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We also solved Peak Oil, Acid Rain and saved the whales.

Though we have yet to shoot the seals

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In what way did we solve peak oil - by continuing to burn more every year? Climate scientists are going out of their minds.

Is PFAS rain that much better than acid rain? Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth.

As for the whales, that's nice they got a reprive... But we're still extinctifying species at 100-1,000x the background rate.

And the people responsible for all of this are not strung up, nor even imprisoned. They're fucking around on mega-yachts and private planes (environmental atrocities in themselves).

Peak Oil was about the world running out of oil.

Ah, so we 'solved' it by finding so much more oil that life on Earth would be burned to a crisp long before we used it all, then just burning more every year.

All while subsidizing oil companies to an absurd degree, even as they make record profits and avoid liability for environmental disasters.

So glad we 'solved' that. How great for us, and what an interesting example of how we come together to solve global scale crises that was.

Maybe we can solve PFAS rain by coating everything in Teflon so the PFAS don't stick.

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