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Climate change is a hoax (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think about this comic probably once a week at this point. I don't know if anyone will ever be able to boil the problem down any further than what's here — "but what if we make a better world for nothing?"

Unfortunately I have tried to show this to people, or use the line that illustrates it, and the gist of the general response is "my comfort comes before our safety."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

"Comfort means nothing without safety. "

Or maybe

"you won't stay comfortable long that way."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

my comfort comes before our safety.

Then the billionaire says the same and crushes their lives.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah this comic is perfectly accurate, plus the one with the man in the business suit, talking to some children around a campfire in a post-apocalyptic setting, saying “yes the world was destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we made a lot of value for it shareholders.”

EDIT - this one:

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

"But it's not profitable." -people who wouldn't profit off it anyway, on any issue about socialism.