Asheville NC and Western NC has been destroyed by hurricane Helene and flooding. People are saying the same boring tired things there and sharing the same misinformation.

This is just ordinary weather which happens all the time.

The only thing we can do is pray.

Climate change isn’t real

This is dangerous to say things like this because it makes people believe that there’s no climate change, and that is ordinary and expected when that’s not even remotely true. It’s leading people to ignorantly become complacent, not contact their government, and when disasters like hurricanes happen, they don’t evacuate because they don’t believe it’ll be serious.

I started commenting on everything telling people that climate change is causing these issues and got the most unhinged glue-sniffer responses ever like

‘this has always been like this’ or ‘liberal snowflake tears’

and the worst ones are always religious.

‘we can’t do anything to save our planet, you need to pray. Send your prayers’

God didn’t create this issue? We are ruining our planet!

Example 1. We now have to surround hospital in Tampa Florida with a literal fucking wall just for ordinary storms

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFSX8mRS/

@Kevin R. Sullivan:Hurricanes have nothing to do with climate change

Deranged comments like this are very dangerous and spread false misinformation

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    The difference is that flat Earth theory people were honestly very few and far between. There were not a whole lot of these people around, but now, it seems like at least a quarter of the population if not more Don’t believe in climate change, because if you look at every election in the USA, it’s damn close. That means about 40 to 48% of the population honestly believes the bullshit that the far-right conservatives are pushing on them. Just look at Florida if you need any example. Banning books like we are in the 1800s, now they took down information that has the words climate change off of the official state websites, which is extremely dangerous after a major storms have decimated entire towns and cities. And people still won’t believe it

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      There is no difference, flat-earth was the test. It showed that with little effort duping people online is easy because our educational system does not teach critical thinking.

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        The education system can’t and won’t ever teach “critical thinking” because the point of education is indoctrination and control.

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          Can’t tell if fascist who wants to religiously indoctrinate their children in isolation, or has legitimate, sane issues.

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        This is really disingenuous to say. I agree with you that flat earth is stupid beyond belief but it wasn’t dangerous by any means. It’s not something that requires action or change. It’s just an idiotic belief. Choosing not to believe in climate change means that it’s even more unlikely to pass legislation to stop it because People don’t think it’s an issue, and then it becomes even worse, and we are rapidly approaching the destruction of our entire world and there is nothing we can do about it. I as one person am simply incapable of changing anything if there are 10 other people with me in the same room that don’t believe It’s real. And people are losing their homes, everything they owned in their entire life. Flat earth believers, it’s just a nuisance. This is a real actual threat we’re talking about