I often wonder how the general population will react when they truly realize the impacts of climate change. I’d imagine there could be three reactions:

  • Apathy, as in completely shutting down
  • Panic, as in severe mental breakdown
  • Action, protesting etc

Now that I think of it these are the fight, flight, freeze reactions. Any thoughts?

  • redballooon@lemm.ee
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    Denial that humans have anything to do with it.

    Severe crackdown on any sort of migration, which of course is incompatible with liberal democracies, so they’ll be replaced by autocracies of various sorts.

    If you look closely, it’s already happening.

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      Oligarchs funding a resurgence of fascism in order to protect the global system that is wrecking the environment, successfully it seems.