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Hope and optimism from the climate alarmist crowd? We’ve been told since Al Gore that the world should have already ended. That people want to take us back to the 1800s in transport tech isn’t very optimistic to me. People would rather have a train than airplanes. People would rather ride a bike in crappy weather than a comfortable car. People would rather we set our thermostats to 78 degrees than enjoy whatever temperatures we want in our house. There are people exciting about eating bugs because apparently cows are going to make the planet explode.

Not much hope and optimism these days when the sky is perpetually falling.




That's rich considering we just set a global record for highest average temperature ever recorded. Have you watched the record flooding recently?

Just because your personal personal upper class bubble world hasn't ended yet, doesn't mean people's lives aren't being upended by climate change. How selfish of you.

(and trains are infinitely better than airplanes for short (<300) mile trips. regular schedules, less expensive tickets, no baggage checking and getting lost, no endless and invasive security procedures? yes please.)


> How selfish of you.

Heh one person berating the op for not being optimistic enough and another berating them for not being doom/gloom enough. What a perfect example of social media “engagement”.




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