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Dropping environmental concerns from a pension profile has got to be the worst sort of irony. What good is retiring with slightly more money if the world you're retiring into is literally on fire?
And think about what you're leaving behind.
Because the world wouldn't be literally on fire, that's hyperbole.
Hi its only May and my province is already literally on fire to the point where my sports games are getting cancelled from air quality cconcerns.
You would benefit from learning what hyperbole is. Then you would not use hyperbole to counter hyperbole.
And everyone else downvoting a person using proper English.
Can you explain how what I said was hyperbole? Because it was all factually accurate.
100,000 hectares of my province burned last week because of drought conditions and unseasonally high temperatures. The resulting smoke caused my sports games to be cancelled. How can facts be hyperbolic?
The disingenuous use of the word literally to provoke an emotional response.
But my province literally is on fire - that's not hyperbolic. We have 20,000 people being evacuated as their towns are (your favorite!) literally burning down.
The guy I replied to is the one who started using the word "literally":
My province is literally on fire.
Not necessarily the case here but the word “literally” can be used figuratively so what’s the point of your comment anyway?