Climate Hope
A community dedicated to chronicling and spreading the word about positive actions, solutions, and policies being enacted to try to slow or prevent catastrophic climate collapse. We explore strategies and solutions for solving global warming, mitigating and preventing its deleterious effects, and protecting the environment, animal life and human life from it.
Rules:
- Kindness Always
No name-calling, trolling, ad-homs, personal attacks, strawmanning, or disrespectful or abusive behavior toward any other member.
- No Bigotry
This should go without saying, but any homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism/sexism/any kind of -ism is not allowed. “It’s just a joke” is not an excuse. Any sort of needling to try to convince the mods or anyone else to accept such behavior, or enabling or defending such, is not acceptable either. Breaking this rule will result in a ban on first sight.
- No Spam, NSFW, Or Other Disruptive Content or Behavior
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- On-Topic Only Please, No Doomerism, No Anti-Climate Rhetoric
All posts must be evidence of or related to positive actions, policies, and solutions to climate collapse. No doomerism or anti-climate rhetoric allowed; if you think climate change is not man-made or is not really happening, this is not the community for you. This sub is a positive, supportive place and giving into fear and despair over climate collapse is unhelpful and dangerous for people's mental health, so it won't be allowed here. This is humanity's greatest challenge and so we all need to band together and be there for each other as we fix our broken planet.
- English Only Please
Posts and comments must be in English only so they can be properly moderated.
Note: failure to abide by the rules may result in a ban depending on severity.
Rules subject to change based on community need.
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And the last part is by design. The media is owned by billionaires, politics are influenced by them. Renewables would take huge parts of manmade inquality away which would mean loss of power for the insane powercrazed. As long as media is privately owned and its first goal is making money instead of informing people, it is going to be overwhelming. Overwhelmed people dont have time to do science. This means only the privileged who are not wageslaves can actually invest time to read and think.
We have to agree to primacy of science. We also live (or at least say we do) live in democracies. This by definition means majority rule. If the majority of people who have worked, read and learned in a particular field tell us that we need to abolish oil and gas NOW, then the do that. We dont discuss feelings, we dont meet in the middle, we just do it. Its not that hard.
The scientific method and majority rule are literally incompatible. The entire purpose of the scientific method was to establish a mechanism within society for breaking from majority rule.
Thats bs. Science is just provable fact. Majority rule does not mean you can make mass rape legal. It means the majority accepts that there is a framework that will not be abandoned for clout. Science is not your enemy.
No, as a scientist it's idiots trying to lecture me on what science is that are much closer to being an enemy. Waaaay too many people think that quoting someone with an impressive title makes them personally smart.
There is also science to help you deal with behavioral issues like this. Have you tried therapy?