• Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    7 months ago

    Perhaps someone should tell this dickhead about all of the land the US will lose due to carbon emissions from coal power. Or maybe mention the continuing increase in business insurance due to the same thing. If we are going to point out the adverse effects of solar we should point out the adverse affects of coal.

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    7 months ago

    This would be a great talking point in a world where we didn’t invent ways to store power, and that night wasn’t a thing.

    Unfortunately he lives in this one where gets to look like an idiot.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Wind energy? Hydro energy? Nuclear energy? There’s like more ways to get energy.

    I also don’t know if this guy is pointing out that the sun gives us so much energy, so we should use it more or that the sun could be covered sometimes rendering it useless.

  • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    had to look this idiot up and to the surprise of nobody… he’s a right wing fossil fuel shill.

    "…And now they are going after agriculture and of course, denim, which is cotton. Cotton also is deeply rooted in Jim Crow and racism, so that’s another reason to get rid of cotton. But also they want to get rid of cotton in denim because everything causes climate change until they just eliminate people writ large. And then there’ll be no more climate change when we’re all dead, which we may be from the eclipse in a couple of hours. Who knows? When we’re all dead, there’ll be no more climate worries.”

    this is the sewerage that seems to flow from his brain.

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      7 months ago

      The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct but the people saying “nah oil belongs in the ocean” have our best interest in mind? Well I fully believe him.

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        7 months ago

        The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct

        See this is a little bit of a mischaracterization - the Earth will likely recover from climate change. The human race are the sensitive species here.

        We need to rethink our rhetoric to make it clear slowing climate change is for the benefit of humans, not “the earth”

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          7 months ago

          You’re right I forget people don’t realize destroying the planet is like burning your own house down but your house will be fine and you’ll die.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    But think how much productivity was lost due to all the workers stopping to watch the eclipse! That easily set us back ten years.