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[–] circularfish@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The grim irony is that a lot of the pain will be felt in red Southern and Western states.* When the power grid goes down for good in Texas in 15 years or so, nursing homes filled with a lot of these climate skeptics are not going to be fun places.

*Yes, pour one out for SoCal.

[–] prole@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And they'll still blame the left. These people will never admit they were wrong about this. They will go to their graves claiming climate change is a hoax, even as the world that they were meant to leave for their children and grandchildren literally burns around them.

[–] agentsquirrel@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They'll blame it on renewables, even thought it's only like 9% of Texas' power, and they'll ironically complain there's not enough coal and gas fired generation plants.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And the left won't lift a finger to punish them in any meaningful way, so what difference does it make?