https://archive.is/2023.07.31-204536/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/climate-change-obsession-is-a-real-mental-disorder-carbon-kids-anxiety-hot-temps-df0050fa
If heat waves were as deadly as the press proclaims, Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning.
Climate change obssessers acting like it's the hottest month in 120,000 years or something.
You'd think we were in the thick of the World's 6th Great Extinction, the way Climate Alarmists keep chattering on.
Also kind of a weird because the species is 300,000 years old, not 9,999 or less as "thousands" suggests. Gotta appeal to those Young Earth creationists, I guess?
Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning
Correct, localized heat waves don’t kill the entire species. Just individuals in affected areas.
This type of basic logical error is way too common. Just a complete inability to think critically, and when you point out the error they will literally lack the reading comprehension to grasp it.
It is frequently excused that “the human brain simply isn’t designed to think about other people/large numbers/society/long time scales/things we can’t see/etc”. That is bullshit, we can and do understand such things, through science. The human brain has the specific capacity to conceptualize things through reason based on the phenomena we can observe.
Humans existed for thousands of years without capitalism, but kicking and screaming will be the immediate response to any suggestion we overcome it.
The unwillingness to think about others is a construct, not an inability. I think about how kids hear about something terrible that's taken for granted and how immediately they want it to change.
But then those kids are told it's normal and that it's mean to judge people you know because of it.
So nice to live in a society that is indifferent to human suffering and also trying perfect audio and visual editing.
Also she's right to say people could possibly adapt, but what is that even going to look like? Living in underground tunnels? Actual robot pods from the Matrix?
This journalist has no idea and no one else does either, because the only projections we have say the global average temp will get so high to kill us all.
It’s like saying, “Who cares if your house burns down if you make it out alive?” Um actually, I kinda like my stuff. I don’t want to lose everything for something totally avoidable like not storing a fire extinguisher or using smoke detectors.
Global warming will probably not be the end of life on earth. Probably not even human life. But it has a very real potential for drastically reducing our way of life, even for the billionaires among us. We are facing the metaphorical loss of our house to a fire, to use the earlier analogy.
I suppose it’s possible that humans gradually migrate to the poles. Antarctica is pretty big. But it won’t necessarily be a comfortable or fun experience, if that happens. And it probably wouldn’t happen for a few hundred years at the earliest. On a geological timescale, Earth will recover, the carbon will eventually sequester itself somewhere underground or in the oceans. But the timescales are immense, like on the order of the entire history of Homo sapiens, or longer.
You can think uncritically about the world like this and still get a job raking in 6+ figures lmao
Gotta appreciate how this is playing out exactly like an abusive relationship
No babe, I never made it unbearably hot in the summer, that's just how it's always beenMedia literally going thru the stages of grief publicly over climate change.
✅ Denial
➡ Anger
🟦 Bargaining
🟦 Depression
🟦 Acceptance✅ Denial
➡ Anger
🟦 Bargaining
🟦 Depression🟦 AcceptanceOops humanity was wiped out before the corporate media got to depression.
The libs will waffle back and forth between anger and bargaining. "Here's some good things about our planet turning into a furnace"
Oh phew. Here I was worrying over food shortages, severe weather events, basic exposure leading to death, and a migration crises on a level humanity has never seen. Good to know it’s mental illness.
I think people are so disconnected from food production that they don't understand how extreme weather events can dramatically impact crop growth. You can't just air condition the soybean fields, and you can't eat fossil fuels.
uhhh I get my food from Whole Foods, sweatie, not some dirty field
A couple years back there was a chili sauce shortage because drought and extreme heat were affecting pepper crops. These plants literally evolved in hot climates and even they're struggling.
It got so hot a few years ago in my area that entire onion crops were lost. The soil got so hot it cooked the onions underground.
Also, just because northern latitudes become warmer doesn't mean any of the other ecological conditions are appropriate for your warm climate crops.
I would put all of my money on betting that this idiot lives somewhere that has extremely mild weather and has not experienced wet bulb conditions in her entire life
Went to Stanford, edited at the Orange County Register before moving to the Wall Street Journal.
She also authored an op ed for the WSJ 'asking' if vaccines were causing new COVID variants, and has been on panels with conservatives discussing the future of conservatism.
So she's a privileged toadie whose most pressing personal issue has probably been bitching about how everyone hates conservatives.
sometimes I'm amazed at the dumbass takes mainstream outlets will publish
even if you take what they're saying at face value, "humans can withstand a little heat" it ignores the ecological collapse and destructive weather events that humans certainly cannot withstand
It’s the Wall Street Journal, for one.
But also, these rags all are pay-to-play in some form or another. The quirky libertarian woman opinion writer type (popularized by McArdle, but I’ve seen others) absolutely has Koch brothers / think tank money behind them.
"Although my parents were both conservative, my political beliefs didn’t take shape until college. The overbearing liberal atmosphere at Stanford University and lack of tolerance for alternative views brought out the contrarian in me. I recall being especially horrified by the vicious attacks on supporters of Prop. 8, the California referendum banning same-sex marriage." - on her WSJ profile.
Horrified by attacks on people trying to ban same sex marriage...
“We haven’t gone extinct yet therefore your concerns are invalid” is the kind of argument that works until it doesn’t.
They'll just keep moving the goalposts until it's "The last single-celled organisms will survive the global extinction, therefore your concerns are invalid."
Alarmist stories about weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the left's anxiety and dread
"Someone please explain to me what is weather - they didn't teach me in Hack School"
Actually you're only worried about Covid because you have a social anxiety disorder sweaty
Actually you're only worried about microplastics because you read too much news
Actually you're only worried about politics because you are too online
Actually you're only horrified at the false reality in which you are inescapably enmeshed because you dared to raise your eyes from the material illusion towards the heavens and so met the hateful eyes of the insane demiurge that rules this prison of the flesh.
I am less and less joking when I say /r/UpliftingNews, /r/GetMotivated, and related grindset communities are death cults that deny life itself in favor of some idealized solipsistic power fantasy.
No argument from me. It's profound Pollyanna denialism. I hate when people scold me for just pointing out things that are actually happening. Like yeah, sure, it sucks that Global Warming is going to have horrifying nation-shattering effects now and there's no way for things to be "normal" anymore, but that's not my fault and yelling at me for pointing it out isn't going to fix anything. Nor is being "Hopeful" going to change our course. If they accepted how bad things are maybe they'd stop "Hope"ing and start sharpening their knives.
If only CHUDs didn't beat us to the punch with the redpill, bluepill stuff. Because they are quite literally telling us to take the bluepill...because it's easier.
2025: "Do the simultanious worldwide global crop failures have you down? Just plant a garden!"
i'll take the swatting so you don't have to: this person should be shot in the fucking head
preferably by a climate refugee, but anyone will do as long as their aim is good
anyone will do as long as their aim is good
Personally I'm fine if it takes the shooter a few attempts 🤷
Whoa hey now w-w-w-what about the the but what about civility? I can't believe you're being so mean
does it count as exercising my religious freedoms if i say she should be crucified instead?
I'm calling it, infinite
for every journalist in the west, sorry niche socialist paper journalists you will be a necessary sacrifice to wipe these ghouls off the internet and airwavesTo be fair, most of those "niche socialist papers" are
, so it's not a huge loss anyway.
Yes I agree that the liberal obsession with denying and misconstruing the life destroying harms of climate change is indeed, a real mental disorder.
It is silly to freak out just because it’s 102° F in the Andes in winter, you silly libs
