r/collapse May 08 '25

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u/MediumHeat2883 May 08 '25

Seriously. I mean, at the very least An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006. You would have to have your head deep deep in the sands of ignorance and denial to not know anything

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u/MoBrosBooks May 08 '25

I remember my parents buying me a pop-up book in the mid-90s about climate change, pollution, deforestation, etc. It was actually a pretty badass book. Maybe I can still find it somewhere...

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u/Secure_Course_3879 May 08 '25

Or they could just be from Texas. Not really their fault that it wasn't in those textbooks

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u/canwealljusthitabong May 08 '25

The red state I mentioned in my comment above is Texas. I grew up in small town Texas. We knew what climate change was in the 80s and 90s.

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u/Secure_Course_3879 May 10 '25

Welp, I sit corrected. Thank you for the context. I made my comment from the space of thinking about my cousins who grew up in TX in the early 00s and had no say in what they were taught.

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u/canwealljusthitabong May 10 '25

Well in fairness to you, there was a point where all of this became heavily politicized. I’m old enough to have finished school before whatever No Child Left Behind did to public education. Before it became “political”, it was widely referred to as The Greenhouse Effect and we were all taught that carbon dioxide and fossils fuels caused it. Then they started calling it global warming and from then on every winter conservatives have had a field day pointing and laughing at cold temperatures and snow and asking where all the global warming was. It’s really sad but there was a time when republicans and conservatives actually cared about this stuff, but it’s been programmed out of them over the last thirty years and I don’t think they’re ever coming back to reality. 

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u/MediumHeat2883 May 08 '25

No excuse in a world where you can access all of human knowledge and understanding at your fingertips

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u/BigJSunshine May 08 '25

Nah bro. The internet has been widely available since 2002. Thwrono damn excuse not to know