I have expelled them so I do not know.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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Don’t know any anymore. I am a passionate debater and educator on climate science so I either convince them or they distance themselves from me.
They would rather make up for lies than admit they are wrong
I feel like I don't hear from them much anymore. Maybe it's because I've managed to finally cut all of them out of my life. Or maybe it's because they've realized that even the people who do accept that climate change is real still aren't going to do anything about it because even the softest, most hands-off forms of mitigation would be too disruptive to capitalism.
They move the goalposts.
"It's going to be a problem in Africa"
"It's going to be a problem in 50 years"
"It's futile to do anything unless China stops polluting "
"Electric cars pollute more than ordinary cars"
"Climate change has existed for years, it will not harm us"
It was an abnormally cold and wet winter. Climate deniers here are basically saying “shit happens”
They literally are saying that it is like this every summer. The other excuse they use is that we shouldn’t be forced to do something when there are countries that pollute worse. The other argument they provide is that climate change policy affects poor people the most, so they claim that it would be unfair to them if we enacted any of it.