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The memes of the climate
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Climate science denialism is nothing new. It has been going on for decades. The Greenhouse effect has been known for more than 100 years. There have been urgent public warnings from scientists for more than 40 years. Right now, science warns that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) will break down (link). If we carry on like this, it will be a question of when, not if. This is just one example. Each example should cause immediate global political action. Instead, we're living the meme.
Once again: Posting and liking memes is great, but real change comes from actions. If you are as concerned as we are about climate change, please consider joining or supporting climate activists near you.
My biggest problem these days is the scale of changes that must happen quickly, and the intrinsic resistance or outright hate for the easily known ways we could cut emissions and further oil exploitation - but the stupids won't let us. They won't even consider it. They argue that windmills cause cancer. They want to tax renewable power sources and EVs. In Texas, they pay cryptominers to not cryptomine MILLIONS OF DOLLARS when their shoddy grid starts gagging on texas summers, winters, and well, the rest of the year. It's a hideous distortion of power services, and only one tiny example of places where we could legislate and reduce consumption. Rolling coal, cruise ships, recreational vehicles from RV's to dirt bikes to snowmobiles - if it's not for work, cut it out. We could do this today, we're just too lazy and willing to let the stupids drive the environment to destruction.
You blaming people trapped in a system, for the system, instead of blaming those who create and profit from said system, is you buying in to propaganda exactly like the people you blame, you're just on a different branch of the force feeder (the "I think I'm better than other people for buying a metal straw to drink my starbucks with as I ignore the systemic issues" smelling your own farts branch).
It is you who are lazy (and/or uncomfortable, or scared) to look at the actual cause of the problem, so instead you dismiss people with irrelevant slurs to make yourself feel superior as you do absolutely nothing to address the actual problem
An argument which could have been brought forward in a way which would have been outside the very system you describe. Why resort to personal attacks? Did you feel offended?
As for the question at hand: Do what you can, continue the movement. Ask for better. A part of the problem is that those who can make (bigger) changes have nothing to loose by not changing. Why is that?
Most of us has the ability to change one thing in our life/work which would be better. Let's change that one thing. If everyone here does, it will be thousands of changes.