#this is a good reminder
i need y'all to get that headlines about climate change are supposed to spur people to action, and scientists sound the alarm because humanity still CAN do something, not because it’s inevitable and Literally Everyone Will Die
DoNOT let people let you forget that our world is still as habitable as it is today because of the work of scientists and activists of the past, that things would be MUCH WORSE now if people hadn’t acted.
Remember the ozone hole? Remember that? You haven’t heard about that in a little bit huh? THAT’S BECAUSE WE FIXED THE PROBLEM. If no one had done anything, there would be holes in the ozone layer all over the place and we would be slowly irradiated by the sun. THE EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN UNINHABITABLE BY MIDCENTURY.
Every time you repeat the line that “Unless we end capitalism worldwide, there’s literally nothing we can do to help climate change!” the people that devoted their lives to saving species that would be gone now, preserving habitat that would be obliterated now, and fixing problems that would have been well along the way to making us extinct by now beam psychic rays of contempt in your direction
