Because admitting climate change is real means effort and change.
- Effort, because those responsible for causing climate change need to be deposed. Nobody will make that change happen if their sofa is so comfy and there aren’t any problems that personally effect them.
- Change, because deposing those responsible for climate change also means getting rid of the system that enables them. If the solution to climate change were a drop-in replacement to something that requires no change whatsoever in daily norms it would have a lot more support.
Propaganda works. Is why.
Everyone likes palaeontology until it turns a profit, smh my head
Shaking my head my head
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Why is admitting that without oil, we can’t have 8 billion people?
Maybe having 8 billion people is another part of the problem.
Because that is simply not true.
Hard for the sheep to admit they sat on their hands while the Earth slow burned. Something about blindly following the rich and acting like temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
What are you doing StepOil
Stepbro, I’m stuck in the Hormuz strait!
Because it’s all about money.
My grandma litterly said “i cant hear it anymore”
There are politically motivated “think tanks” that pump out a lot of misinformation, in a similar vein as the tobacco lobbies used to do.
Either they claim that there’s no such thing as climate change, or “rising temperatures are of all times”, or “we humans didn’t cause climate change” to (in my country) “we’re just a tiny country, what we do, doesn’t make any difference on a global scale, because (insert third world country) will just continue to harm the environment”.
Some people (who seemingly are bereft of any conscience or empathy) are susceptible to such propaganda, because it makes them feel better than with the news about climate change.
1960s “That didn’t happen” Early(ish) research on climate change is buried.
1970s “And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.” Severity of impacts downplayed
1980s “And if it was, it’s not a big deal.” Oil companies form a coalition to oppose regulation."
1990s “And if it is, it wasn’t my fault.” Think tanks begin switch to accepting climate change but rejecting it’s anthropogenic nature."
2000s “And if it was, I didn’t mean it.” Oil companies try to disavow their earlier knowledge of research, engage in greenwashing.
2010s “And if I did, you deserved it.” BP, among others, encourages consumers to limit their carbon footprint to save the environment, despite the fact that the majority of contribution is from industrial and commercial sources.
This timeline is sloppy. There’s a lot of overlap. I’m more trying to paint a picture of what happened. In reality, the research is older. Some parties are still trying to argue the climate either isn’t changing or that the earth is getting colder. Chaos is an important part of disinformation.
for a bunch, it’s that their entire personality is wrapped up in burning carbon. they know it’s bad. they’re not completely stupid, they simply think their hobbies - vroom vroom bullshit like cars, bikes, trucks, dune buggies, rock-climbing jet skiing etc, they think it shouldn’t count because some other asshole is producing even more carbon than they are.
the cult of vroom vroom is gonna watch cars race in circles until we don’t have a breathable atmosphere, and they’ll never admit they’re the fucking problem too.
It’s not just cars. Cars are a problem because countries like America have such a hard on for driving bricks the size of a house. Efficiëncy might be a good start there…
Most of what you order online from Chinese factories is a bigger issue than some rally sport or F1. Hell driving a V8 engine full blast for a day is nothing compared to what some companies output in CO2 in seconds.
A modern car is not so bad at burning fuel efficiently. Driving electric is a great improvement, yes. but only if the electric energy is not made by burning a fossil fuel or turf or something. In that case burning it in an engine would probably be less of a pollutant. Politics are bad and corrupt. But many things are also much more complex in order to be solved, than just typing about people and their vroom vroom identity. If you want to improve the world start by doing something in your immediate surroundings. Vote for the people that show interest in renewables and such. Even in shithole countries like America, you can still change things.
By your logic, if your hobby would be anything other than Gardening or maintaining a wood, you are very much part of the problem. Even by using internet or charging any battery you are actively using the burning of fossil fuels. It’s unavoidable. So maybe do less of that if you care?
And no. I won’t stop using internet, or driving a car. But I am about to buy a home battery in combation with solar panels on my house to make sure I use as little electricity as possible from sources outside of the sun. I have enough money to do that and will spend it to change what’s within my power. No pun intended. The town I live in pays for each concrete tile you give to them, in return for plants that you can plant in the holes they leave. I planted several bushes and a fruit tree for free because of this.
I am not stating you or anyone else must do that too, because that’s not my place. But I can only advise that you try to change your own habits and be more mindful of what it is you use or do. Don’t attack others for doing the wrong thing but change what’s possible and help others try too.
This is precisely what I’m talking about, thank you for being an object lesson:
FOLKS
IT’S NOT ABOUT WHO’S DOING MORE BAD SHIT THAN YOU’RE DOING
IT’S ALL ADDING UP TO DESTROYING OUR ECOSYSTEM. YOUR PART COUNTS TOO. AND YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER IT.
IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO, THAT’S ON YOU - BUT STOP ACTING LIKE YOUR PART DOESN’T COUNT. IT DOES.
I’ll ‘attack’ everyone I see doing it, thanks.
Rock climbing?
sorry, I guess it’s more accurately called rock crawling:
these assholes go out to pristine wilderness, then let their shitmobiles carve it up leaving wheel ruts all over the place; inevitably there’s some fuckwit who wrecks their oil pan because they think they have clearance, leaving oil slicks over half the course.
these dickheads will tell you “oh what we’re doing doesn’t make that much CO2” - when they simply can’t realize, it’s all more than zero, and their burning our children’s future with ever rev of the engine.
Oh, that’s awful
I think they really meant “rock climbing jet skiing” which, like “extreme ironing”, is not for the feint of heart.
“I’ll have you know my great-great-great-great*108 ancestor turned into oil recently, have some damn respect for my deep family history!” /s
Behold! Your MUTHA SUPREME
I’m worried about Mao’ist style short sighted policy, and if we cut off oil then it will destroy the poor in society who cant afford an increase in their heating and gas. Get the funding for nuclear so you have baseload power first, dont just cut off oil companies.
Different approach: tax the rich and pay the worker. Renewables are financially sustainable then.
I’ll speak for the voices I hear around me because I hear this all the time in my conservative area:
Climate has demonstrably always been changing Our region has been cooler than average for all of the 2000s People don’t trust when the solution is always “give us more money and power”
curious about how exactly is advocating for climate change awareness asking for more money and power?
Generally speaking, that is often not the reality of it, but that is the perception that conservatives have.
Right wing propaganda media has been projecting the greed and desire for totalitarian control onto their opposition for decades.
That’s easy: because the side advocating about climate change wants to come into your home and ban your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas yard equipment, and your vehicles and replace them with “less efficient” versions. There is a ton of “pay more for less” FUD, and just enough of that FUD is or was true for that crowd to see it as a money/power grab.
The side against it is then amplifying all of that while blaming higher prices on the killing of coal and gas while spouting laissez faire freedom propaganda.
The global warming doesn’t exist side believes it is a grift the same way everyone outside the MAGA bubble believes the Alt Right influencer/commentator shit is a grift, or the Flat Earth movement is a grift. There are enough grifters and true believers in any system that can be cherry picked to reinforce any individual’s viewpoint.
All jokes aside what an amazing engineering marvel!
Like lead pipes!
