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Here's an even simpler explanation: The planet is dying and the leading candidate on the right is publicly whoring it out to the highest bidder. The people on the left aren't much better because most of US politics is under the thumb of the worst market forces.

It's hard not to be depressed in the middle of an extinction event for most species.

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Here's a much, much simpler explanation: believing in delusional nonsense correlates strongly with mental illness.

Seems sound, one look at the stolen election true believers, jewish space laser upvoters, anti vaxxer brain wormers, et al and the correlation is clear.

Doesn't seem to mesh so well with "the further left.." part of the assertion though.

It’s clear that the real culprit is misinformation if you truly think the planet is dying.

"The planet is dying" is shorthand. We're changing it too rapidly for existing species to adapt and they are dying out. That is fact. Does that mean the planet will become uninhabitable forever? Probably not, Earth can bounce back if given a few million years. That's a small comfort for those of us alive today.

It's a lazy misleading shorthand. The planet has and will survive and thrive even when 90% of species go extinct.

90% of species going extinct is a pretty bleak scenario, no hyperbole is necessary.

Misleading to who? Sounds like we both knew what I meant.

In any case, my point stands that accelerated extinction is depressing, and this is applauded by the right.

You're also wrong that we'll be in the 10% that survives. Unless you've learned how to live without water.

> live without water.

The Middle East is surviving just fine without sufficient access to fresh water; desalination makes water more expensive but not significantly so.

The things we're doing to the ocean won't be fixed with desalination.

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