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I would have thought it was the climate but what would I know.
by superchroma 3y ago
I would have thought it was the climate but what would I know.
- smoldesu 3y agoMaybe they're angry over the climate?
- mikecoles 3y agoThese people just need a reason, any reason, to be angry at something so they can think they have a purpose.
- Geisterde 3y agoMaybe they are angry because of entirely other reasons and this is just an outlet they perceive as acceptable. The inability to save wealth, burdensome bureaucracy, a lack of meaning, unfair regulations, disparities in the prosecution of crime; I can think of a lot of things people are actually angry about, but somehow it always gets turned into anger about an entirely different set of things.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt’s a legitimate use of anger to be angry about something and use that emotion to motivate change.
- Geisterde 3y agoYou have missed my point, I'm not going to retread it, but I'll answer your post. No one is seriously angry about the environment, you might be angry about your environment, you are not angry about my environment which is a daily battle against nature to keep it from kicking my door down. Take a look at the US on google maps, notice the west half looks like a desert, yea, that's where all this activism seems to come from.
- PaulHoule 3y agoMy wife teaches people to ride horses and when she isn't doing rides or taking care of the horses she is landscaping so she spends almost all day outside in the weather. On top of that our business depends on pasture and hay and the availability of that has everything to with cycles of heat and moisture. A good hay crop depends on having enough rain for the grass to grow but having the rain stop for long enough for the hay to dry out. If it rains on the hay while it is drying we lose the whole crop. Some years the weather is perfect but other years we are waiting for a gap in the rain to cut the hay and biting our nails the whole time worrying that rain will spoil our crop. In upstate NY the expectation is that climate change won't make a big difference in how much water we get a year but it will make a big difference in the timing of when we get the water, it will be more bunched up so we will have more droughts that damage our crops and then more floods that damage property. If you aren't living in air conditioning all the time, climate change can very much give you something to be worried or angry about.
- Geisterde 3y agoOkay, I respect the hustle. However, now you are talking about maintaining a climate specifically how you want it. The climate changes naturally, I understand you are worried about a sudden human induced climate change, but that's not really the issue at hand when you want to preserve specific conditions. So who do we preserve the climate for, why is this the "right" climate? Will we ever decide to release more CO2 to create more farmland and warm cold climates? Why are we worried about people dying of heat when people die from cold 10/1? Are we going to hold back, say, 70 year climate cycles in Africa because we like things a certain way? Who gets to decide?