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Al Franken: Climatologist Michael Mann on How to Talk to Climate Deniers (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 OP
Good Advice, I'm Sure Roy Rolling Oct 2023 #1
Yep... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #2
Why is Franken Not in the Senate? Fresh Water Falling Oct 2023 #3

Roy Rolling

(6,925 posts)
1. Good Advice, I'm Sure
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 06:54 AM
Oct 2023

But convincing climate deniers to be reasonable is just one of the things an unreasonable MAGA finds impossible to do.

Young people “have skin in the game” and understand. Older people, not so much. We’ve been taught to be mindless exploiters and privileged a-holes. That’s the lesson of capitalism guiding moral decisions. Don’t do it.

All of our 2023 problems are financially-based like a Typhoid Mary of a raging epidemic. Greedy capitalists at the top of fossil fuel companies have known for half a century they were destroying the air.

Climate change isn’t about knowledge it’s about curbing the insatiable desires of greedy capitalists using their leverage to exploit every living being for their own profit, mansions, and lifestyle-of-the-rich-and-famous.

Think. Again.

(8,335 posts)
2. Yep...
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 07:15 AM
Oct 2023

...the climate has always changed, and not only 'not this fast', but more importantly never before due to the choices that the human population makes every day.

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