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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Global warming having a giant effect now.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My father in law is in complete denial. According to him they moved all the measurement equipment so that it favours "the Agenda" and gives wrong readings. He also claimes CO2 isnt a greenhouse gas. Sigh...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

What makes people become that dumb?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

fear of having lived your life entirely wrong and being too old to accept responsibility in changing it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Living in their own reality and being drip fed propaganda constantly

[–] atzanteol 21 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acknowledging the truth means accepting that we're fucked, that even if we weren't individually responsible (maybe) we are still going to have to deal with the ramifications... And that's scary. It's far more comforting for there to be a secret cabal controlling everything and that really life is gonna be ok and you don't have to change anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In their fairy tale, inaction may even be the moral choice, because any reaction would be playing right into the secret cabal's evil plans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Propoganda baybeeee

Decades of it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've spent years working at a fossil-fuel-adjacent company, and I've noticed that even some intelligent people (consciously or unconsciously) avoid any information that that might make them think they may not being living a perfectly moral life, or information where the obvious solution goes against their "values" (pro-business, free market). They also grasp for any information that affirms their values and lifestyle, no matter how easily discredited the source.

It's kinda worrying that it always seems to result in Nazi-like conspiracy theories like "the Agenda," "Elites," "groomers," "cultural marxism," etc.

[–] Grandwolf319 5 points 1 year ago

It’s not being dumb, it’s being that stubborn.

If they hadn’t “picked a side” already, they would be very easy to convince.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What like they moved the sensors closer to the sun?