• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    They’re not desperate. Their system still works and trickle money up.

    What they’re doing is preparing you to make monthly payments for air breezing plans.

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    We’re barely capitalist, it’s all scheming and legal privileges and crime at this point. Even capitalism requires an adherence to a ruleset and the rulers we have do not like following any rules.

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    15 hours ago

    Nothing. Humans evolved with plants to complete the carbon cycle. Fossil fuels did not evolve, they are burned.

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      I quoted an article already but here’s another:

      we humans are a significant contributor to global warming. But, in reality, the CO2 we’re breathing out is part of a natural cycle, by which our bodies convert carbohydrates from CO2-absorbing plants into energy, plus water and CO2. As such, we’re not adding any extra CO2.

      which fully supports your statement

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    To be fair, it is a number I would be curious about because I just want to know. So I looked up the article:

    https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-much-does-human-breathing-contribute-to-climate-change

    be mad; read headlines; parrot social media; here’s another quote:

    In contrast, burning fossil fuels like coal releases CO2 which has been locked up for millions of years, producing a net contribution to global warming.

    The article is literally blaming capitalism

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      12 hours ago

      Even more important context, right at the top of the article:

      Asked by: Peter Thatcher, Lancaster

      This was a response to a reader-submitted question to a science magazine.

      Everyone raging in the comments here has just blindly read the headline and the deliberately-misleading social post attached, and they’ve decided to be mad instead of using even an ounce of critical thinking. Drives me crazy how much people seem to want to be angry.

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        Thanks. Keep up the dissecting. It is an important tool to lift the “ragefull” propagandistic discussions back to a reasonable exchange of facts and opinions.

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    Millenials and Gen Z are helping to combat this problem by having fewer kids. And yet, Billionaires complain about that, too. Lol.

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    No, no they have a point. I feel like if we stopped say roughly 3,428 people from breathing that the world would start to heal.

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      14 hours ago

      Well, the only way to “get rid of the rich” is the widespread disbursement of wealth, so actually no.

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      Not to mention while peddling population reduction propaganda on the platform of the dude that had so many kids he had to start labeling them with serial numbers and coincidentally wants to colonise another (uninhabitable) planet.

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        Doesn’t appear to be population control propaganda, he’s saying Capitalism bad. How he defines Capitalism isn’t clear, could be anything from /[non-state controlled manufacturing] to /[the west], or if they’re particularly misinformed they could be using it synonymously with loose regulation, corruption, and monopoly.

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    I’d like to see a meme where a fat capitalist sits and farts, and behind him are factories that can damage the planet’s climate a million times more in a week than millions of people in hundreds of years, or maybe thousands and tens of thousands of years, if not millions. Wait a minute… I remembered the video of Trump and the man who involuntarily winced while sitting behind Trump.

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    You know what, I think smoking Crack is a gold standard for, “the media.” It’s quite a crack addict thing to ponder, ya know? How much does human breathing contribute to climate change?