• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    8 hours ago

    Not in the least bit concerned.

    I knew we didn’t have a shot in the dark in 2007. You can’t be disappointed in something that hopeless.

    Humans react after the fact. Leaded gas and Asbestos were warned against too. Shame.

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    10 hours ago

    Sure journalist share some blame but it’s the republicans that are really to blame. Fucking coal rollers should be publicly and brutally executed!

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    Journalists aren’t to blame… There’s plenty that have written about climate threats because there’s been a lot of Science saying it is for years. It’s the Editors and Media owner that censor those stories that are (partly) to blame.

    Extrapolating from there, who influences the Media Owners/Editors? Whomever gives them money - Most likely it’s advertisers, but it’s also rich assholes who buy up Media outlets to control them.

    Beyond that, we can also point the finger at Government - They permit these changes of ownership and often exert their own influence.

    And, if you want to go full circle, we the population choose what the watch and read, and what we believe.

    In short, it’s a societal problem because at the end of the day, we’ve chosen a world where Money is key measurement of how society is doing.

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      Yes, trace it back and the problem is selfish billionaires, as ever. Journalists operate within a media culture that does not prioritize the actual threats to humanity because to do so would inconvenience a few very rich people.

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        By inconvenience, I assume you mean the magnitude of their bank account and/or stock portfolio…

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    Consider the words of my MAGA father:

    1. He’s not concerned because he won’t live long enough to see everything turn to shit (jokes on him, it’s already happening).

    2. When asked about his children and grandchildren who will have to live through it: “Do you believe in God? If you believe in God, nothing matters because you’ll go to heaven when you die.”

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      If you believe in God, nothing matters because you’ll go to heaven when you die.

      That’s a very not-smart interpretation of Christianity. (I assume Christian because old MAGA man; sorry if I’m wrong.) Have you tried asking him why Jesus ever bothered to do anything instead of just staying in bed, or why he didn’t just tell his followers to sit on their butts and wait?

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        There’s no question that he thinks he’s Christian. I did not go deeper into it in this conversation, since his “fuck you, I got mine” attitude was specifically directed at me and my children. I was a bit too angry to respond rationally.

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    Am I concerned? Yes. Enough so that I am doing what I can help. From driving less, recycling, voting for those who actually care, get others to do the same, etc. Am I afraid? No, I’m not living in fear because I know shit is a mess. That is not a healthy state to perpetually be in. I do what I can.

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    Anthony Leiserowitz, the executive director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, said Yale’s latest survey found that only 29 percent of Americans are “very worried” about climate change—a remarkably low number, considering that climate change is already killing people and devastating communities around the world and threatens much worse if left unchecked. “I constantly make the point that only 29 percent are very worried, when it should be 100 percent,” Leiserowitz told Covering Climate Now. “This reflects [climate change’s] lack of salience for most Americans. There are many who are not deniers, but do not adequately understand the risks, that the impacts are here and now, and the urgency of action.” These numbers also shed light on The 89 Percent Project that CCNow and dozens of news outlets have been reporting this year. The project is grounded in a cluster of scientific studies finding that 80 to 89 percent of the world’s people want governments to “do more” about climate change.

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      Talk to any rando in my community and they’d call you a fool for being concerned.

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    12 hours ago

    Lmfao. Americans? The whole world. Ffs, not everything is “americas” fault.

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      This article is about a poll of Americans. It’s not required to do a poll of everyone else in the world first, and it doesn’t imply anything about people elsewhere. At no point does it say that everything is America’s fault. It’s just stating the poll’s findings about Americans.