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> to vote

sounds like a waste of time

a few times per decade the citizens are presented with a few multifaceted people, who will then go on nominate other people

its very easy for someone to agree with your foreign policy and disagree with how you expect the government to spend resources on climate change

this is an irreconcilable conundrum with the vote




> sounds like a waste of time

Every degree we can stave off warming will shave billions+ of dollars off impact. People are already migrating to escape climate impact on fragile economies. Communities on atolls are weighing abandoning them entirely[1]. The sea has salted the groundwater on Tuvalu[2].

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/risin...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/o...


My post was about voting being a waste of time to change this. Did you read past those 6 words?


Before you embark on non-democratic measures I think it behoves to try one more time. But I am also unhappily confident it won't work




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