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Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]?

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Memetic@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OP is regurgitating oligarch deflection. Oligarchs did this, age is completely irrelevant in this connection, and there will continue to be oligarchs in every single generation, unless something is done about it.

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  • serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, sure it’s the “boomers” fault, not the fault of countless corporations. I’ll bet people are pretty much as damaging as they were four decades ago.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Boomer not want regulate oil company because then Boomer 401k go down.

      Oh no!

      Boomer vote for moron who make 401k go down anyway, Boomer house burn down / wash away in flood / hurricane.

      Sad, indeterminate Boomer noises

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except corporations aren’t some mythical deities. They are run by people, especially boomers

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What generation was it that invented leaded gasoline and put asbestos in everything, again? 🤔

      Oh yeah… The Greatest Generation.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The “Greatest Generation” are the parents of Boomers.

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    • fafferlicious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The boomers have held the lever and power longer than any other generation, at least in America. It is their fault because they run the companies and they run the government.

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      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right but like our grandads? Like my grandad did that?

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ha ha sure, 200 years of Industrial Revolution but it’s the “boomers” fault.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      50% of fossil carbon has been released in the last 30 years.

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      • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So it was gen z who did it then.

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is wrong. It’s 20-25%. And the last 50 years includes a whole bunch on non-boomers and a massive industrialization of Asia. WTF is up with you people and “boomers”? There’s always going to be old people. And all of them were formerly young people.

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    • Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, sure, but in the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act and managed to elect Republicans for 78% of the time from 1970-present.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act

        Johnson passed the '68 Civil Rights Act, but failed to actively enforce it. The subsequent Nixon/Reagan Southern Realignment involved some of the most deliberate and calculated voter disenfranchisement in the country’s storied history of voter disenfranchisement.

        Consequently, states like Texas and Louisiana and Georgia and Florida can host enormous pools of liberal and progressive voters who are blacklisted, caged, gerrymandered, or outright felonized. The lay (white) American only kinda-sorta understands it is happening (thanks to the tsunami of “Record High Crime!” news hysterics), while voter turnout rates stay abnormally low relative to their global neighbors.

        What we saw following the Kennedy assassination in '64 was functionally a coup. Blaming “the American voters” for the subsequent composition of Congress and the White House makes about as much sense as blaming Egyptians for el-Sisi or Russians for Putin. This is a white settler government running an armed occupation, not a liberal democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “They” elected the Republicans? Voter turnout then and now says all ages were/are complicit in sitting on their hands. Boomer hate, though trendy and scores internet points, does nothing to resolve the current world situation and the future… Boomers are dying off rapidly. Whose fault will it be next…?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.

      Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.

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    • 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This. Modern climate change wasn’t really understood until the 70s.

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        While partially true, we have known that greenhouse gasses contributed to climate change since the 19th century:

        In the late 19th century, scientists first argued that human emissions of greenhouse gases could change Earth’s energy balance and climate. The existence of the greenhouse effect, while not named as such, was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier. The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838. In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated that the warming effect of the sun is greater for air with water vapour than for dry air, and the effect is even greater with carbon dioxide.

        en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_climate_change_scie…

        It is true, however, that our knowledge greatly increased in the 1960s and 70s.

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  • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reminds me of when I got an ad showing intense heat and wildfires in my state, but the city names were AI generated Cyrillic text. Felt like a Russian was saying exactly that.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks like that is mostly written in JPEG

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m feeling guilty for running my truck motor here at break for the A/C but then I remember all those private jets at Davos.

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cross post from a similar post.

    vger.to/lemmy.ca/comment/18082517

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