Pacific rim, you mean that movie that promotes killing oneself to kill aliens?

but I love watching cities get flattened by disasters

love that disaster porn

Yeah

how antisemetic of you

and nice human survival stories

good shit 👌

also Independence Day

@Timcast you must admit that climate change could be an excellent excuse for authoritarian policies of all kinds. In theory it could justify almost any action if spun properly.

If it could we'd be there already, I think.

It's a pain in the ass to get countries to listen about it.

Everything can be an excuse by an authoritarian policy

couldn't anything be spun for authoritarian policies ?

i like the term watermelon for ppl who use green rhetoric to push red (socialist) policies

@Der Kommissar true that.

Environmentalism has always appealled to collectivists of all sorts because it's founded on the tragedy of the commons.

Never let a disaster go to wast @Cygnus

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@Cygnus thats what it is. just read UN agenda 13 and agenda 21

In addition to the hyperbole about man-made climate change, there's also the hypocritical and regressive advocacy of de-industrialization. Celebrities who consume 50x more than the average person telling people to revert to pre-industrial modes of living.

@Exiled Sentinel yup.

i too like the term watermelon, but i use it to refer to an entirely different selection of people

@Jasse agreed

Like all 8 billion of us can live in yurts and farm organic tomatoes for sustenance.

hmmm organic tomatoes

@Atkins you could if forced to. 🤔

you can really taste the bugs

No you couldn't.

@Atkins None of the people profiting from climate change alarmism are living carbon-negative lifestyles themselves. They clearly think it's all a big scam.

I'm anti authoritarian, that's why I'm concerned about the use of stuff like that for control

WIthout nitrogen fertilizer and insecticides there isn't enough arable land for that many people, especially if they don't use industrial farm equipment.

socialism has a solution for that

vertical farms and hydroponics are neat

*winku*

the Great Green Wall is an interesting project too

There's no such thing as hydroponic grain.

built it betweeen america and mexico

At least not on a commercial scale. Might exist in a Mars lab somewhere, but not in grocery store shelves.

Grain isn't so good for you anyway.

Grain makes up most of the planet's calories.