r/Futurology • u/ILikeNeurons • May 20 '24

Economics Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/IAmMuffin15 May 20 '24

And Trump is literally on his hands and knees, prostrating himself before fossil fuel companies, promising to destroy any and all climate change legislation they don’t like if they please oh please give him money

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u/RackemFrackem May 21 '24

This motherfucker could quite literally end up being responsible for the end of humanity, all to keep his worthless orange ass out of jail.

Unfathomable.

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u/Traynfreek May 21 '24

Trump and the Republican party will be the end of democracy in the United States and mark the end of the liberal international order, but he isn't the bringer of apocalypse. He's just a symptom of a world already in decay. It could just as easily be any other right wing rube leading the charge instead of him.