• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In early September I was watching my nephew play a high school football game in 107 degree heat, sitting with my very Republican brother. We’re both old enough to remember when triple-digit heat was, maybe, on or two odd days in the summer and not a weeks-long affair.

    We talked about how hot it was, and I told him I think that within 10-15 years, it’s no longer going to be possible to play football in September without a covered field. What’s wild is he agrees, and I fully expect in the coming decade to see a whole wave of bond drives so high schools can build some means of field coverage.

    I don’t think it’s deniable now that human-made climate change is killing the world we knew. Data centers are hastening it, but we’ve seen the travel industry collapse twice in the last 18 years and, in that time, observed precipitous drops in pollution.

    We know the solution. We’re just powerless because billionaires are the polluters and billionaires control the world’s governments.