TheWholeTruthXX π¨ β€οΈ
Anyone else notice how the climate-related deaths are being normalized exactly like the covid deaths?
1000 die of heat stroke at Mecca, heat dome killing seniors in North America.
It's becoming like everything is traffic accidents - deaths we accept as a random inevitable part of our environment but that we directly cause.
Death by contagious airborne vascular infection, death by heat, death by flooding, death by drought, all just part of the landscape now. Normal as sunshine.
God's will.
OldAndCranky
@adwright @cowvin I am utterly astounded to be 73 (well, on Saturday).
OldAndCranky
@adwright @cowvin When i was a child I assumed I would never grow up due to the expected nuclear holocaust. I'm used to impending doom.
TheWholeTruthXX π¨ β€οΈ
I never thought they'd go full doomsday growing up, though as history teaches us, that had elements of luck to it such that there's gotta be timelines where they did, but I'll be honest I have kinda been amazed someone somewhere hasn't blown off a nuke being morons so a merciful Providence be thanked for the overtime work there.
I mean as a species we sure do produce some thickies, esp. lately, and give them access to atomic weaponry, so miracles are likely involved. :)
TheWholeTruthXX π¨ β€οΈ
Trouble is it's in the best interests of the monied to keep everything in play as-is to keep the gravy train rolling as long as possible while they build compounds and bunkers and mega-yacht fleets.
Kind of like playing soothing music to animals headed to slaughter, if you'll forgive the darker imagery.
People are normalizing insane amounts of BS already, I attended a tech gathering at the height of the forest fires, air choking with yellow fog of burned houses; they said nothing.
cowvin
@adwright This is how the world works. If we don't do enough to save ourselves, people will die.
The whole notion of saving the environment is not that appealing to people. That's why people should be communicating the idea as saving people instead.
For example, people who don't want to stop climate change are "pro-death" and those who want to stop climate change are "pro-life."
TheWholeTruthXX π¨ β€οΈ
Well, happy happys.
I'm 64 and amazed how little that means. Zero of the social norms for the age apply to me; I'm not retired nor can I foresee that even ever being a possibility. I didn't skew right politically in my old age, though apparently a number of my contemporaries did, etc.
I dunno, don't you think we define ourselves in whatever you wanna call this stage? It seems to reveal peoples true selves like the New Yorkers in original Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
OldAndCranky
@adwright @cowvin I have no idea what to call this stage. I'm kind of in shock. I didn't skew right, and, actually, none of my friends did either! I have gotten much more cynical - but then earlier this year I decided to ignore politics. I get to because I'm old. I'm old. That's what I call this stage- Old.
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