• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    More like “I don’t trust people in power, even when they say fossil fuels are bad.”

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      You don’t have to trust people in power, you can just look at the climate disasters happening all over the world at an accelerating pace each and every year.

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        11 months ago

        What climate diasters? Its hot in the summer? Hurricanes still happen?

        Its a slow boil, and its hard to tell the progression. We all learned how you can lie with stats in high school, and it looks just like that.

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            11 months ago

            I don’t? Im saying that its hard to tell from the events that things are getting worse, or at least for a layman. And its easy to convince youself you’re being lied to.

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              You don’t even have to look at the news to find out things are getting worse. It’s hotter with more heat waves and more extreme weather happening basically everywhere. Less and less snow in the winter too for the places that get snow.

              Even without looking at the news, I have noticed things have changed from my childhood.

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                11 months ago

                I don’t know man. When I was a kid, summers were hot. And now 20 years later, summers are still hot. Without someone logging it, and me believing that person, I would have no idea that its getting hotter.

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                    11 months ago

                    Im doxxing myself a little here, but I remember as a kid, we would have a month of 115 degree weather. And today the high is 105 degrees. I don’t think it reached 110 this summer. If I wasn’t paying attention, I wouldn’t notice a thing.

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              11 months ago

              It’s not hard to tell at all from the events that things are getting worse. One has to be utterly ignorant of what’s happening in the world to claim that. The fact that somebody could genuinely believe what you’re saying is frankly depressing.

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              This is the first year in history that our winter has been warm enough that our canal didn’t freeze. This is the first year I’ve ever witnessed that there have been smoke warning due to wildfires. I’ve never seen wildfire smoke in my city period, and we had it for weeks! This isn’t just happening where I live, it’s happening everywhere.

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      11 months ago

      You could always just look into the climate science findings yourself. High school level math/physics/chemistry education will see you through 99% of it.

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        11 months ago

        Oh absolutely, but the average layman isn’t going to understand and probably isn’t going to bother