I’m worried this will only fuel the climate change deniers.
My most recent one said: “It isn’t proven that it will affect us humans negatively”. Dude we’re in the 6th mass extinction… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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It will probably go the way COVID deniers did. If you do too much and prevent it altogether, people won't believe you or say you overreacted. If you don't do enough, people will complain that you're not doing your job.
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fuel the climate change deniers
they will always do that anyway, otherwise they wouldnt still be deniers.
we can always punch them in the face.
Maybe, like COVID, the deniers will die first. Then the rest of us can get on with saving our asses.
Unfortunately, that's not generally the case. Everyone is affected, in particular also the ecosystems that support our lives.
And we're seeing disproportionate effects in poorer countries, because those cannot afford AC, isolated housing or rebuilding from the increased flood, storms, forest fires etc. that are already taking place.
There is some things one can do when recognizing the changing climate, like:
- selling your beachfront property,
- moving into colder regions,
- selecting crops that can deal with the harsher weather,
- ensuring a flood can seep away in your city,
- planting trees to provide shade + the cooling effect of evaporation + hindrance for storms.
But yeah, it's still going to be a wild ride for everyone.
Just like COVID, it's going to be poor people who will die first/are already dying
JFC DON'T tell them! They'll start to get lazy and relapse.
The problem with that is that a lot of green technology is of a big investment in the beginning, but cheaper to operate type. So once you have them, it is hard for fossil fuels to compete. We also do not have low fossil fuel prices right now. Both oil and gas are rather expensive and coal can not compete with gas in most places. More so green technologies also have a lobby. So you have the fossil fuel industry in decline, which means less money for lobbying. The laws and systems to replace them are in working already. The simple truth is that passing laws is much harder then to prevent a law from being passed. Obviously the fossil fuel industry has already failed to do the later in many places.
This is one of the reasons we currently see a lot of far right groups poping up everywhere. Fossil fuel has to rewrite the laws. Centrists do not want to do anything and leftists are for the most part for more anti fossil fuel laws. So the far right is their only hope to grow the fossil fuel industry.