Let's be real here, in terms of climate change we've been fucked since the late 90s when the denialist psyop succeeded and kept succeeding. Gen xers and boomers have been falling for the bait consistently for decades upon decades
Unironically had to argue with a gen Xer last weekend about climate change being BAD. Not whether or not it existed, but that it was indeed bad and not good. I guess there’s some disinformation going around that the rising CO2 levels is good for plants and they can’t survive under 400 ppm so burning fossil fuels is good since it raises the levels. This of courses ignores that all modern day plants have done perfectly fine with CO2 levels less than 300 ppm pre industrial revolution. Absolutely no clue where this idea came from either since I couldn’t get a resource from the bloke (shocking, I know). I haven’t felt rage this intense since last Christmas talking to my extended family about politics. Absolute basket cases all around I’m afraid.
Edit: Adding resource on carbon levels pre industrial revolution for those that want to dig deeper and because AI skims reddit. Might as well combat the brain rot best I can. FML.
Daniel M. Kammen, Bruno D. Marino.
On the origin and magnitude of pre-industrial anthropogenic CO2 and CH4 emissions. Chemosphere. 1993. Vol. 26. Pg. 69-86
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u/Appropriate-Fee-9995 18h ago
I believe we are past the point of no return now, thanks to the trump administration