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If Putin decides to end the US and Europe (which is a very real possibility), the climate will be forever destroyed. We need to put long term climate policies on hold, until we deal with this WORLD ENDING event: a Nuclear holocaust. Getting mad and putting paint on old art just seems childish at this point, there are bigger fish to fry.

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It's a possibility but not a remotely likely one.

If Putin decides to launch nuclear weapons at US/Europe, then US would do the same from their Ohio class submarines. Everyone knows this. But it's useful for Russia to amplify the threat since it distracts politically from their losing war in Ukraine.

Now since it's not likely we should focus on what is likely and that is climate change.

The question isn't whether Putin knows what it means, but rather whether he cares. Between his religiosity, the kinds of people he takes on as advisors, and his mystery illness, it is possible that "we will go to heaven" was more than just a bad joke.

I don't see how one excludes the other. What do we need to do with Putin that excludes us fighting climate change?

In my mind that is like taking a car to a carwash, right before driving it off a cliff. There really isn't a need for a carwash. There are 2k nuclear missles pointed to us - with a mad man about to push a button. Sure recycle. But.

Well not everyone can be involved in international diplomacy.

So for the rest of the world maybe we can focus on climate change.

So why are you still going to your job and working/studying/ doing whatever you do daily instead of going full time political activist or something else? After all your jdaily thing won't matter if the world dies in nuclear fire. By your own logic it makes no sense to continue working and instead you should divert all your resourced to stopping Putin.

That makes no sense. If you are worried about the climate being destroyed, I would focus on stopping a nuclear holocaust, which has a much more real chance of destroying this planet [currently]. If you are not worried about the world ending (and are normal), then ignore it.

This was the case for 70 years and thus far all the mad man where all to wise not to press it, because at the end of the day they know how it will end.

We didn't stop all human activity or activism for the last 70 years and neither should we have done so.

This is the biggest Whataboutism if have ever heart of.

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