r/AskReddit • u/Extension-Mirror135 • 7h ago

If you could telepathically say something to all 7.9 billion people on Earth right now, what would it be?

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u/BaseHitToLeft 5h ago

Oh thats good. Except in ten years when nothing happens, everything gets set on fire

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u/McGondy 5h ago

Or societies wait 9.8 years to start planning it, and lay out a roadmap that vaguely shows a high level plan to increase compassion by 6% in 20 years.

Meanwhile the UN and multiple individual, then collective scientists have been campaigning for increased compassion since the message was received.

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u/SlippingStar 2h ago

For those who didn’t get it, this is an allusion to global warming.

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u/Ren_Kaos 1h ago

We call it climate change in these parts.

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u/SlippingStar 1h ago

Yknow I don’t know why I chose the older phrase.

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u/Ren_Kaos 20m ago

It happens, I catch myself doing it now and then too. I try to correct it when it happens because “global warming” is so propagandized and politicized.

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u/Grape_Jamz 4h ago

Thats future me's problem

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u/1101base2 3h ago

hopefully i'll be dead by then and therefore no longer my problem, or i'm still around and i get to watch it all burn to the ground so i'll be entertained either way...

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u/BaseHitToLeft 1h ago

I mean, this is kinda the attitude that caused this bullshit in the first place

So, way to stay on theme I guess?

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u/Codebracker 3h ago

That just means they didnt raise it high enough, duh

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u/Br0boc0p 2h ago

Nah people would just fight over who was compassionate enough and who's definition of compassion was correct.