I’m a parent and I sure af would not tolerate this fucking corporate propaganda being forced on my son.
Well, we’re gonna start teaching kids about the different types of power sources and their pros and cons, I sure hope we starts pushing more education about nuclear.
Nuclear could be great, but it’s not that great right now. Though pushing education about it would be great for sure…
Watch this truly independent video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kahih8RT1k&t=1216s Unfortunately nuclear is not going to save us, at least not without significant technological advances.
It always amuses me how politicians and community “faith based” leaders can blithely condemn what scientists have been warning about for decades, as if they know better (with no training or experience). Anti-intellectualism is the Dunning-Kruger effect applied to politics, known as Populism, aka the idiots revenge.
These politicians don’t give a fuck about being right. They probably know they are wrong. Being a climate change denier just lines their pockets better.
too bad we’re all gonna be dead in a few decades.
The problem with faith-based leaders is that they do everything in bad faith.
Florida students who want to go to college in other states will need months of remedial education to catch up.
Why would those colleges admit them? Any college worth attending already has more than enough qualified applicants.
Florida kids are going to grow up and leave Florida and be like “What the fuck?” Why is the rest of the world different from what o was taught.
Leave Florida? The majority of Americans never travel more than a few hundred miles from where they’re born. And an overwhelming majority never leave the US.
Is the SOB trying to burn the planet down or what? That’s criminal. I wish those POS could be held accountable for the dangerous ideas they push.
Oh we can and should hold them accountable all right.
He’s finally gone far enough out there that I now see this as more amusing than alarming. I’m sure I’ll get snapped back into anger soon enough, but I’m gonna enjoy this break from reality while it last. Clownfuck.
I felt the same about Trump on 2015-2016. I was bewildered when so many believed in and supported him.
The fact that I no longer underestimate stupidity leaves me more afraid after reading this news, not less.
Reminds me of how Trump has been going after wind farms for a long time. He claims they’re noisy and they’re killing all the birds. (He began saying this when Scotland wanted to place Wind farms near his Scottish golf resort)
What an idiot, birds aren’t even real.
Problem was that they are government agents/drones/whatever and this is costly for the government
It’s almost silly to look into bird deaths and realize just how low wind power is on the list, even with its rapid growth in recent years. It was recently estimated that with the expected growth of wind power, it will be killing about 2.2 million birds a year in the US… in 2050. Meanwhile, power lines kill anywhere from 12 to 48 million a year right now, fossil-fueled power plants kill as many as 14 million a year right now, communication towers kill over 5 million, cars 60-80 million, pesticides as much as 90 million, and cats well over a billion. Every year. The numbers aren’t that hard to find. Replacing all fossil-fueled power plants with wind turbines would be a net positive for bird populations, and the facts make that very clear.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/08/22/pecking-order-energys-toll-on-birds
https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/weekly-data-how-many-birds-are-really-killed-by-wind-turbines/If they actually cared about birds they’d shut up about wind power and try to get rid of cats instead
Like Bob Barker said, spay and neuter your pets.
And keep your cats indoors!! Outdoor cat pets should be illegal.
(Maybe there’s a case for farm cats keeping vermin population in check? I don’t know enough to have an opinion on that.)
They did have an effect on birds though. I think it was almost entirely mitigated by painting one blade black, if memory serves, but it was based on some truth.
Please don’t give their statement any credibility without adding the important context. Based in some truth may be technically accurate, but when compared to all the other possible causes of bird death it’s basically inconsequential.
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
If there’s a solution, such as painting one blade a different color, then great. We can leave it up to the turbine engineers and wildlife agencies to address it, it doesn’t need to be part of any news cycle. Giving their outlandish claim any air at all lends it far too much weight.
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Remember this when Florida is flooding.
There’s a chance by that point they’ll literally be able to blame climate change on green energy. Remember there were people in Florida blaming wind turbines for a hurricane a few years back. It’s not like the conservative base looks at facts and data, they believe what they’re told and if they get told solar causes Florida to sink they’ll believe it.
This feels like corpos laying the groundwork for the next stage of climate denial – as the signs become undeniable, they’ll blame it on anything besides their fossil fuels.
Remember there were people in Florida blaming wind turbines for a hurricane a few years back.
So now it’s wind turbines causing hurricanes? I was told it was the existence of gay people. Which is it, conservatives?
Yeah, figureitout there bud
Atlantis got flooded and look how famous it is today.
We’ll soon see Ron dAtlantis
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Damn, America’s really fucking dumb.
Florida* I’m from California and I’ll be damned if I’m lumped in with most of the rest of the US (Oregon and Washington are great though).
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Eh, the populated areas of Oregon and Washington are chill. The rural areas are scary.
As someone who grew up in rural Washington on the threshold of populated Washington, yeah shit gets pretty fucked really quick in those rural areas.
It was a really religious area as well so that really didn’t help. The local religious people have a strong belief in having as many children as possible as soon as possible. The running non-joke (because it’s common) about it is the first kid to turn 16 drives the 3rd van.
California is like that too, we’re not special unfortunately
Very true!
Yeah it gets pretty embarrassing the more east, southeast ya go. SMH
From your PNW neighbor, thanks!
We’re a great coalition of states, even with the red areas we have to drag kicking and screaming into this century.
I truly believe if the US went to shit California, Oregon and Washington would end up as one of the resulting territories. It makes a lot of geopolitical sense.
BC joins and we become Cascadia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement
(except I could have sworn it included California originally. It does for me!)
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Luckily the world is bigger than the US/Florida
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Unfortunately the US has a tendency to export their particular brand of crazy to the rest of the world
But is it big enough to survive US/Florida
In our old age, Millennials and Zoomers will envy the respect the Baby Boomers are given today. We’ll say “I was one of the good ones, I voted against this!”
2010s Florida kids in about 80 years:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UulEsFPhIjY&pp=ygUXY3VyaW9zaXR5IGtpbGxlZCBnZW9yZ2U%3D
Yes, Ron, everyone knows Clean Coal™️ is the one true source of non-pollution.
Is anyone stupid enough to believe this?
Republicans
Belief in Clean Coal would be an improvement for his brain!
He’s currently trying to pave Florida roads with literal radioactive mining waste.
It’s fine though, if you say “radioactive” his supporters will insist it must be nuclear.
Yes… People are stupid
No, they aren’t. In 15 or 20 years, however, when people have left their indoctrination camps disguised as schools …
I used to ride the bus with a lady who grew up in a coal town. We once debated over coal. She said it was so green because there were so many regulations and that wind and solar were horrible for the environment because they were killing birds. So yeah, people are stupid.
Glass windows kill birds too when they try to fly through them. How exactly did she think solar power could kill birds or be bad?
PV panels, not really, but concentrated solar can and does kill birds. Not nearly as many as coal, though, lol.
Instant rotisserie chicken!
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Children in school
Yep. They’re trying to get their lies in as these children’s first belief on the matter. Anyone pushing a different view (such as the truth) will then have to defeat this belief first. Same thing religions do, because they know their stuff doesn’t stand up to neutral mature scrutiny.
My Dad just last night was complaining about wind farms…
PragerU has produced anti-climate policy videos since shortly after it began in 2009. The Prager foundation has received millions of dollars from the billionaire brothers, Farris and Dan Wilks of Texas, who made their fortune in fracking.
PragerU has received additional funding from foundations that oppose climate regulations such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
PragerU CEO Streit said her group has tapped into angry parents who want their politics reflected more in classrooms.
Yup.
I see conservatives have already shifted from “take politics out of the classroom” to “put our politics into the classroom”.
That’s what it always was. Many people view. “Politics” as simply being anything they don’t like or disagree with.
Or anything that’s not the status quo.
This is common, and it’s why a lot of conservatives describe themselves as “not political” while acting and voting conservative. From their perspective it’s just all these annoying people stirring things up and demanding change to a perfectly good situation who are the political ones.
In general, when someone says “I’m not political,” I hear “I’m unreflectively conservative.”
If someone is lobbying for climate change denial then they’re guilty of something morally akin to treason, but it’s not treason itself because instead of just betraying just their country they’re betraying their entire species.
