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   Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:52:16 JST Ruth Mottram

   This is a little depressing but I think probably correct insight..

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   Europe’s new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
   https://econ.st/431ALmb

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 06:25:19 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #ClimateCrisis #MentalHealth

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     I don't think it is only a little depressing.

     Humankind seems mentally singularly I'll equipped to face #ClimateChange.

     On the one hand, it probably is collectively less apt to discern gradual, decades-long changes.

     On the other hand, the collective egotism as exemplified, for instance, by the #Swiss restaurant and hotel lobby in the article: as the resorts are forecast to be relatively snow-proof until 2100 ,...

     https://econ.st/431ALmb

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 06:31:03 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...making earnings safe for them and their children ( who cares about unborn progeny, right?), the are against stricter environmental controls.
     Similarly, it is true for other European voters, like the #Dutch or the #Germans.

     The article gives the impression that only #Switzerland's direct democracy leads to an acceptable(?) outcome regarding the environment.

     Representative democracies seem ill-equipped to deal with climate change.

     One...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 06:38:02 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #ClimateCrisis #MentalHealth

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     ...could arrive at the conclusion that a single-minded #dictator might be a solution.
     However, as can be seen by #Putler and #KimJongUn and the #WarInUkraine, they are the worst option with regard to saving our biosphere.

     As the British politician #LordActon noted:

     “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
     Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority;...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 06:38:33 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

     A sad result.

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