DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools
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Florida’s Department of Education has approved classroom use of videos that spout climate disinformation and distort climate science

Thank you for doing this, but unless we have systemic change, this is just feel-good shit.

Systemic change is going to force the same lifestyle changes anyway.

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Right? It’s like people want to be forced at gunpoint to do the things they know they SHOULD be doing now. What the fuck??

Who says I’m doing nothing? Im just saying you don’t understand human behavior if you think that “we just need to change” is the answer. People are lazy and need incentive to do shit. So systemic implementations are always going to be more effective.

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Oh, I know. It’s not like I intentionally did any of it. I just like OneWheels and never saw the point in owning a 4 wheeled death trap that costs money monthly(insurance), and could easily get my black ass sent to jail or shot. Especially while I was deep in my binge drinking.

I agree that the world does not need “you” to reduce your footprint to zero. But people do have collective power. If everyone reduced their footprint a bit, that would make a dent.

Even better is if everyone realized that the big polluting beasts are fed by us. Everyone withholding just a little money from these corporations makes the graph of their profit go from pointing up to pointing down. And they sit up and take notice at that, even if they are still making billions annually. They are literally a house of cards and we are the bottom layer.

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Nah, any reduction is good, including social encouragement for others to join you in things like going car-free. Plus, outside of the environmental effects, cars are horrifically unsafe things when used en masse, and every one we take off the road makes our neighbors safer.

When you subtract 1 from 1,000,000, you wouldn’t be wrong in saying there is a reduction, but is it significant enough? Or is it just febreezing a giant pile of shit?

“I don’t want to change, everyone else should change”.

Yep that’s not what I’m saying but alright.

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