We canβt fix the environment now, we have to fix the man made economic disaster that happens every 5-10 years
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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I usually just assume people around me are left leaning and progressive.
I went to London to visit the satellite office and one of the top guys there was having a rant against vegans. I chimed in a bit and said, "well, you can say what you want but vegans are at least doing good for the environment".
The guy was like, "I don't believe that"
I thought he was joking, so I said, "haha what, you don't believe in climate change?"
I should have never said that. Ten minutes of him furiously ranting about nonsense.
I got great quotes such as: "you know what climate change is? it's when seasons change" and also "we should be eating more animals because it increases the carbon in the world and is good for us".
Fucking hell. When I got back to the Canadian office and told my coworkers about him, the others were telling me how much of a prick he was -- and they didn't know anything about the climate change denial shit he was into either.
Wait, you're saying someone who is confidently incorrect happens to be an asshole? Shocking!
You can easily bitch about vegans and not be a climate change denialist.
Things seem to be going just fine
I would simply be in the top 1%
I found it funny, in a morbid way, when the then conservative Australian Prime Minister announced 4 floods in Queensland each only weeks apart. Iβm paraphrasing here since I canβt be bothered looking up the numbers. The first was once in 500 years, the next; once in a century, then one in 50 years and then once in a decade. The timelines just kept getting shorter! Eventually theyβd be once a week floods, then once a day!! But itβs totally normal and definitely not climate change.
Hard to believe that some people still take morons like that seriously. Youβd really have to be in a state of complete denial to look at the 4th flood, listen to the PM and think βboy am I glad the Greeny tree huggers arenβt in charge.β
some people still take morons like that seriously.
The morons who vote for them.
We don't need to worry or change anything because science will come up with a magic solution any day now we pinky promise.
The fucked up part is: Science has already come up with a magical solution, plenty in fact; we're just failing to implement them. Renewables, and especially solar, are developing at an incredible pace and in a better world would already be the main source of energy worldwide. The only technology missing from this equation is the guillotine.
"~~science~~ AI"
My conspiracy theory is that billionaires like Musk and Gates believe in climate change but want it to happen because it will primarily genocide black Africans and the billionaires will not suffer from it.
it will primarily genocide ~~black Africans~~ the poor and the billionaires will not suffer from it.
There, FTFY
Musk doing Roman salutes and Gates focussing on birth preventions in Africa instead of feeding the poor seems a bit too coincidental to me.
They all have bunkers in New Zealand, in their minds, if it gets bad enough, it'll simply mean they have to go live in compounds/bunkers near each other, and come drink each other's wine all day. Many folks have pointed out how this will not work - the people who secure them, who fly the helicopters and jets, who make the food and carry the guns - they're human beings too, and at the very last minute, they will act in their own best interests. So that seat on a jet for Bill Gates might just end up being filled by the pilot's wife instead.
But they don't care, magical thinking run amok.
I think the 0.1%'s racism comes from the lack of action rather than a deliberate action. They know climate change is real, they know it's accelerating. They know their actions are accelerating it and that it will mean suffering for an uncountable number of people. What they're betting on is that by extracting as much wealth as quickly as possible they can protect themselves and their loved ones from the worst of it for as long as possible. If a lot of people need to suffer to make that happen, that's a sacrifice they're willing to make.
It's just that all the systems that the 0.1% use to accumulate their wealth and power are also racist systems. Which they are totally happy to take the power and money but aren't willing to do more than a token demonstration against the system that makes them. Cause that would put themselves at risk of losing something, and that is a thought the super rich cannot handle.
The last panel should read "the highest profits on record" /s
"To fix it you need to invest money and buy more stuff." Source: Trust me bro.
Partially true
But that stuff is railroads canals aerostats. Machines to recycle cars and jets. Guns to exterminate the wealthy. Local artisnal manufacturing.
I live in SWEDEN and its 10C(50f) in the middle of december. How the fuck does that even work? This is seriously wrong.
Nowadays: AGI will come up with a solution.
"42" the machine said, after long deliberation.
The crowd gasped.
"You would need to have begun mitigations to prevent catastrophic consequences 42 years ago"
The crowd's face fell.
It's not even about fixing it. It's about stopping to increase the damage we do until 2050 (or 2060).
This is a twit of a comic. Why include the twitter guy? Did he make the comic?
Nope, I just found it like this.