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[–] 4 points 30 minutes ago* (1 child)

The Trump administration officially eliminated the 2009 EPA "endangerment finding," stripping the federal government of its legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.The administration rolled back regulatory requirements for automakers, loosening curbs on gasoline-powered vehicle pollution. Trump has heavily promoted a "drill, baby, drill" energy agenda, easing limits on industrial pollutants and attempting to keep aging fossil-fuel infrastructure online. He routinely mocks climate science on social media, frequently pointing to severe winter weather or downward revisions in worst-case climate projections as supposed evidence against global heating.The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 hour ago* (5 children)

    No it isn't. It's a complex issue with enough blame to spread around. Most of the fault lies with the fossil fuel companies that covered up climate change, lied for decades and bought the politicians.

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    If you can vote for politician A and politician B, and both of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?

    And if citizens can be held accountable for the actions and choices that their goverment has made, even if they have no real say in them, and that government has committed war crime after war crime abroad, killing literal millions, does that mean citizens are a legitimate target for retaliatory attacks? Was the Dresden firebombing justified? Was 9/11 justified? Were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan justified?

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  • [–] 1 point 55 minutes ago* (1 child)

    Your options are much greater than voting for politician A or politician B

    Dont let your political program be handed down to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 minutes ago*

    I was responding to

    Tbf they voted for them

    hence my focus on voting, because that's what he was talking about. But also your broader comment is not a good argument for ageism. Plenty of members of the boomer generation exercised other political options than voting. They were not successful, but many of them did try. At any rate, blaming an entire generation for policy failures is about as valid as blaming Trump's policy failures on folks who voted for Harris.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I lived in SoCal for 15 years and it was always hot the first couple weeks of October. Not usually this hot but hot. Super El Niño I’m sure is helping with that

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  • [–] -1 points 47 minutes ago

    Yeah given the fact that last time this happened it generated hurricanes in parts of the world that don't normally get hurricanes, I'm going to go ahead and say that we could probably not include this year in the climate change models.

    It does no one any benefit at all to muddy the waters, and it just gives the climate change denyers some ammunition.

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  • [–] 1 point 49 minutes ago* (1 child)

    I don't understand why people think that October is supposed to be a cold month, it's never been a cold month, it's not until late October the leaves start turning brown. The coldest months are January and February.

    I blame Charles Dickens, he was the one that decided it had to snow in December, even though it never does.

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    [–] 31 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (8 children)

    It's scary and yet many people refuse to believe in climate change. I've had argument with a denier on social media. I can tell that the person is not being deliberately malicious, because he did let up on some points, but he's the type to kick the can down the road and hopelessly hoping to deal with the problem later on. I think a lot of people who handwaves the seriousness of climate change prefer to look the other way. I know far too many people who are like this even if it's not about climate change.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

    Here they claim it as a "natural process". Good ol denial

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    It is a natural process as humans are natural.

    And we are releasing natural stuff that is accelerating the change of the climate.

    It’s much easier to pretend humans aren’t impacting it if people are allowed paint humans actions as outside nature. We are a huge part of nature, there’s 6 billion of us.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 hours ago

    I've been the weird environmentally conscious kid for more than 30 years. People's attitudes haven't changed. The arguments haven't changed. You'll still find people who immediately get excited about global warming, because they like warm weather.

    Some people are just astonishingly stupid, and yet, they walk around and talk and have jobs and can appear to be normal. That's because they are normal. It is normal to be stupid.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 hours ago

    it reminds me of this quote from game of thrones, is not the same thing, but it gives the same vibe about the scope of people's thinking and worries: "The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago*

    I know scientifically minded people who view it both as 'hysteria,' and for what remains, something that geoengineering can solve in the future.

    In other words, look up the WSJ article advocating for fossil fuel production maximization as a net economic optimization in the long term, basically 'better to maximize efficiency and minimize suffering now, to better geoengineer solutions in the future.'

    ...I read geoengineering papers. They are horrific. As in "our state-of-the-art-solution would... pour acid rain over the ice caps. And it's still economically unfeasible, but less unfeasible. And maybe it will blunt things some?"

    I'm offended such arguments are being presented.

    But I can see right where those opinions come from, as with every twist of climate change denialism.


    The environmental conspiracists are right. It really is Big Oil and such groups, from what I can see.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (5 children)

    It easy always blaming the baby boomers and Gen X. But the millenials and Gen Z are nearly just as cupable of global warming.

    The amount of time we spend on the internet and the wastefull use of products contribute a lot to global warming.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

    Stupid blaming the individual instead of holding the corporations accountable.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 hours ago

    Impose voting rights restrictions that reduce their access. Take the average life expectancy in your country, reduce the number by whatever the voting age is in your country. Cut off their right to vote by that number.

    In the USA, where you can vote at 18, if the average life expectancy is 81 (made up a number), voting would end after 63. Pretty good way to ensure longterm thinking prevails.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    My parents keep saying "it's always been like this here"

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  • [–] 30 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Funny. My parents say the same thing. "This is just fear mongering. We had warm Autumns in my childhood."

    Then I go look into the actual data of what their warmest years were and it's nowhere near what we're experiencing these days.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 hours ago

    You don't even need to go into "actual data" which can be hand waved away as conspiracy by Big Whatevs. Find pictures of the past. Halloween photos, back to school pictures, stuff like that.

    Thats been startling here even over 10 years. Last year I was in my shorts and a thin hoodie feeling warm. My phone popped up "memories from 10 years ago" and it was us at the same event in big coats looking cold and miserable.

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  • [–] 114 points 10 hours ago (19 children)

    Blaming older generations instead of the powerful and wealthy is dumb and counterproductive.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Ya, my grandma never had a private jet or a megayacht. Not sure how her 300sq ft bungalow she lived in for 40 years and tending a community garden plot led to the environmental and socioeconomical issues we face now.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    But they did elect the politicians who caused the damage. A majority, anyway.

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  • And Americans did elect trump who is ruining the world. The majority of people are voting with their money day by day to make billionaires more rich, and our only home more and more unhabitable even now. Nothing new, same old shit, same patterns.

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  • [–] 107 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

    The older generation ceded our power to the wealthy. They went gleefully along with tax policy designed to move money to the top, anti union legislation, increasing costs of education, stymieing environmental regulation, not pursuing and enforcing trust busting measures, offshoring industry, etc , etc. They weren't the driving force, you could claim they were tricked, but it was their own short sighted greed and often bigotry that allowed them to go along with it. And they by and large continue to support all that same shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 hours ago

    And Gen-Z helped elect Trump in 2024.

    Saying that problems are because if a certain group of people is just dumb analysis. It is always about broader systems of power. Capitalism has it's ways to bend democracy to it's will.

    The ruling class wants you to blame the elderly for the problems in the world. Because then you aren't focused on the real issues.

    If we really wanna fix problems instead of fighting each other, we need to really stop bigotry in all it's forms and start becoming class conscious.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    So by your nonsensical logic the current young generation is at fault for ceding more power than have been ceded in a long time to fascist oligarchs in the US.

    It is plain bullshit nonsense. And you have gobbled up all of the ageism propaganda created by the oligarch propagandeers to make you completely forget the actual issue of class war.

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    [–] 25 points 7 hours ago* (7 children)

    Holy fuck. So this is the start of Super El Nino. I'm gonna call it, "winter that wasn't".

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    [–] 8 points 6 hours ago

    "Honey, but all I did was work for Denny's"

    "Time for your MAID appointment grandma"

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