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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Yes, her fault individually, nothing to do with the systems beyond her control at the time.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood." - John Ruskin

We are part of the whole.

[–] BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, but "that is entirely your fault, grandma" generates a lot more discussion than "yeah, but you were a participant in a system along with billions of others which hid its externalities until it was too late to do anything about them"

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