Sick of being lectured about the climate crisis

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I try my best to leave as little carbon footprint as possible.
Married with no kids and annual dual fuel bills are under£700
1 small car, holiday overseas once every 5 years.
So why do those wealthy families with 3,4, 5 plus kids who drive SUV tanks and holiday every year multiple times.,who consume £300 plus in energy bills monthly, have the audacity and blatant cheek to lecture others on the climate crisis.

It's like they have only just twigged their excessive greed and consumption just might now mean your kids futures are ruined.
It's making me so angry.

You're talking rubbish and being deliberately divisive.. People have all sorts of reasons for high fuel costs, including health reasons.

Ah, Communism alive and well, just like it was during covid.

You have no idea of what communism is, other than to use it as an insult.

Where are you getting this from?

I don't need people continually 'communicating the risks of climate change' to me. I'm good, thanks. I understand. I get it. I've seen the David Attenborough programmes. I've read the articles. I do my bit. Running around screaming, 'WE'RE IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!!!!' constantly just pisses me off.

I fucking know!!! I am aware! We're all aware! We don't need any more awareness (except the MN idiots who heat their houses to 25 degrees). We need governments and scientists to do something. We're all scratching about doing our little micro-eco-saves (beeswax wrappers for our sandwiches, swapping shower gel for soap bars, walking to the shops with our reusable bags) but what's needed is proper government action and big, significant scientific solutions.

I've noticed that many people are misusing words on Mnet these days.

Some people have reasons, many don't. Many just heated their large houses and tumble dried hoodies after one wear while being subsidised by the tax payer last winter.

The stereotypical multi car household with 20 flights per year and loads of waste generally doesn’t annoy me nearly as much as the climate change deniers.

I’d rather they just said I have no intention of voluntarily changing my behaviours and/or can’t afford to, or whatever the reason is. At least that would be honest. The deniers are literally idiots I have no time for.

This is an excellent post and well articulated.

Fact is, the (so-called) "climate crisis" is for the middle classes, just like covid was, because they can afford it.

The less well off are simply struggling to make ends meet and feed their families, they just have no time for this nonsense.

The first type of people don't actually believe in climate change. If they did they would change their behaviour.

I've said it will be military research and development, silicon valley, and scientists etc that will produce the equipment and technology to save the planet.

Are the oil protestors trying to be the next Greta ?

What is this ridiculous and nonsense "denier" labelling stuff.

Accusing people of being "deniers" is what you learned during covid (nudged into using it by the mainstream media) and you think it makes you sound morally superior.

You think it gives you the edge, makes you the clever one, the morally superior one, when it's just intellectually lazy and virtue signalling nonsense.

Basically anyone that has a different perspective than the original mainstream narrative.

Of course it's an insult.

Have you never read a history book?

Says the post with the most buzzword bingo points - extra for ‘virtue signalling’.

I’ll rephrase, people who chose not to believe that climate change is happening. 11 words instead of 1.

Your life must be so awful to be so disturbed by science.
Get a grip.
Its pathetic how triggered people are by climate change conversations. Wait until it really starts biting.

it’s not nonsense though, it’s real and will affect the poorest the worst too. there won’t be sudden scientific breakthroughs that solve this, the only answer is not burning fossil fuels - or at least cutting it dramatically.

if people really are lecturing you while still being high emitters themselves then tell them, lecture back by all means.

the poorest are the lowest emitters but also the ones who stand to gain the most from actual climate action - a properly insulated efficient home with low energy costs would be a big help, and we should be giving those upgrades to the poorest for FREE, subsidised through a carbon tax on high emitting activities starting with flights and gas guzzling cars.

that is a sort of communism I suppose and one I can really get behind.

Using the word ‘denier’ to mean someone who denies anthropogenic climate change makes a lot more sense than your reference to communism on the last page….

It’s all bollocks anyway.

what is ?

Imma add ‘Climate Change’ alongside ‘Race’ to the list of ‘Things People on MN can’t Discuss With Intelligence’.

I've lived through all of this ⬇

All of it.

So basically the main stream media is what ever it needs to be at x year

At least the killer bees were allowed another outing.

boomer facebook BS, most of it made up isn’t a proper response.

if there is clear evidence that AGW isn’t real then where are the scientific studies confirming that ? where is the peer reviewed evidence ?

How can most be made up if it was the main steam media narrative at the time.