We kept saying the irrational behavior in response to climate change is because the lag between actions and consequences takes years and the total effects happen over decades But this pandemic's lag is A WEEK and the whole crisis has been TWO MONTHS And it's THE SAME THINGhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1259083517952028672 …
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"GRAB THE ROPE YOU IDIOT" "It's too late, if you wanted me to grab the rope you should've told me that when I was at the top of the cliff when grabbing it would be easy, now it's hard The speed I'm falling I could dislocate my shoulder that way, don't you know any science"
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"Look falling is just what we do now, it's how life works, and we have to accept that we're now a falling culture and learn how to fall with grace for the foreseeable future Trying to stop the fall by grabbing onto something could cause serious injury and make this worse"
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"But when you hit the ground --" "Ground? Ground? You sound so confident about the future, like you hire everything Do we even know there is a ground? Has anyone ever been to the ground? Can you show me this ground of yours?"
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"We thought the ground would be there when we stepped off the cliff, and it WASN'T Some people apparently can't learn from history"
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Speaking as a survivor of battery, this is sort of an often-unfortunate “feature”, not a bug. Human brains are adaptable. We can trick ourselves very easily into accepting a new normal if we believe we can’t control it. It’s a very instinctive thing.
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