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If we all cycled like the Dutch, CO2 emissions would drop by 690 million tonnes (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by savjee@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You won’t convince people, so it’s DOA

That pretty much sums up any approach by humans to do something about what's happening to the planet. Anything anyone throws out is realistically DOA.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe. I think sometimes we get disillusioned because incremental progress is hard to feel in the face of systemic momentum, but things are getting better. Often in ways that are far less ...genocidey... Than willful extinction.