• zAkk@lemmy.world
    67·
    2 years ago

    We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      I might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. “We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes.” One sentence = one thought, right?

      Knowing humans, if we didn’t use this magical power to guide them to good solutions, a good number of us would conclude, “That’s it, we need to nuke China and India to save the Earth!”

  • MothBookkeeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    “MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions.”

    Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.

    Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:

    • Heavily taxing the rich
    • Enacting drastic climate policy
    • Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
    • Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun
    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      7·
      2 years ago

      Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      The Florida and Texas Governors have to fight to the death on a platform suspended by a stationary helicopter a mile over cocaine shark infested waters, and the pilot bailed out 20 minutes ago. Trump is the referee.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      5·
      2 years ago

      Lol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.

      I’m pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I’d do it again. No questions asked

  • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
    131·
    2 years ago

    The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they don’t eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.

  • Zeusbottom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

    “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

        • ramble81@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Thank you… I hate all the people who are “we’ll permanently destroy the earth and it’ll never recover!” crowd. Maybe for us it’ll be too inhospitable and we won’t survive, but nature is surprisingly resilient. From bacteria that can eat oil and plastic, to entire generations of flora and fauna living in irradiated landscapes, it will adapt and be here long after we’re gone.

          • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yes. Ecosystems as we know them will be decimated, but whatever survives will repopulate. Worse has happened before in Earth’s history.