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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics (www.ipolitics.ca)
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The overall message here I think is: action is still necessary, but the reality is that we're too caught up in politics and economics and we missed our chance at mitigation. Now we need to look to how to cope with what's coming.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The billionaires know they've already f*cked everything, so now they're funding authoritarians everywhere to release the legal and regulatory valves, allowing them to just suck up one last big bag of wealth to fund their bunkers for what is to come. That's why the masks have come off lately, they don't care to hide their motivations any more -- they think it's past the point of no return, and they just want to grab what they can as quickly and brutally as possible before things really go into the crapper.

https://theconversation.com/billionaires-are-building-bunkers-and-buying-islands-but-are-they-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-or-pioneering-a-new-feudalism-223987

https://nypost.com/2022/09/24/how-the-worlds-billionaires-are-paying-to-escape-global-disaster/

There should be a concerted effort to uncover and document where they've been building their bunkers and hidden underground paradises so we can throw potatoes into the ventilators and shit in the water intakes when the time comes. Let their retreats become their tombs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would you waste a potato on the air vent..? Just cover it with mud. Maybe shove the rotting corpse of something in their first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

When I die just throw me in the ~~trash~~ billionaire's air duct