Posts by chu@climatejustice.social
(DIR) Post #ASAuNenuBeNJoEvY9o by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-01-29T15:36:32Z
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@jalefkowit 兔死狗烹 is a Chinese idiom that means after the rabbits are dead, the dogs get cooked. The dogs give you their loyalty and you still kill them in the end when they are of no use to you. We would be wise to remember this.
(DIR) Post #AWV5BOkQEFLly3uRUW by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-06-08T13:20:14Z
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If you're looking for a villain to blame for this smoke, it's us driving pointlessly large cars, subsidizing fossil fuel extraction, and building houses so large we need two routers to get wifi in the whole place. The villain is us, not some camper who may or may not have been careless with a campfire. Even if there was a camper, it's climate change that created the conditions for this kind of burn. This was well predicted since at least the 90s so don't even pretend we didn't know. We are the bad guys of this story. If we want to fix this, we have to take power away from the .001% and honestly, even if we put it in the hands of the 1%, we would have better outcomes. #ClimateCrisis
(DIR) Post #AWdH81aixMQAxlMruy by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-06-12T15:54:08Z
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@allofmystudentsrunaway @GeraldKutney It's kind of wild to me that someone that dumb even got as far as learning to read and write. I mean how to you even acquire such a basic skill and not understand anything?
(DIR) Post #AWdH83AD6uOvq6yirw by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-06-12T18:13:20Z
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@allofmystudentsrunaway @GeraldKutney I'm doing some research on COVID communication and interviewed a whole lot of people about information intake. I agree with you, the kids give me hope. The under 30s are also more likely to look at information with a critical eye and be skeptical of sources. They were also more likely to perceive bias whereas the older people tended to believe that if it came from a trusted news source (like CNN or CBC) it was not biased. We have entire courses in university dedicated to teaching kids how to spot fake news. I was quite happy to learn that lots of kids in high school get it too. This is probably why the RW want to defund education. Facts have a left wing bias.
(DIR) Post #AXf101VWBGNfZl4tSi by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-07-13T18:56:22Z
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@lowqualityfacts Seeing this makes me wish for a meteor to just end it all now
(DIR) Post #AZPRJBa5VtNw0JgFai by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-09-04T01:25:14Z
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Awwww... Poor entitled driver is upset because she was ticketed for blocking the sidewalk because the car she bought is too big for her itty bitty little 43 year old driveway. Awww. Munchkin.Why can't her parking space grow along with her autobesity entitlements??? Poor pumpkin. https://www.the-sun.com/motors/8982003/ticketed-parking-driveway-door-little-known-law/
(DIR) Post #AaImyw7eOveoBouvho by chu@climatejustice.social
2023-09-30T17:27:17Z
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In conversation w a friend, she was surprised when I said we won't have electricity after social collapse. She asked "why? What happens to electricity?"I had to then explain that infrastructure needs people to maintain and if things fall apart, nobody will keep the generators going or the wires in check. She seemed surprised by this. Is this why people don't seem worried about what's coming? They have no idea???I was trying to hide my shock that I had to explain this to someone who isn't a child. I think I take too much for granted and assume too much of people's ability to be logical.Now her obsession with social issues at the expense of #ClimateCrisis makes sense. I was always wondering how someone on the left would not care about collapse. I have tried to explain before that as much as I share her concerns about the many dire issues that do need dealing with, none of it matters if climate change causes collapse. Then we won't have social housing, or equity, or any of the other things she cares about. (she was even part of a group that protested demanding "affordable gas") Her look of shock finally helped me realize that she has absolutely no idea what #ClimateCollapse means. No idea. I've been arguing with her all these years and she's had no idea. I don't even know what to say. There's no way she's the only one. Lots of well intentioned people say "yes climate is important but....".I am here to tell you that none of those other issues will even exist in the face of climate and social collapse. I don't know if the average person can even image the number of deaths that we are facing when the society we built loses electricity.