• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    It is supposed to believe that climate change is a … scam?!

    You can believe that climate change is not real, but a “scam”, how does that even work?

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      11 months ago

      There’s a myth that climate scientists made the whole thing up to be able to publish papers and make their careers without producing anything of value. Because, you know, climate science is a glamorous and lucrative career where no one will ever examine your work closely or check it independently.

      There are think tanks that specifically come up with these myths to be vaguely plausible and then the good ones get distributed deliberately because people are making billions of dollars every year that action gets delayed. There’s a bunch of them. On the target audience they work quite well. I actually had someone whose family member died of Covid tell me that his brother-in-law didn’t really die of Covid, he died of something else, because it’s all overblown and the hospitals are doing a similar scam to this myth (i.e. making it out as a bigger deal than it needs to be.)

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      11 months ago

      They’re trying to use the climate to get the dang change from our pockets!!!

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      11 months ago

      I’ve def seen conservative talking points about climate change being a myth sold by china to make american manufacturing and such noncompetitive.