pErvinalia wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:48 am
Do you believe in climate change?
I don't 'believe in' very well. When I find myself doing it, I get very suspicious, so no, I don't.
I also read, from a dead science writer, that the climate was going to change if we didn't do everything in humanities power to fix it. It would also change if we DID do everything.
I believe the climate changes, and is changing. Of course.
But that's not what that means, is it? It's a loaded-with-assumptions kind of phrase, and if we ditched it for this discussion, we would probably be better off.
Do you think that it, along with mass extinction, is a major threat to our existence?
With our recent technological advances, climate is MUCH lower on the list than it ever has been. We are now masters of what will be called 'The Glass Age', and we can tool around in our underpants from far beneath the ocean surface, to far above the highest mountain. Often while shitposting on the internet.
We have bigger threats than climate, probably.
What do you actually believe? Or can you only poo poo what everyone else believes?
I believe that people love to jump on some vague dogshit phrase like 'climate change', and use it to highlight their personal cause. This means it's mostly bullshit, in the 'marketing wank' sense of the word.
When it comes to specifics, fuck globalism. Here is one example where democracy just doesn't fucking fit, and neither do global concerns.
Salt River First Nation has some resources, in the form of water. Some distant ass-hat wants to make a hydro-dam out of it, flood a bunch of land they don't care about, and generate power which will likely help someone else far away.
The locals don't want it (with a helpful smattering of those who do). Is the global concern for renewable energy going to decide this? Or a respect for the traditional lands of a small group of North Americans who are easy to ignore?
We have a bunch of actors advocating for Climate Change Action
TM, too. That makes me support the idea less. Those folks are paid to be professionally charming, convincing and believable. They charge HIGH AS FUCK prices for their services, and are probably just as honest as most other humans, but not as easy to spot when they are full of shit.
What specifically is it you think I have wrong? More to the point, what specific issue do you want to know my opinion about? Carbon tax - no. Best Democrat US candidate - Bernie Sanders would have it if he defended himself against Clinton, but he didn't (I think) so Yang...Best Republican Candidate? Someone other than Trump, but I LOVE that Trump will get in. He doesn't promote hate, but he SURE reveals it. People seem to let their guard down and say what they REALLY think around him. It helped me sever most of my trust in media and political commentators. It's hilarious how often people embarrass themselves when talking about or to him. It's like they are trying to fight a drunken boxer.
