Well, I can't help but notice it's mostly those billionaires and the people who work for them who are telling us there's a climate issue and WE need to solve it while they continue to fly everywhere on their private jets and buy more waterfront mansions they tell us will be underwater in 10 years.

So IDK man... I'm certainly not a climate scientist but something doesn't add up here.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More people than billionaires are telling you there's a climate issue. Scientists are, normal people are, etc. It's the biggest environmental issue of our lifetimes. And there are some celebrities that are also trying to use their popularity to promote the message to get the government to create a set of rules that will actually impact out much CO2 we're putting into our atmosphere. The right-wing talking heads have found that it's really effective to point at them and say "LOOK! They have big houses! They fly around in private jets! They use more resources that 100 of you normal folks, therefore we shouldn't do anything."

The reality is that they're using more resources than 100 of us normal folks, but there are 100k of us normal folks to each of them so we make a much more significant impact on the climate than they do. And yes, lets make the laws affect them also. But the "they're flying around in jets" talking point is lame. They're going to be flying around in jets no matter what. They're going to have big houses no matter what. So lets make them have lots of solar panels on their big houses or make flying around in private jets more expensive. That's just a reason to make the laws affect them also, it's NOT a reason to do nothing and let the world burn.

[–] MacNCheezus 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but you're putting the cart before the horse there. More people than billionaires are telling us there's a climate issue BECAUSE celebrities are using their clout to promote this issue. And most of these people, including the celebrities, aren't climate scientists either, they just parrot stuff they've heard from people they trust.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you only heard about climate change when celebs like Taylor Swift started promoting it? The writing has been on the wall for decades (from scientists) and we've been hearing about it for that amount of time. If you think that the only reason you know about it is from celebs then apparently they were needed in order to reach you.

[–] MacNCheezus 0 points 9 months ago

Yes because Taylor Swift was the first celebrity to ever promote it.

It’s certainly not like Al Gore once made an entire movie about it or anything.