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[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 57 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I've tried having this same conversation with my mum multiple times and she keeps saying that there has been no meaningful increase in temperatures in her lifetime and I'm just thinking what are you talking about?! I just don't understand what they stand to lose by admitting that humans have demonstrably increased the global temperatures.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Some level of personal guilt for continuing to exist in a system where fossil fuels are burned on their behalf and we often need to burn them ourselves to live a nornal life because the alternatives may barely exist. For example see DEI bike lanes in the states and the banning of them in ontario in canada thus promoting more car use and discourage/making it more dangerous to bike.

I just don’t understand what they stand to lose by admitting that humans have demonstrably increased the global temperatures.

Cars.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah, we didn't have fire season out here when i was growing up. we used to call it summer.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Europe somewhere? Like apparently Europe has California wildfires everywhere now. WTF.

yeah those "california wildfires" didn't take over all of the pacific northwest for five months back when i was little. now they do. congratulations, Europe! all that coal and oil all y'all burned for your exclusive benefit, now you get the fires too!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think it's sunk cost. It's too late for them to admit that they were wrong because now it's too late to do anything. And admitting they were wrong this whole time would mean that there was time to do something and they squandered it to the detriment of not only their own descendants, but for literally every human on the planet.

Their ego will not allow it.