When in the West people’s children begin dying of the direct and indirect effects of climate change, they won’t blame climate change or even their own inaction — no, they will blame the messengers and those who warned them.
It’s already happening with Greta Thunberg. It’ll happen a lot more. Climate change and the slow apocalypse spawned thereby is not something people can cognitively handle. So they won’t.
If you count the money we spend on private insurance premiums, Americans are already taxed like Europeans, and spend enough to fund a European style-welfare state. Instead, we just get ripped off. https://t.co/3KMkUqjES0
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) September 27, 2019
That’s for all the chuckleheads moaning constantly about “But how will we pay for it?” Stupid-ass, you’re already paying for it, and more, and getting far less for your money than someone French or Swiss or Italian.
How to Develop an Appetite for Insects.
And the propaganda continues. Expect more of this. The progressives* want to convince you to live in pods, eat bugs, not fly or drive anywhere, and live as near to a medieval peasant’s life as possible, to “save the earth.”
*Really, neoliberals, all in service of the rich staying rich.