It’s been interesting over the years seeing my father go from “global warming isn’t real” to “it’s real, but not man-made,” to “it’s all China’s fault and we shouldn’t do anything about it”
The very classic four stage program.
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Sir Humphrey Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
Bernard Woolley: What’s that?
Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Sir Richard Wharton: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.
from “global warming isn’t real” to “it’s real, but not man-made,” to “it’s all China’s fault and we shouldn’t do anything about it”
The fucking South Park episode with MAn Bear Pig as a standin is fucking hilarious with this
But it snowed this winter! Once!
I’m a school bus driver and I have a coworker who is an avid climate-change denier. Here is an example of how stupid she is: she needed to borrow my bus for a run and I had it chocked. Since the chock was wedged solid under my front wheel, she decided she needed to use the crowbar to get it loose and tore the fuck out of it (and my front tire) in the process. It never occurred to her to start the bus and back up to free the chock.
She also 1) hates immigrants because they’re unvaccinated and “spread disease”, and 2) is anti-vax. I could never make this shit up in a million years. If you have children, consider that a lot of the people driving them to and from school are exactly this fucking stupid.
Trick her into giving you all her money. This seems like prime scam real estate. Get some olive oil, jack up the price, and tell her you’re selling “essential oils”. Or scare her by making her believe you’re God incarnate. Or kill her and take her wallet lmao
B-b-b-but muh Milkanovitch cycles!
(Seriously had a science teacher I was about about to throw hands with about this shit omifuckinggod)
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