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Fossil fuels.
Things have slowly drifted from "we might wanna consider doing something before this becomes a problem" to "we need an immediate and concrete plan" to "anything short of immediate and drastic action is killing and will continue to kill people" over the course of the last decade or two.
Watch it gain traction now peoples' holidays are under threat!
I swear, it's exasperating; tell people their kids will die young? Silence. Tell them they can't go to Kos and take fucking cocktail pictures for socmed and it's front page news.