Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation
Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation
Asheville NC and Western NC has been destroyed by hurricane Helene and flooding. People are saying the same boring tired things there and sharing the same misinformation.
This is just ordinary weather which happens all the time.
The only thing we can do is pray.
Climate change isn't real
This is dangerous to say things like this because it makes people believe that there's no climate change, and that is ordinary and expected when that's not even remotely true. It's leading people to ignorantly become complacent, not contact their government, and when disasters like hurricanes happen, they don't evacuate because they don't believe it'll be serious.
I started commenting on everything telling people that climate change is causing these issues and got the most unhinged glue-sniffer responses ever like
'this has always been like this' or 'liberal snowflake tears'
and the worst ones are always religious.
'we can't do anything to save our planet, you need to pray. Send your prayers'
God didn't create this issue? We are ruining our planet!
Example 1. We now have to surround hospital in Tampa Florida with a literal fucking wall just for ordinary storms
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFSX8mRS/
@Kevin R. Sullivan:Hurricanes have nothing to do with climate change
Deranged comments like this are very dangerous and spread false misinformation
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Becoming??? It has been for almost a decade. Anyone else remember the idiocy of flat-earthers??
The difference is that flat Earth theory people were honestly very few and far between. There were not a whole lot of these people around, but now, it seems like at least a quarter of the population if not more Don't believe in climate change, because if you look at every election in the USA, it's damn close. That means about 40 to 48% of the population honestly believes the bullshit that the far-right conservatives are pushing on them. Just look at Florida if you need any example. Banning books like we are in the 1800s, now they took down information that has the words climate change off of the official state websites, which is extremely dangerous after a major storms have decimated entire towns and cities. And people still won't believe it
There is no difference, flat-earth was the test. It showed that with little effort duping people online is easy because our educational system does not teach critical thinking.
Critical thinking and how to cross check your sources to verify if something is true are invaluable skills.
I graduated high school in 2006 and we had to learn both of those in order write research papers. I grew up in a blue state, and went to public school. My English teacher also taught us that "anyone can get a book published, or write an article online, so always cross check your sources and make sure they aren't making stuff up."
They taught us those skills so we could write papers for college, but I feel like they're even more important now just for navigating the internet.
The education system can't and won't ever teach "critical thinking" because the point of education is indoctrination and control.
Can't tell if fascist who wants to religiously indoctrinate their children in isolation, or has legitimate, sane issues.
arent they refrencing the famous quote from some guy in the school admin. talking about how school is for training people to be a part of the working class.
Education is learning critical thinking. People, politics, corpos, etc. use the education system for propaganda and indoctrination. The education isn't how people receive it. It's important to not mix them, otherwise you're already in the indoctrination process.
This is really disingenuous to say. I agree with you that flat earth is stupid beyond belief but it wasn't dangerous by any means. It's not something that requires action or change. It's just an idiotic belief. Choosing not to believe in climate change means that it's even more unlikely to pass legislation to stop it because People don't think it's an issue, and then it becomes even worse, and we are rapidly approaching the destruction of our entire world and there is nothing we can do about it. I as one person am simply incapable of changing anything if there are 10 other people with me in the same room that don't believe It's real. And people are losing their homes, everything they owned in their entire life. Flat earth believers, it's just a nuisance. This is a real actual threat we're talking about