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The Climate Change Debate Is Long Over And There Is Nothing We Can Do

TomsWhip · 3M views · 2014-11-24 · 4:13

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A clip from The Newsroom season 3 in which characters argue that the climate change debate is over and only a technology to reverse emissions can help.

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Dropped into climate threads as a fictional but relevant fatalistic take, not as a recommendation.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2026

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throwaway_7678 · 2026-03 · Reference

Relevant clip, [VIDEO] . Even if people doesn't believe in science and reports like this, they believe it's getting hotter every year. The past few summers have been very bad and it's only going to become worse. We all will be busy in our virtual worlds arguing over stupid things and the real world will become literal hell to live in.

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headmelted · 2021-08 · Reference

Also people need to be presented with the consequences. I still know a lot of people who genuinely believe it means slightly warmer summers. They think I'm a crazy person when I mention the never-ending storms and lack of drinking water. Also just dropping this link here as I remember watching it at the time and thinking isn't it great we're not there yet: [VIDEO]

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mimikatz · 2021-04 · Reference

I thought we were already doomed and past the point where any change would matter 5 years ago? [VIDEO] Sure it is fiction, but a real take by people and that aired 6 years ago.

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