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'Unprecedented heat': Iran begins two-day nationwide shutdown amid soaring temperatures (www.cnbc.com)

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The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compared to the annihilation of our environment? Hello! It’s reaching 55 degrees quite regularly if you’ve failed to notice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sacrifice you demand is life-ending. From the perspective of the person you demand it of, it is not better than the alternative.

It also is not a solution. Even if cars stopped being a thing across the world right now, it would only slow global warming down a little, not stop it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Billions of people live without their own car. Transportation is an unfair advantage to get ahead and it costs the rest of us profoundly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Billions of people live without their own car.

…in abject poverty. No one deserves that. They must be lifted out of poverty as soon as possible, and yeah, that includes giving them access to transportation, preferably powered by something non-planet-destroying.

Transportation is an unfair advantage to get ahead and it costs the rest of us profoundly.

Humans would all still be living in caves and dying in their 30s if everyone thought like you do. There isn't much hope for our species, but if it were up to you, there would be none at all.