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[–] solivine@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well they projected it to take a few decades... a few decades ago

[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since the 70s. 50 years ago.

Jimmy Carter make a speech about it. Everyone laughed at him and called him a pussy.

[–] Smoogy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And again when al gore warned everyone with uncomfortable truth in 2006

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

With an Inconvenient* Truth.

An uncomfortable truth would have been in the backseat of a Volkswagen (that's a Mall Rats joke for anyone keeping track at home).

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in the nineties. But we had lots of time then, so no rush…


Back when I was young and naive I figured the Kyoto Protocol would work. We had lots of time then. The climate change is a hoax thing didn't really take off until the early aughts as I recall.