They get unnecessarily VIOLENTLY angry if you address how other political issues are also important.
They are rabid, and do not have ‘chill’ mode. It’s impossible talking to them at all. They also force their beliefs about using public transportation on everyone when they don’t take into account that not everyone lives in a city.
Also, they fail to acknowledge that public transportation is not safe.
Listen, I get that climate change is a thing. But it’s not THEE ultimate and almighty issue.
it’s not THEE ultimate and almighty issue
We’re talking about the possible extinction of the human race. That seems to me to be the ultimate and almighty issue. I can’t imagine what you could think was more important.
Explain how is public transportation not safe?
He’s probably from India or the US.
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Climate change threatens to kill everyone on the planet. It is the ultimate issue right now. This is just humans going into survival mode and focusing on the big death.
Everyone who’s down voting, this is clearly a bona fide unpopular opinion, don’t downvote. It’s exactly why this community exists
Climate change threatens to kill everyone on the planet. It is the ultimate issue right now. This is just humans going into survival mode and focusing on the big death.
This is what I fear the most. Climate change will only become salient over time where obsession with it will manifests as extreme violence to secure resources. But it’s not like these murderous people are going to care about climate change per se; rather, they’ll think they need to secure what they need to continue their survival. But those resources, particularly water, will become less and less available because of climate change.
Better that climate “activists” block traffic, slash tires, and have no chill mode now than deeply flawed humans murdering, raping, and pillaging later for the same reason.
Okay bud you are wrong not just unpopular.
Indeed. The other issues don’t matter if we can’t get this under control.
Have you ever been on a road trip with the family, and you’ve been stuck in traffic for a while, and you start to get low on gas, but the next station is closed, and you aren’t sure if you’ll make it to the next gas station, so your trying to drive in a way that conserves fuel, but the traffic is barely moving? And then two people in the back start arguing over the song on the radio, and they demand you change the station? This is like that, except if you run out of gas, everyone on earth will die. Everyone you care about will suffer and die. All of the children everywhere, whether they starve or freeze or drown or burn, their lives will all be cut painfully short, all because you ran out of gas.
And you’re in the back whining about the stereo.
But it’s not THEE ultimate and almighty issue.
It is the single GREATEST existential threat to humanity right now. This isn’t an unpopular opinion, you are just factually incorrect.
Who is the “they” you’re referring too? From the title I guess all people are too heated up over climate change for you? (See what I did there ;) I am absolutely a climate activist but I for sure have a chill mode. I’m not violent and all I do is try to educate my friends and family. If we don’t address climate change we will destroy the world that’s a fact, so to me it is THEE most important issue. (FYI- thee actually means you, it’s not a stronger form of the like you’re using it).
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Dude, great post!
That is a truly unpopular opinion.
And, you aren’t wrong about most of it! The only thing I’d disagree with is the relative importance of the issue. Even that’s only because we’re at a tipping point where shit is getting close to being impossible to fix.
I agree that there’s a shit ton of zealotry around the subject, and that public transportation is not the answer to the problem everywhere. Folks that live in rural areas simply can’t use public transport because it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because there’s got enough tax base to support it. And there’s not enough population to use it even if it was economically feasible. That means that you’re still causing the same amount of pollution unless the area can support electric bases transport, which isn’t always possible.
And, you’re dead on with public transport not being safe everywhere. Even in fairly stable cities with good levels of security personnel have troubles. All you have to do is check places like r/subwaycreatures used to be, or publicfreakouts, or the lemmy equivalents, and you’ll see that even in places with great subway or bus service, you aren’t guaranteed a safe ride.
And places with less security? There’s way too many stories of women being damn near raped on busses in countries around the world to pretend that humanity is trustworthy in tight, cramped busses and trains.
Folks that live in rural areas simply can’t use public transport because it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because there’s got enough tax base to support it. And there’s not enough population to use it even if it was economically feasible
There was a recent thread around here somewhere about a small town that replaced its bus service with a public on call van service. They compared themselves to a public version of Uber but with fares like a bus service.
Yes you can have transit anywhere: it just may have different forms
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