• phreekno@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They went from denying to shifting the blame and responsibility to the consumer to now sayin “well its too late, oh well, better luck next time chap”

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    My conservative father brought up something akin to climate change, so I raised one eyebrow and hit him with my best Jon Stewart “do go on…”, then he immediately switched gears to how it’s climate cycles and blah blah blah, I just laughed and changed the subject so he couldn’t bog me down into a political argument on my birthday.

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      I’m not going to watch a video for information - but to essentially agree with you, good person, I assume the general summary went from

      • “climate change isn’t real”
      • to “ok sure climate change is real but it’s not caused by humans”
      • and then next is “ok fine it was us but it’s too late to prevent it anyway”
      • followed by fiery death
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        But the billionaires will have built lifetime self sustaining areas and bunkers by then.

        Or…

        They’ll discover immortality and be like, “come on guys, we only have one planet.”

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        followed by fiery death

        Any minute now, they’ll be saying it’s the Apocalypse and a welcome fulfillment of Biblical prophecy (see also: Israel).

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    I’m glad he took a moment to specify the difference between pessimism and doomism.

    I readily admit that I’m a quiet pessimist… but I also hope I’m wrong, and I still think we should do everything possible to combat climate change.