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> HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust [1] > The Cato Instit
by danek_szy 1mo ago
> HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust [1]
> The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. [2]
It's nothing more than US libertarian think tank trying to influence EU policy... Perhaps in an effort to push more anti climate change agenda/discourse in US (but that might be just my projection).
Thank you, case closed.
[1] https://humanprogress.org/about/ https://humanprogress.org/about/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
- vlyan 1mo agoI think even when it's 45C and your boomers cook alive in their concrete ovens, I will still see these sneering opinions from the enlightened master race, civilized to the point of welcoming their own extinction to preserve the klimat for someone else's children.
- danek_szy 1mo ago[citation needed] :) edit: (well the author decided to remove part of his comment mentioning "face-condoms", too bad)
- vlyan 1mo agookay, sure. I only removed it because I know that questioning the mass hysteria of that brief era gets you flagged. >the RKI estimated roughly 2,600–4,900 heat-related deaths annually in 2022–2025 >Germany reported about 2,800 COVID-19-associated deaths in the 2024/25 season, which covers most of the 2025 winter and spring. so yes, taking Germany as the example, the world-ending plague now kills fewer boomers per year than summer does, despite it being over 4 years since anyone wore face condoms or gave a shit about bi-weekly boosters.
- tempfile 1mo agoLazy climate change denialism, nobody is convinced.
- vlyan 1mo agoacknowledging that climate has changed is climate change denialism?
- tempfile 1mo agoWhat did you mean by "preserve the klimat for someone else's children" then?
- vlyan 1mo agoaboriginal Europeans' TFR is about 1.2 and falling. even if did remain that high (it won't!), 750M will become <100M in 100 years and <10M in 200 years. Europeans have already adopted the most effective strategy imaginable to fight klimat change -- extinction. so I don't think it's fair to scold Hans from Hamburg over his carbon footprint. Abdul from Mogadishu may emit less CO2 over his own lifetime, but each of his 5 children will have 5 children, and no one will scold him for it.
- tempfile 1mo agoSo Hans can do whatever he likes because you want to blame Abdul for the cumulative sum of all his descendants?
- vlyan 1mo agoyes. does that not make sense to you? unless Hans is a young global leader who flies his private jet to Davos every year to urge proles to eat ze bugs, his carbon footprint will be less than that of someone with children. (I would use something other than "Abdul from Mogadishu" as the counterpart, but the only remotely European people not going extinct are some subgroups of Israeli Jews.)
- Moldoteck 1mo agoCase closed that europe got tens of thousands excess deaths from heatwaves?
- danek_szy 27d agoYes