Why?
And I don’t mean this as a rhetorical question. Can anyone please actually explain to me in a nuanced way why the fuck people want to go out of their way to pretend something very real doesn’t exist at all?
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Why?
And I don’t mean this as a rhetorical question. Can anyone please actually explain to me in a nuanced way why the fuck people want to go out of their way to pretend something very real doesn’t exist at all?
big oil is trying to groom our children into selling their futures
The marketing money comes from the a couple of billionaires who made their money in fracking.
Once you get that, you infiltrate a bunch of social trust networks, and get the people who are trusted by a lot of people to lie. Some will do it for approval, some for money. Then you push a bunch of petromasculinity to get people to think that it's a core part of their identity, so they'll fight tooth and nail to keep on burning stuff.
Stop electing monsters to office!😡
Once again, the votes are rigged (gerrymandered). It's some of the worst in the country on top of a conservative stronghold.
More of a uniparty state than anything else, really.
we need to use economic pressure to force small red states to merge with one another. cut off all federal funding, boycotts, etc.