WSJ had an Opinion piece out today about how "The Left" is still trying to make people panic about climate change. These fucking people.
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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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Infuriating, but not surprising. They're convinced the consequences of it are only going to hit poor and non-white people in the global south, and they don't see them suffering and dying en masse as anything worth panicking about because they're genocidal shitheads.
Those damn liberals, making people go outside.
What passes me off the most is we went from "climate change is not real" to "there's nothing we can do to stop it" real quick. For fuck sake, what do we need to do to get someone to take this shit seriously enough to do something meaningful.
And dont say voting, because while that may be the best thing to do it doesn't do it quick enough.
Start organizing your community! Fight against minimum parking requirements and single family zoning, protest against expanding or creating roads for cars instead of people, organize to make utilities like electricity municipal, fight against plastic-bag-ban bans, pressure your local government to make the neighborhood walkable, overrun a coal plant to shut it down, lobby the city to ban the installation of gas lines in new homes, organize a climate protest in front of the mayor's office, etc.
It all starts locally and builds up from there. That's how we see change, from the bottom to the top. A popular chant on picket lines is "I believe that we will win". We will win. We have to win. And we don't win unless we fight, because when we fight, we win.
overrun a coal plant to shut it down
I love how you dropped this unfathomably based suggestion in a list of lame and ineffective ideas. I pick this one because it seems easier than dealing with the government.
Can't rule out the fun options 😉
Nothing mother nature isn't willing to do herself.
get someone to take this shit seriously enough to do something meaningful
Something meaningful might affect them, which is unacceptable, cuz this is 'Merica, which means they do what they want, fuck everyone else around them and even the entire planet!
I feel like the best course of action is only worth it to pursue if you don't care about things like "having an intact national energy grid".
Reminder: If you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change.
As long as conservatives have any say in the matter, climate change can never be addressed. Conservatives must be marginalized or we will suffer increasingly deadly consequences.
Conservatives (including neo-liberals) only serve corporations and will gleefully kill us all with their greed and profound unintelligence.
Do your part by disowning conservatives in your daily life. It is never appropriate to do business or keep relationships with conservatives.
Yes because deepening the divide between political groups is the way to go.
Liberals: I'm better than you because I believe...
Conservatives: No, I'm better than you because I believe this...
And you know what? Nothing gets done and we're stuck in an ever worsening situation. I'd be happy to discuss solutions.
Man it's so depressing :/
59 percent of women said that climate change is currently causing a serious impact, compared to 49 percent of men.
Climate change denial isn't an issue with reason, it's more of a culture war. Part of the problem here is clearly toxic masculinity.
Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 of the 1,285 people surveyed
Or
Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 people surveyed
Those are much more honest titles. I refuse to support media outlets that use tactics like this and I'll call it out every time.