• angrymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My uber driver said that global warming is actually true but have literally nothing about human influence.

    Some years ago these persons were saying that global warming was a hoax, now that only the human influence is a hoax.

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      1 year ago

      I always hated that argument from people.

      Even if they’re right — which we all know they are not — it wouldn’t matter. Climate change is going to devastate human life if we do nothing. If, somehow, the source of the warming wasn’t human-caused, we’d still need to find a way to counteract it. It’s not our fault doesn’t prevent it from being our problem.

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        “it has nothing to do with human influence” “Ok, then let’s prepare for the inevitable, strengthen infrastructure, prepare for mass migrations, improve our crops to sustain bigger variances in weather, evacuate people from flood danger zones, ensure our supply chain doesn’t collapse, fund poor countries so they can survive better, etc. You know, prepare for the crisis”

        :| >:(

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        I had a guy tell me once that maybe climate change is just the Earth getting closer to the sun, and we should send an astronaut up to the Hubble telescope so they can look through it and measure the distance to the sun…

        I’ve known this guy for over a decade, and it’s not that he’s stupid, he’s just completely ignorant about climate change and doesn’t put in any effort to learn about science.

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      Ahhh, yes. The conservative backpedalling.

      It’s not happening. It’s happening but it’s all cyclical. It’s not cyclical this time but it’s not our fault. It’s our fault but global warming is good ackshually. Global warming is bad but there’s nothing we can do about it. We could do something about it but it’s too expensive/late. Maybe it’s not too expensive but THE CHINESE!

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        In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

        Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

        In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.

        Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.

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        but global warming is good ackshually.

        My dad unironically used this argument when we were talking about this last week. Some people have their heads so far up their own ass, it’s just sad.

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      Had a argument with a person on YouTube, he thought that increased CO2 in the atmosphere would be beneficial. It would help plants grow better!

      Also that humans was not behind it.

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      The sad thing is we’re supposed to be in a ice age. The plant is further away from the sun about the same plane since the last ice age.

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        If you’re based in the UK, then all you can do is smile at the shit we have to deal with government-wise. If you don’t laugh, you’ll go mad, kinda thing.

        That ‘Four Stage Strategy’ is horribly, horribly apt even today.

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      I’ve found a clever way to counter those folks is to say, “you might be right, and as the apex species it’s our moral obligation to seize control and protect the natural order of things for as long as we are able to slow the coming of hell on earth. Just like our right to shoot guns. Yee haw.”