The highest temperatures ever recorded in European countries

Yes, agreeable (I would not have used those words though, the real danger is not in this minister nor in his party). But why do you think they were elected in the first place and why is their consensus soaring day after day? Are people just "dumb"? Misinformation? Distrust of more moderate parties who did nothing to prevent the current crisis? This is a place for discussion.

You know what is also harmful propaganda?
To shift the entire blame on some faceless companies or politicians, or "rich people", ignoring that you're part of the rich people on this planet. You all are the people those companies produce their shit for. You all are the people who vote the people responsible for their inaction into power. You all are who shun and ridicule all the green parties, politicians and activists.

You can continue to do that, but you only do it so you can continue to drive your cars, to continue to buy cheap products from countries like China, to continue to consume highly polluting animal produce on a daily basis, to continue to uphold your lavish lifestyle while actual poor people have fuck all (including barely any emissions).

Your type of comment is nothing but greenwashing too and I'd not be surprised if some leaks in a few years come out that will back up the fact that oil companies were pushing for that too.

So what I happen to have the same stance as the oil industry?

I consistently try to vote against politics who are not doing anything for the environment.

I didn't vote initially for Macron because he barely does anything for the environment but then I had to choose between Marine Le Pen (far right and often considered as racist) or Macron. Both of them really bad to fight against climate change.

In my country at least, you only have an illusion of democracy with our current system. And Macron works only on announcement that they carefully draw back a few months later when they already have benefited from the political gains of announcing yet another ambitious climate plan.

Maybe the oil industry says this is lost because they know they control fully the politics in power.

Again, I do as much on my level and I'm about to embark in a 10h train journey across France to avoid taking a 2h flight. I'm trying. I'm just saying we are delaying the inevitable which is on its own already a good thing.

But this mechanically cannot work. Our president is elected for 5 years and has no reason to lose votes for something that will be an issue for the next generations. And we cannot elect people who care about the environment because the populist far right parties are too strong right now and gathering support through xenophobia and racism.

Do your best for the environment but just keep in mind that we need to prepare for the worst for the next generations. I think we are doing a disservice to them to tell them we are actively trying to fix climate change when the CO2 emissions are very clearly increasing.

Oil subsidies have never been higher. It's fucked up.

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Climate Town - The Troll Army of Big Oil

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Are we tackling anything in the last decade ?

Do people look at the ever increasing graph of CO2 emissions worldwide ?

It increased last year. It will increase this year.

Let's do our best to delay it but it's happening people.

Our politics are all cowards no matter the country.

It sort of is because the actions we would have to take would cripple our economies and directly affect the people living in our rich nations. That's why there's constantly resistance against even the slightest bit of climate action, even if it is just a few wind turbines or solar panels, which is the bare fucking minimum. But god beware we also add co2 taxation on products and people lose their collective shits. You can see that barely anyone is ever voting for green parties and politicians who promote this shit, because it would directly affect them. You can see how people react towards activists who protest to have exactly those type of actions being taken. The majority does not care and that's a simple reality that we have to start to accept so that we can move towards more drastic steps to take.

Neat link!

There's another set of graphs on that page that do show we are setting more high temperature records and fewer low temperature records over time, which while not really what I was saying, is still relevant and interesting (and scary)

Sure, a few measurements from a small number of tiny, unimportant islands are going to prove that climate change isn't real, or whatever.

What?!?

Anyway, why do you think they're talking about political Europe, not geographical Europe?

Because there are borders and borders aren't geographical but political...

What "NoNewNormal" should've been about.