• exscape@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    “climate change and other left wing topics”… I know that’s basically how it works in some countries, but it’s insane to consider certain scientific facts left wing, and we really shouldn’t support such statements.

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      7 months ago

      Thanks for pointing that out. It’s just so normal to think that way here that they’ve even corrupted me into framing climate change that way. It’s not a left wing topic; it’s a reality.

      I just hope young people who are thinking of voting conservative here keep in mind that those assholes literally don’t believe in climate change and by extension science and facts. That alone should automatically disqualify conservatives from anyone’s consideration.

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      7 months ago

      Politicising climate change was yet another distraction from dealing with it in a cohesive and unified manner. Divide and conquer.

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Yes, in Europe, most political parties, both left and right, have their own climate change mitigation policies, because if they don’t, they risk just not being elected.

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      7 months ago

      The reason it’s overwhelmingly called “climate change” instead of global warming now is because of language change pushed by billionaire foundations. The Koch network specifically focus grouped and created the term change. Whether we want it considered left wing or not, the billionaire backed right has made such statements left wing.

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        7 months ago

        The reason it’s overwhelmingly called “climate change” instead of global warming now is because of language change pushed by billionaire foundations.

        I do think “global warming” struggles to convince some more simple people anyway, unfortunately. Because while the average temperature of the globe is increasing and causing the changes in climate that we’re seeing, I’ve come across far too many comments from people saying things like “global warming must be a myth because it snows more than it used to” and things themselves smarter than all climate scientists combined for that observation.

        Of course, those same people probably think global warming is good because they like their summer holidays so perhaps their opinions shouldn’t matter much either way!

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        7 months ago

        Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn’t intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.

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        7 months ago

        Is this really true?

        Idiots would walk around on cold days saying “see - this global warming stuff is bullshit”.

        Climate change describes the danger much more aptly.