Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

[Pale Rider]

I didn't see another catch-all thread for climate change, so here's mine. Here's Bill Nye to tell us how fucked we are (again)...

 

[NovaSaber]

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/the-annihilation-of-florida-an-overlooked-national-tragedy

 

[Nevermore]

Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

 

[Spin-Out]

Every ******* day I grow more and more convinced that we need to violently and mercilessly overthrow the government and throw every last ratfucker who voted for this jive into jail for the rest of their worthless lives.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://gizmodo.com/legislation-boycott-fossil-fuels-texas-1849002428

The Texas law that seeks to stop companies from being mean to fossil fuels is getting popular—even if its execution and implications are still murky. States across the country are looking at adopting similar bills to one passed in Texas that forbids the state from doing business with any institutions that “boycott” fossil fuels.

The original bill was passed last year, but its enforcement mechanisms are just now coming into play. The bill instructs the Texas comptroller to create a list of businesses that “boycott” fossil fuels. It’s unclear what exactly qualifies a “boycott” or how the state plans on cutting ties with financial institutions, banks, and other companies it deems aren’t being nice enough to Big Oil. The bill was modeled after a separate bill that banned the state from doing business with any entity that did not support Israel; that law has been blocked by judges twice since its passage in 2017.

 

[Pocket]

I don't know if economics even has a word for "government being so in bed with specific corporations that it outright forces you to buy from them", but we've reached that point.

 

[Dekafox]

Cyberpunk?

 

[Ungnome]

Corporatocracy.

 

[KidTDragon]

Seems like the Germans should've come up with a good word by now.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

"American."

 

[Nevermore]

Late stage capitalism.

And yes, it was first coined by a German.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1536470234315513857

 

[NovaSaber]

Does she not know that people die in heat waves too?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Have facts ever mattered to her?

 

[Ungnome]

Frankly, I don't think she cares if people die in heat waves. She didn't care that people were dying of COVID, after all.

 

[wonko the sane?]

They don't care who dies, so long as they get what they want. And they WANT the ability to torture people in every way imaginable until they die.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1540685439509508097

Not the Onion:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539800471241736194

 

[Anonymous X]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546465606240817152

It shouldn’t be 32 degrees in England basically ever. 20 degrees used to be considered an abnormally hot summer day here relatively recently. This is not good.

 

[KidTDragon]

Not the Onion:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539800471241736194

If that's what it takes to get people to take climate change seriously, so be it.

 

[Nevermore]

If that's what it takes to get people to take climate change seriously, so be it.

Nah, blame the EU instead.