• Especially_the_lies@startrek.websiteEnglish
    60·
    11 months ago

    It’s likely because the fixes all would impinge on the rights of his constituents–and by that I mean, the rights of his major corporate donors to make money.

    • shiveyarbles@beehaw.orgEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      The sick thing is most donors have so much hoarded wealth their entire lineage will never spend it l… But it’s worth letting the earth burn to accumulate more.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    391·
    11 months ago

    What’s so hard to understand about this? There is a very popular meme that explains this person’s perspective, it has a dog having a cup of coffee in a burning room saying “this is fine”

    • DrQuint@lemm.ee
      141·
      11 months ago

      Reminder that the comic ends with the dog stressfully trying to put out the fire while whining that there was no reason to let it go that far.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
      617·
      11 months ago

      Some of us think human extinction would ultimately be for the best, even for humans. There is no civilized future; it’s exploitation, violence and horror all the way to the end. The faster the end comes the less of all that there will be. Humanity is not suited for interstellar permanence, we are defective.

          • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
            3·
            11 months ago

            True, but neither regular pork nor long pork should be undercooked either. That’s how you get trichinosis…

      • jroid8@lemmy.world
        7·
        11 months ago

        Humans won’t go extinct easily, for how many things we lived through and how many conditions we coped with, I don’t think nither climate change nor a third world war is enough for our extinction. LEMMiNO has an amazing video on this I recommend checking it out to see what I mean. Also u ok bro?

      • bigwag1@lemmy.ml
        21·
        11 months ago

        To live is to suffer. Study. You’re almost there. The defect is intentional. Consoling the defect is enlightenment.

      • aeternum@kbin.social
        48·
        11 months ago

        I agree. I’m actually hoping for human extinction. We’re a cancer on the earth. If bees went extinct, the natural world would collapse. If ants went extinct, again, the natural world would collapse. If humans went extinct? Well, not much would happen except that the natural world would achieve equilibrium again.

        • jroid8@lemmy.world
          62·
          11 months ago

          I don’t understand how anyone can say a statement as heartless as “humans are cancer”, but I shouldn’t be surprised because it’s within our nature to oversimplify, categorize, and put good and evil label on things. But the truth is that you can’t put a label on humans because we are too diverse for that. For as cruel and heartless humans can be, we can also be kind and forgiving. There are millions who dedicated their lives in helping others, and millions of forest rangers defending what you label as good. You know that life has existed on earth for 3 billion years, so what good did it do exactly? Creatures born and died one after the other and what good did they ever do? Also life wasn’t always stable on earth, there where 5 mass extincttions, and 5 ice ages long before we industrialized. It’s been a few hundred years at most since we’ve been a “cancer” to earth. If humans where gone things will continue as normal, stars shine until they fade without anyone to gaze at their beauty. Universe will turn dark without anything happening. I don’t think things will stay like this. Humans where hunter gatherers for ~288000 years but we grew out of it and learned to do better. I think the same will be true for war and injustice. We will grow out of these childish actions one day.

  • ayyndrew@lemm.ee
    301·
    11 months ago

    “Climate change is real, and it’s a good thing. I hate winter” - him, probably

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      161·
      11 months ago

      Never forget that a moron Republican senator brought a handful of snow onto the Congress floor to prove climate change was a hoax!

      If the GOP senators are this moronic… Just imagine the idiots voting for them… shudder

    • Objectionist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      remember: climate change ain’t just not fake, it also makes summers fucking unbearable and average winters a likely cause of frostbite! hooray!

      we’re all gonna die of our own stupidity in the next couple centuries… lest we do anything about it

  • Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    I mean, at one level it’s more logically valid to say we shouldn’t bother doing anything to compare combat climate change than saying climate change doesn’t exist.

    It’s a weird level though.

    • ddkman@lemm.ee
      51·
      11 months ago

      To be fair, they never said that. Saying that efforts right now are awfully misguided and completely incompetent efforts to sell even more product, and increase consuption EVEN more, such as EV-s and so on, is not climate change denial…

  • JackLSauce@lemmy.world
    152·
    11 months ago

    This is easily understandable even without cynicism

    If one acknowledge a problem and feel 6 of 10 proposed solutions aren’t worth the cost, they’ve opposed a majority of solutions

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    11 months ago

    Same as when you have a cavity but you don’t go to the dentist because you don’t have health insurance and it costs too much and it doesn’t hurt that much right now.

  • ChapolinColoradoNZ@lemmy.world
    13·
    11 months ago

    Let’s put it this way, where I live we separate our rubbish between general, recyclable and glass but our council only recycles the glass and dumps the rest in the landfill with the general rubbish…

    We see a lot of “do-gooders” out there pretending to do something while achieving the exact opposite. An example: most flagship smartphones now come without a charger but if you want the latest wireless charging tech they’re pushing or even the latest fast charging, you’re surely going to buy that extra on the same purchase. Now you have two separate devices that used to share the same package now generating twice the amount of rubbish. It makes no sense. These same smartphones now have glued on batteries that can’t easily be removed, so both phones and batteries end up in the same bin, where the phones themselves should be going to a separate facility to extract the rate matels it has.

    We the simpletons think that the little we do helps but reality is very different…