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Most of the growing US population centres are in places that are at the forefront of unsustainablity and climate change danger.

For the vast majorty, there's just a complete lack of giving a fuck & zero real interest but just assuming things will be alright, no matter the evidence.

Another example, water issues and heat issues and it's the second fastest growing place in the US. On another note, creating wealth is a proxy for destroying the biosphere and making an unlivable planet.

https://archive.md/1Z5pU

KYLE, Texas—People and businesses have flooded into Kyle, Texas, since the pandemic, making it the second-fastest-growing city in the U.S. The influx is creating wealth but also contributing to a big problem: Kyle is getting hotter and running low on water

But climate change can make living here brutal. Underground, the aquifer that Kyle relied on is shrinking. The city for three years now has had to buy water rights from nearby San Marcos to satisfy its growing population. Temperatures hit nearly 100 degrees before this summer even started, and drought conditions persist. People wear neck fans, limit outdoor time to early morning and nighttime, and keep their children inside.

And here

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/hawaii-wildfires/maui-wildfire-survivors-las-vegas/

No sane person would choose to move to Vegas. The heat and lack of water are ridiculous and it's nothing but a giant monument to human stupidity and hubris... Yet here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

True enough, easier to pull over a black guy and shoot them instead. Mich less blow back as well.

Well most voters are entitled asshole that think a few solar panels and ecars is as much as can be expected and another bunch who think it's all bullshit anyway.

That's the vast majority. They Vote for the politcans who reflect that and its also why the Greens dont get enough votes to make substantive policy changes.

I'm 58, child free and have many such interaction multiple times.

Perhaps the other way around you don't but other people with kids sometimes do.

Thanks is for taking the time to bother. I'm Gen X, Vote Green and am a cyclist albeit I don't live there anymore I do have family who all think cyclists are a fair game amd cycling should be banned along with The Greens .

I was a cyclist like before I started voting Green. Who else would I support after the toxicity from the likes of Ryan?

Whike you have a point, when a bastard runs into a crazy guy, mayhem ensues, this is the result.

Weird way to defend your own ignorance ?

I've been riding motorcycles on roads for 40 years, as long as I have many other riders have referred to car drivers as cagers, and cars as cages. I don't use the terms but to infer its some new set of elite words becase you haven't heard it before is bizzare.

Open a dictionary, there will be many 1000s of words that are new to you.

Non car users are punching up, the world and its peoples are being destroyed and dominated by inappropriate car use.

This is a flase equivalence. The "terror" element is a distraction and a poor argument

It would be like Russia coming in and taking Donbas and saying "this is ours", and the world being outraged if Ukrainians fight back and if Ukrainians are still fighting back in 50 years people saying Ukrainians are terrible people look at the terror with zero context and worse still for people to be arguing for Russia, what a skap in the face that would be.

Would people still be outraged at the "terrorism" being wrought by Ukrainians because Russia says its terrorism ? Surely Israel's existence is a travesty, it does exist but obviously there is no dealing with this any other way until Israel stops. This never ends.

Israel just keeps taking more and more and being more and more provocative. What of Indonesia in West Papua? Or more recently Indonesia in Timor ?

This never ends, this is just another phase.

As a Geeen voter, I can't even think of what sort of Green voter would Vote Teal instead, they're night and day apart?

This doesn't pass the sniff test, you don't need to vote "tactically" in Australia, we have preferential voting, so a Green Vote might preference a Teal and see their vote flow that way of the green candidate doesn't hwt wnogh if the primary vote but thats a a different thing then Voting 1 Teal.

I always preference any Independent over the toxic shit stain that is the ALP and LNP.

MAGA

Burn it.

What about catch and release fishing ? Or is that just animal torture ?