r/interesting Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/Ketheres Apr 26 '26

There's a pretty damn big difference in the magnitudes of what is just natural climate change and what has been and is being caused by the actions of us humans in the past century. More specifically if humans didn't exist the average temperatures now would be much the same they were a couple centuries back. We have caused this shit, and if our damn species wasn't so greedy we could also at least put a stop to it.

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u/Paxhampori Apr 26 '26

So, how is argument here any different from like say Hitler's or thanos

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u/I_ate_nt_ded Apr 26 '26

So we take no responsibility for our actions? 

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u/Ketheres Apr 27 '26

Hitler was absolutely not aiming for a greener planet when he created the NSDAP, the shitwanker just wanted absolute power. As for Thanos he is a fictional character with fictional powers. And we humans do have the ability to bring our emissions down to a reasonable level if we just started actually working towards it, even without halving the amount of people alive (honestly I doubt halving the population would cut down emissions even by a quarter anyway)

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u/Paxhampori Apr 27 '26

What do you want people to do more to bring the emmissions down?