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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2021-11-15 at 1:59 PM UTC
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2021-11-15 at 4:03 PM UTC
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2021-11-15 at 5:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc Then why you trying so hard to change my mind about it then?
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I'm pretty sure what you are reacting to is the incredibly dark vision of the future these people put out, as well as their creepy, totalitarian solutions (the whole climate justice shit).
If instead of trying to fearmonger they presented a positive vision for the future of the world, people might actually listen. Instead it's all penance and darkness, guilt and pain, fire and brimstone, typical post-Christian shit.
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2021-11-15 at 6:21 PM UTCYeah that's protestants all over tho
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2021-11-15 at 6:27 PM UTC
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2021-11-15 at 6:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump I'm pretty sure what you are reacting to is the incredibly dark vision of the future these people put out, as well as their creepy, totalitarian solutions (the whole climate justice shit).
If instead of trying to fearmonger they presented a positive vision for the future of the world, people might actually listen. Instead it's all penance and darkness, guilt and pain, fire and brimstone, typical post-Christian shit.
Quite the demonic little radical leftist squeaker. -
2021-11-15 at 6:58 PM UTCSee looks like the Aliens out of "Fire in the Sky"
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2021-11-15 at 7:17 PM UTCGreta is a good example of a false ally, the only people who like her are the people who were already all in on climate change anyway. Everyone else kinda seems to hate her.
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2021-11-15 at 7:35 PM UTCAnd I bet her snatch is a unkempt haystack
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2021-11-15 at 7:52 PM UTC
With outright climate science denial relegated to the fringes, opponents of urgent action on climate emergency have been forced to switch tack. Alongside pro forma acknowledgments that climate breakdown is happening and vague commitments to a greener future (“Of course I want to leave this planet in a better place than I found it, we all want that,” Mackinlay told the BBC recently), the inactivists – a loose coalition of fossil-fuel interests, conservative ideologues and supportive politicians and journalists – seek to redirect responsibility for the problem away from the fossil fuel industry and towards individual consumers, as well as developing nations in the global south. When solutions to the climate crisis are proposed by inactivists, they tend to be timid and unambitious, with faith in future (as yet unrealised) “green” technologies held up as a reason to shy away from serious structural changes now.
But there is now an even more powerful weapon in the inactivist armoury. It comes in the form of an appeal to social justice: one that casts environmentalists as an aloof, out-of-touch establishment, and the inactivists as insurgents, defending the values and livelihoods of ordinary people. “The biggest single threat to the net zero transition is a culture war-style backlash that heavily politicises this agenda and spooks governments into moving more slowly,” says Murray. “At present, it’s on the periphery. But as the past few years have taught us, ideas that were on the periphery can become very influential, very quickly.”
Attempts to mobilise anti-elite sentiments against climate activists are nothing new. Wealthy celebrities who lecture others on environmental sustainability have always been charged with inauthenticity. In the 00s, Republican attacks on Al Gore, the former US vice-president whose personal fortune tops $300m, were one of the main drivers of polarisation among the American public on green issues. What has altered in the decade and a half since the release of Gore’s seminal 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, is our political landscape. In many parts of the world, the financial crash and years of subsequent turmoil have shredded electoral support for parties and politicians associated with the old order and propelled new forces into power, from Trump in the US to Brexiters in the UK.
Popular anger at the economic insecurities that are synonymous with 21st-century capitalism – which in the UK have included soaring housing costs, the casualisation of employment and sustained falls in wages – has provided an opening for any political forces presenting themselves as radical outsiders, fighting on behalf of the voiceless masses. On the right, these grievances have been fused with a cultural resentment towards highfalutin virtue-signalling and liberal elites. -
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2021-11-15 at 9:02 PM UTCBritish Columbia, Canada had been hit with two once-in-a-lifetime disasters in less than one year. Currently all major routes to the interior of the province have been cut off:
https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/351592/Evacuations-flooded-streets-in-Princeton-Tulameen -
2021-11-15 at 9:07 PM UTCThe idiots didn't buy and build on high ground. They deserve everything they get. They'll never learn the lesson, unless they experience it the hard way.
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2021-11-15 at 9:18 PM UTC
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2021-11-15 at 9:21 PM UTC
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2021-11-15 at 9:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by Nile Yeah. Like that time those dumbasses in Calgary built in a flood plain.
You know what happened? Yeah.
We have idiots over here who build right on the shore of a river which regularly floods. Their homes get destroyed, they sell the properties, the next fools come right along and buy and rebuild, the flood comes again, and the cycle repeats. It's been that way for the past 150 years, unending. The insurance companies won't even take them, but that doesn't stop them one bit. Then they get on facebook and cry about it and do their little song and dance. Literally double-digit IQs.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-15 at 11:15 PM UTC
