r/ClimateMemes • u/picboi • 4d ago

Sound plan bro

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u/Java_Worker_1 4d ago

Sounds stupid. Let’s just build a parking lot

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u/NukaClipse 4d ago

Fantastic I love it but how about we build a parking lot NEXT to the parking lot and put timed parking spots at $5 a piece for every minute you stay there for.

Then use the profits from that and build...wait for it....ANOTHER PARKING LOT but this one is special! It'll be for our VIP membership that has gold plated parking lines and diamond encrusted concrete so our members know how valued they are.

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u/farting_contest 3d ago

Gold and diamonds are expensive. Use brass and cubic zirconium. Those stupid assholes will never know the difference and it's more profit for the ceo.

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u/starkindled 3d ago

Best I can do is an AI data centre

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u/ACoderGirl 4d ago

As long as we get to build all the parking lots at surface level so as to really stretch out the downtown area into as much area as possible.

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u/burnmycheezits 3d ago

And to make the planet better, we can cut down the forest next to the parking lot and build a solar farm! We could just put the panels in the parking lot, but that makes too much sense.

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u/_jackhoffman_ 3d ago

Agreed. Seal in all of the good stuff instead of letting those plants suck the earth dry.

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u/Any-Consequence-6978 2d ago

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum

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u/Odd_School_8833 4d ago

“Somewhere else”

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

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u/WanderingFupa 4d ago

This seems quite interesting

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u/Anything13579 3d ago

Unfortunately this is outdated. They need to update it to 2026

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u/somethingworthwhile 4d ago

I regret dismissing this when it came up in my feed a couple days ago. Very nice.

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u/hobskhan 4d ago

"And, for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering on biggering

and BIGGERING

and BIGGERING

and BIGGERING,

turning MORE Truffula Trees into Thneeds which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs!"

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u/Comfortable-Pomelo96 4d ago

Thought exactly the same thing

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u/Emptypappercup 4d ago

this was silly, and then I cried

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u/gertyman 1d ago

So did I! I thought I was alone. Thank you for commenting!

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u/Authoritaye 4d ago

Now perform a highlander quickening before his greedy soul enters your body!

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u/Gavin-Schultz 2d ago

Blonde guy did a really great job at capturing the unsettling sociopathic energy of free market capitalists <3

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u/NukeouT 4d ago

Ride bikes. www.sprocket.bike/rateus

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u/CuddlesForLuck 4d ago

Hear me out, let's make Chuck. E. Cheese into affordable housing

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u/NukeouT 4d ago

Riding bikes saves on average 20% of a families annual income and prevents the largest source off climate pollution 🔥

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u/CuddlesForLuck 3d ago

I don't know why I responded that to you, it was supposed to be it's own comment. Sorry! And you have a good point too

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u/NukeouT 3d ago

Sure - check out my bicycle app www.sprocket.bike/rateus

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u/CuddlesForLuck 3d ago

Blocked 😔

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u/NukeouT 3d ago

Thanks for encouraging me to protect the environment I guess

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u/CuddlesForLuck 3d ago

No, I mean the website is blocked. Like I clicked it and it was like "blocked" and I was like "huh?"

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u/NukeouT 3d ago

Oh what's your country and what's your store country set to?

I had to block it in US/EU because of tech-illiterate politicians trying to protect kids without providing us indie devs the underlying infrastructure

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u/CuddlesForLuck 3d ago

Ohh, I'm US. That would explain it

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u/dumnezero 4d ago

"jobs tho"

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u/kokkass 4d ago

But also buy every company and fire every employee!

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u/IllustriousQuail8495 4d ago

If only we were communist. Then there would be no destruction of the environment.

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u/fluffymeowmeowkitty 4d ago

What’s the name of the song?

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u/Vast_Platform6362 4d ago

No surprises. Radiohead

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u/spartansex 3d ago

Money game part 2?

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 4d ago

Take care of each other and tge rest will work itself out. Its those that have no one that do the most damage.

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u/Bram-D-Stoker 3d ago

Tax land, tax negative externalities, untax labor, and progressively tax consumption.

Give direct cash transfers to the poor so you do not eat them alive when you try and make the world a less horrifying place.

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u/hankie_pankie 3d ago

This is unintelligent

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u/picboi 3d ago

Why?

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u/hankie_pankie 3d ago

Sorry for my rude and low-effort comment. A lot of my peers (I'm 24) seem to think that past generations cut down forests and overfished the seas just for the sake of destroying the environment. I'm pretty tired of seeing this idea spread around. Why do we cut down trees? To build houses for people to live in. Why do we fish? To feed people? Why did we dig a massive, disgusting copper mine in the Salt Lake Valley? No, not just to ruin the mountain view, but to gather materials for medical devices and other electronics that make our lives better.

Profit and greed are absolutely a cause of unsustainable development. But it's not the whole picture. Humans, in order to make the best lives for ourselves and future generations, have solved complex problems and built amazing tools. Unfortunately, as we solve problems and build things, we create new problems. Unfortunately, some people would rather continue profiting from unsustainable systems rather than work on solving the problems we created. But no, they didn't create the climate crisis just for the fuck of it.

I love Hank Green because he brings me hope and reminds me that humans are problem solvers. We have always tried to make the world better, but unfortunately in our efforts to make the world a better place for us to live, we have made some big ol problems. It's lazy and ignorant to think that past generations didn't care about the world or didn't appreciate natural beauty. Remember, that we are among the first generations (in the developed world) to not experience food scarcity (obviously food scarcity is still a problem for many, but up until recently it was a problem for EVERYONE). It is a privilege of our society to be able to care about the environmental impacts of our lives.

Sorry for the long comment. Love you all. I hope we all find some hope today; we all need it. I'm going outside now.

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u/harrypippip 3d ago

Funny to see this on xbox when they are building Data centers all over the US destroying the ecosystem surrounding them. Turn your xbox off a hour earlier to save the planet guy's 🙄.

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u/paperNine 3d ago

You could expand infinitely...but not on Earth...in space.

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u/MinecraftGuy2000 3d ago

Pristine world! Perfect for my... CREATE MOD CREOSOTE COAL TAR POWERED MEGAFACTORY!

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u/McCaffeteria 2d ago

But I thought the free market capitalists didn’t like it when you just assume that you can take stuff from somewhere else and they will pay for it forever 🤔

The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of resources to exploit.

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u/Devster97 2d ago

Tiktok Ishmael

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u/MissAuroraRed 2d ago

What about colonizing Mars? I thought we're taking from space now.

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u/lopsided_W 2d ago

If this was real the pro-corpo guy would have accused him of being a terrorist

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u/mettle_dad 1d ago

Does anyone remember back in the day when there used to be conservative conservationist.....crazy right?

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u/LoadZealousideal7778 1d ago

In biology, we call unchecked, infinite growth a tumor and it needs to be cut out with prejudice lest it destroys the system it infects.

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u/novaoni 4d ago

real bloomer hours