles the mind to think the American government is actively accelerating this crisis.

It shouldn't. They're effectively owned by the fossil fuel/military/prison industrial complex. And the billionaires who run things would rather build bunkers in New Zealand than actually fix the problems they've created because they're so insulated from them that they no longer understand how the world actually works.

I mean what did we expect would happen when we based our economy around the rule that everyone must maximize profits at all costs, eh.

The sun is getting hotter, is America to blame for that too?

CO2 doesn't matter.

Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

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