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But it's YOUR city, why aren't YOU saving it? It's been known for ages that Venice will sink unless "something is done about it" but nothing has ever been done about it. As a tourist I've seen lots of amazing art and artifacts everywhere in Italy but a lot of it is left to wither. No one seem to be interested in taking care of it.

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You could say the same about climate change. It's a collective mistake, everybody knows about it, yet we can't fix it.

It's YOUR planet, why aren't YOU saving it? As an earthling I've seen a lot of amazing nature everywhere on earth but a lot of it is left to wither. No one seem to be interested in taking care of it.

We are hopeless in long term thinking.

The Earth is a progressively changing place ever since its formation it's been changing how long are we supposed to try to hold Earth at "normal" "correct" levels? Climate change is most probably natural at maximum accelerated a slight amount it was always going to happen.

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." — Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting climate change requires global coordination. Saving Venice requires national coordination and therefore should be far easier to achieve.

"Italy has also invested billions of euros in a flood-protection system known by the acronym MOSE, but its offshore underwater dams have yet to be completed."

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