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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Personally I'm of the opinion that tipping points should not be a focus. I think people have reached a level of fear saturation, and no more fear can influence the system, it just precipitates right back out. While you can replace one fear with another, this can be inoculated against with faith, which is fairly accessible and common.

I think we need to actually take a page from Biden here, and stop pumping fear and consequences, and start pumping hope. Our stick is so waved the thing is fraying, but our carrots are underutilized.

Guys like Elon Musk, of all fucking people, are beating us in the hope dept. How the fuck did that happen?

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

We need organization and action of the masses commensurate with the danger. That would give me some hope for once.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago
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