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My dad thinks climate change is a scam and "someone [i]s making a lot of money from it"
My dad also laments that the local lake doesn't freeze over like it did when he was a teenager, DRIVING on top of it with his brothers.
Totally unrelated to climate change though. Cause that's totes fake.
Also storms are more violent and frequent, winters are basically spring 2.0 now and the local river has flooded way past historic levels and could threaten the downtown area of their city within the decade.
But all that is SOOOOOOO unrelated.
The cognitive dissonance is so strange to me. I'm a native Cheesehead and it's a well documented fact that ice fishing season in Wisconsin is quickly getting shorter and shorter due to the higher winter temperatures.
Maybe it's a branding issue. What if we start referring to "climate change" as "demise of ice fishing" or "imminent collapse of the snowmobile industry"?
That should make the tourism industry get their lobbying straight.
He is partially right - there are people making a lot of money from climate change... Or at least from causing it
To be fair there are also a lot of 'green' company scams out there too. Grifters are everywhere
Yup, and it has a name - Greenwashing.
I would say "some", not "a lot". Unless you know about way more "green" scams than I'm aware of.
That’s capitalism for you: one company makes money creating the problem and another fixing it! It’s double-pumped!
A thousand year event, every year.
The hottest day on record every year
Talked to a random farmer last week:
"Weather is unpredictable, so wet, then hot, then cold. I need to work 36 hours straight or our hay will get wet. But I gotta feed my cows. Well, I guess this is just how it is, right?"
I really didn't know what to say to him. Evaporation, water cycle, soil compaction, diesel, methan, milk? He wouldn't even try to understand any of this. I don't want to become one of the cynical "we are fucked"-people. Everyone can change something in their lifes.
That sounds like some northern Minnesota things lol
While I think climate change is a real issue and we need to do something about it, I can see the rationale behind your dad’s thoughts and childhood memories.
Is the planet getting hotter is one thing and was it caused by humans is another thing.
No, it really isn't. We know it's us now. We've known.