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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My parents are well off and my dad specifically really takes pride in the fact that my siblings and I will inherit their wealth. He also claims to be concerned with the environment and made a huge deal about us turning off lights when leaving rooms and is adamant that we recycle all the plastic we use.

Explaining that lights use barely any electricity and that our area is powered 100% by renewables does not matter to him. Explaining that most plastic "recycling" ends up in landfills or burned does not matter to him. Explaining to him that EVs are still really fucking bad for the environment and that if he really cared he would take transit/bike does not matter to him.

Idk what my point is other then, in my experience, most ~~boomers~~ people that claim to care, don't give a fuck about protecting the environment if it means making even the smallest sacrifices to their way of life. They want all the satisfaction of being "someone who cares" without actually putting the effort it. Obviously I'm projecting my own experience on to this comic, but these type of people deserve to be ridiculed. Hypocrisy and ignorance aren't going to fix themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Idk, they’ve also been systematically lied to by people they trust. The whole recycling thing was indoctrinated into my generation at school. These things are hard to overcome and our society is built around cars.