Post #3896217

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Agreed. We didn't beat #Covid: we grew bored of it, abandoned all infection control measures, and called it victory. There are striking parallels between Covid and #GlobalWarming: both get politicised; both get denied; both are subjects of wishful thinking (vax-and-relax and carbon capture, respectively); and we have the tools to deal with them both, but we refuse to use them. Our response to Covid was a speed-run of our response to global warming, and both responses are caused by the same human characteristics. If people just wore a respirator in the office and the supermarket, their risk of Covid would be substantially reduced, but that's apparently too much to ask. The sacrifices people would have to make to reduce #GHG emissions are far larger than that. There's not a chance that people will make them. I hope you're enjoying this summer, because it only gets hotter from here.