I posted on Facebook about hurricane Helene hitting Asheville North Carolina and how climate change resulted in one of the most severe storms and disasters we have ever seen in American history. This public school teacher in Florida proceeded to message me privately to tell me that climate change is fake, and how I need to get real because climate change supposedly had nothing to do with Western North Carolina looking like the setting for the next season of Fallout TV series. There’s no other way to put it, honestly. I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage, it is simply astonishing. I have never seen something so gruesome and horrific in my whole life…
It’s honestly crazy that there are teachers, who are responsible for educating other people, and this is the kind of stuff that they are telling people.
Climate change is it is portrayed by the media is BS. It is more of a tool to get people all wound up. I’ve known people who are on the verge of a mental breakdown because the media is constantly telling them the Apocalypse is happening.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not arguing that a changing climate isn’t bad. It is very much something that needs to be addressed like all environmental issues. However, in my experience the climate change people are the the ones who are cutting down the rainforest to build “climate friendly” wind turbines. It is a complex issue and honestly more of a belief than a science.
Yep plenty of people in the media miss use climate change to green wash (and green light) new projects.
Its a shame. We really need PSAs or something to help straighten out public consensus of what exactly climate change is and what it causes.
But then we’d have to consume less, and they don’t want that.