Terrible work, everyone.

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Looking at liberals who refuse to even CONSIDER putting up an actually pro-climate candidate like

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liberals who refuse to even CONSIDER putting up an actually pro-climate candidate

I got a push poll from my Congresswoman, Liz Fletcher (D), accusing her biggest primary race rival of being a far-left extremist who would destroy the Houston economy with his climate alarmism. The poll also accused him of sponsoring Hamas terrorism and being weak on women’s rights because he wouldn’t negotiate on an abortion bill.

Still a little squishy on Pervez Agwan, but Fletcher’s poll did not help her case.

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Political polls be like:

Do you support: (A) TERRORIST DEATH AND VIOLENCE (B) RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE

Published results: 99% of people support ME!

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Its more:

How would you feel if you knew that Candidate A loves kittens and personally donated $50000 to the SPAC, has six shelter kittens of her own, and has advanced legislation to fund a study that will guarantee all cats receive adequate housing, food, and medical care without raising taxes or increasing the national debt?

How would you feel if you knew that Candidate B once kicked a stray cat over a fence, took money from an organization that refers to cats as “feral” and “unloveable”, hates Garfield, and won’t support the CATS Acts?

Okay, thank you for your response.

Now, having heard those messages, would you feel more inclined to support Candidates A, C, b, or D?

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Houston had not only like 100+ days of 100 degree weather, but we were also entering emergency water management conservation AND fire danger all over texas. It also doesn’t help that Houston has a chemical plant explosion every other month. The idea that the economy and climate are separate it’s so unhinged. Who is her opponent?

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Pervez Agwan is the one to watch

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I see you’re complaining about climate change again.

Have you personally spent your entire life recycling everything you can, composting all organic materials you touch, eliminating all red meat intake, planting multiple trees per year, growing your own vegetable and fruit garden in the backyard of your house which you own, avoiding purchasing any plastics despite everything being packaged as such, not buying anything anything beyond your extreme basic necessities, never flying in an airplane for any reason, preferring to keep anything broken and virtually unusable instead of replacing it since repairing it is either unavailable or too expensive, and only riding ebikes or only driving Teslas to save the environment?

No? Then you’re the real problem and you can’t complain.

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growing your own vegetable and fruit garden in the backyard of your house which you own,

What’s funny is I started doing that years ago less for the reduced carbon footprint of growing stuff that actually thrives in my local climate compared to buying produce from a grocer and more as a zen-finding exercise so [redacted]

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composting all organic materials you touch,

oil executives are made out of backwards chiral proteins, probably aliens

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Yeah, true that these things are good to do, but expecting all or even most of these things from working class or poor people is unrealistic at this point.

And realistically they would be better able to do these things and the environment would be better if the social economy was organized differently, which once again leads us to criticizing Capitalism as the principle issue instead of blaming individuals surviving and living within their material conditions, so I think people who blame individuals but are unwilling to support any shift in economy or politics are more to blame than people just trying to get by and doing what they can with what they are given.

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Even if they did all that, they’d wipe out all that carbon-savings by having a single kid in the US.

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ever wished there were a way to score free meat, do good for oppressed people, eliminate animal cruelty AND save the environment at the same time?

don’t look up “how many cops are there” and do not harvest the carbon negative pork!

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most useful image ever to be produced by AI

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Oooh saving this one, thank you

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When I was young, they told me we were working on new technology and it was going to stop the climate issue.

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When I was young, I saw polite little PSA’s in magazine’s telling me not to shower too long.

When I was young, I heard of the hydrogen car.

When I was young, I watched the crocuses grow in the spring.

When I was young, the snow fell on the correct dates.

When I was older, I realized the scope of it all.

When I was older, we were setting up the wind turbines.

When I was older, they were testing out new tech to harvest energy from currents.

When I was older, I saw my first electric car.

When I was older, we got new recycling bins.

When I was older, my neighbor threw his oil-heater out.

When I was older, I learned that cold melt water from the pole was slowing the Golf stream.

When I was older, I saw no crocuses.

When I was older, it snowed a day in May.

Today, I fear for it all.

Today, we are throwing the wind turbines in the trash after their use-life ran out.

Today, I know we don’t use solar panels cause it’d make electricity too cheap.

Today, they had posters begging us to sort correctly.

Today, I saw even more electric cars, and I knew they still ruined the climate.

Today, I looked outside, at the snow that came two weeks ago and stayed.

Today, it hit two degrees.

Will there be a tomorrow?

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We are truly in times

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Still huffing that “maybe China can do geoengineering” copium so I don’t fucking kill myself

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we’re gonna see the global south independently start dumping calcium carbonate into the upper atmosphere within a decade, mark my words

i wish em luck

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Sulphate aerosols, probably. Calcium carbonate is better for land/ocean based geoengineering. But yeah: the potential for unilateral action with stratospheric aerosol injection in particular is very high. There’s some evidence that doing it from the southern hemisphere will help mitigate some of the negative side effects, but that’s still inconclusive. We desperately need to talk about the global governance of this stuff before we deploy it, but we won’t.

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Specifically China will coordinate the effort and crush any military resistance to it seeing as the decline of the US is thoroughly assured now and we’re due for a military humiliation showing how much our arsenal has decayed

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There’s also having ships spraying seawater mist to make larger, brighter marine clouds.

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I hope that will cure my GERD

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China, build the solar sunshade

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My money is also on some form of arcologies as well if it gets bad enough

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SimCity 2000 let’s goooooooo.

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We’re going to turn the sky white with artificial clouds to block out the sun because that’s the stupidest and easiest thing to do.

We’ll still hit 4 degrees C, but we also won’t have a blue sky anymore.

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And then fossil fuel companies will use it as an excuse to keep fucking the planet. Changing the albedo with clouds is at best a delay of the inevitable.

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wrongshway erB will unironically do the mayocide

then there will at least be a lot of habitable land in the north

I will not flesh this out further, you have to read into it

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wrongshway erB

Is that some kind of pig-latin or code that we’re supposed to “read into”? or is one of us having a stroke?

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I can’t tell you or it won’t happen

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Yeah, it’s time to start making apologies for the lack of terror

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to the big oil capitalists

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Finally, someone speaking some sense.

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