• rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
    561·
    5 days ago

    Getting good things for bad reasons is about the best we can hope for right now.

    Lets take it.

    • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      21·
      5 days ago

      On the one hand yeah, on the other: meh – any benefits by doing something good will soon be offset by something twice as bad. Coal powered AI pump and dumps, subsidies to airlines and regional aiports that replace aging railway networks, infinite more lanes on highways.

      I think good public policy at this point is putting alcohol and microdoses of barbiturates in the tap water and outlawing good looking people wearing clothes in public. These are achievable goals within any of the political systems currently accessible to us, beating climate change is not.

  • Aqarius@lemmy.world
    25·
    5 days ago

    Some environmentalist is sitting in his office right now, just thinking, “Holy shit, they bought it. They actually bought it!”

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 days ago

    Hey uhh, Finland… Hi, it’s the Netherlands here. We found that doesnt really work anymore. Didn’t work in 1940, doubt it works now.

    But don’t let that stop you!

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 days ago

      For the Netherlands to do it properly would put half the country underwater. I think Finland has a much better chance to succeed because they didn’t build most of the country below sea level to start with.