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David Ellis
@d5e5
Over three hundred people downvoted this video. Presumably they find it too long (3 minutes), or they don't feel they have any responsibility or capacity to deal with the #ClimateCrisis, or they personally benefit from turning the biosphere into a poisonous pile of plastic debris
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Ira Hunter
@IraHunter8
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Watch "David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall want to talk to you about #climatechange" on YouTube youtu.be/CMOEcUPGi9c
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David Ellis
@d5e5
Maybe I should have chosen a more appropriate hashtag. Although I'm inclined to believe in the reality of anthropogenic climate change, I think the video points out that if we don't radically reduce our consumption & pollution we will leave an ugly mess as our legacy. #extinction
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David Ellis
@d5e5
I'll grant that some thoughtful people have doubts that climate change is primarily man-made. Nevertheless, our current rate of growth, upon which predatory industrial capitalism depends, will make our lives not only shorter, but worse.
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
That's the elephant in the room... overpopulation. But you won't hear Greta Thunberg and her constituency talk about that. Some suspect the "climate crisis" is a ploy by the left to gain political power.
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David Ellis
@d5e5
If anyone wants to come up with a ploy to *lose* political power, might I suggest mentioning the elephant in the room, overpopulation?
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