| ▲ | clintonb 9 hours ago |
| The current administration doesn’t care about climate change, or believes it’s a hoax. Given this, they see no need to fund research and data gathering that tells them otherwise. |
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| ▲ | francisofascii 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That is a charatable interpretation. A more negative take is they are purposely suppressing the evidence. |
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| ▲ | nom 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That is exactly what is happening. Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries. The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions. |
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| ▲ | exe34 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, they are attacking any and all forms of data collection that can be connected to climate change - even if it's not specifically for climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/... |
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| ▲ | ActorNightly 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| To be fair, the public in large also dgaf about climate change. Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care. |
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| ▲ | burkaman 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is not true, most people care about climate change, even in the US (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...). Maybe you think "if they care then why are they still driving/flying/eating meat/whatever" and I sympathize, but climate change is not an issue that will be solved by individuals taking responsibility, in the same way that wars still happen even when the vast majority of the population oppose them. If you're wondering why they don't at least vote for someone who cares about climate change, I don't know. But claiming people don't care at all is not true and is self-defeating, because it makes people who do care think "I guess I'm in the minority, there's no point in trying". | | |
| ▲ | triceratops 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > If you're wondering why they don't at least vote for someone who cares about climate change, I don't know People are single-issue voters on pointless shit like abortion and bathrooms. Where are all the single-issue climate change voters? | |
| ▲ | ActorNightly 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >I guess I'm in the minority, there's no point in trying Thats exactly how it is. Look at the current politics discourse. Even now, in the presence of ordinary people, there can be a conservative who supports Trump, but you are supposed to be "nice" to them, because its all just political opinions, and those ordinary people are removed from the real destruction of lives that the current administration carried out for many people. Same with global warming. People are far removed from the real effects, so most people just don't actually care. And in the same way that all the anti vaxxers who got covid and urged others to take the vaccine before they died, people need to get hit over the head with reality before they start to care. The only way forward that doesn't involve mass famine/death is some low level societal control that forces people to behave for fear of real consequences. |
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| ▲ | taylortbb 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care We already have them. People just claim they're chance effects with no connection to climate change. The problem with refuting it is that they are chance events, there's no way to definitively say "this was caused by climate change", because it's always possible it would have happened anyways. It's the upwards trend in frequency and severity that we can definitively point and say "that's caused by climate change", but that's too abstract for most people to understand. | |
| ▲ | alphawhisky 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Well, it is an El Nino year... | |
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