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Scuba
Jul 2013
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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)1. This is the argument I use with climate change deniers.
Okay, climate change is 'fake'. How do you feel about pollution? Is smog good for your children/grandchildren? Would you want them living next to an oil refinery? How about working 8 hours a day on Lower Wacker Drive (for you nonChicagoans, Lower Wacker is an underground road...pretty awful just to drive through)? For the Christianites I'll throw in 'Do you think your God approves of the way we're polluting the air, water, earth?'
They usually shut up at that point.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. I tell them it's embarassing for us to still be using coal....
Then I show them this....
Skip to nearly the end at 4:39.
Kirk orders Warp Factor One and it switches to someone shovelling coal into the engines.
AllINeedIsCoffee
(772 posts)3. K&R. nt
