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Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they're not breaking news).

See also our Nature and Gardening community for discussion centered around things like hiking, animals in their natural habitat, and gardening (urban or rural).

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‘Don’t Look Up’ director Adam McKay wants to win the climate information war — with memes (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by NonStandardDeviation@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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Some example posts of their darkly satirical humor:

13 Differences Between Oil Executives and AI Robots: They may appear similar, but here’s how to tell them apart.

Money, it's great!

How does Bernard Looney, CEO of British Petroleum, stay so positive?

There's definitely a time and place for serious factual debate, but given that oil companies are well-known to act in bad faith with "public relations" misinformation (aka propaganda) campaigns, we might as well fight the firehose of falsehood with humor. In the Ukraine war, for example NAFO has been quite effective in countering Russian propaganda and disinformation by means of shitposting, more or less bullying Kremlin stooges off the Internet by spamming doge memes.

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