• Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    40 years ago.

    It’s so easy to lose sight among all the gish-galloping nonsense around these topics just how long the problem has been almost fully understood and very clearly articulated. It’s absolutely devastating to think about how catastrophically the world has failed to meet the challenge he describes here in the intervening decades.

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      4 months ago

      “gish-galloping nonsense”- Yes well largely because the O&G producers hire marketing firms to steer people’s minds away from the climate crisis. Advertising at/sponsoring sports like Canadian hockey games is a prime example.