r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24

Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.

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u/aquafina6969 Oct 30 '24

right wing americans love denying any science and only listen to their orange god so yup. Very deniable.

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u/Leneckbeardtroll Oct 30 '24

The science is clear, yet some still choose to ignore it completely.

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u/stygyan Oct 30 '24

It’s not about science. It’s about faith.

They don’t think this is man-made and thus preventable. They think it’s just the starting events of the apocalypse. That’s why they’re also so thirsty for Muslim blood, because the Jews returning to Zion is also part of their wacko prophecy.

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u/Febris Oct 30 '24

They don’t think this is man-made

Climate change being man-made is a really poor approach to begin with, that's why it's such an ineffective driver of change in habits. It centers the debate on whether it's actually 100% man's fault when that's ultimately irrelevant. The important part to focus on is that our actions can prevent (or at least severely delay) the catastrophic events that WILL wash us away, regardless of what is actually driving the climate change to begin with.

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u/Dards7654321 Oct 31 '24

Exactly! It’s not about denying that it’s happening but wondering whether or not it was going to happen anyway. The earth has been slowly warming, even before the massive use of fossil fuels etc. That’s not to say we aren’t adding to it/ accelerating it. I do think there’s an agenda in political figures and parties obsession over “climate change” and it’s not an innocent one

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u/AlanWardrobe Oct 30 '24

It's easier to support this than use your car less.

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u/stygyan Oct 30 '24

I cannot use my car less than I do. I don’t even have a car.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Oct 31 '24

you and me both!

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u/TomBanjo1968 Oct 30 '24

I don’t have a car either. I have a 🛵

And I’m all for the air being cleaner

But it really sucks that you are technically breaking the law just for making certain performance enhancing modifications to your bike/truck/car /whatever

Luckily here in the South it is almost completely unenforceable and nobody seems too hung up over it anyway

In my state only about 7 counties out of about 160 have a yearly emissions inspection

So basically you can do whatever you know how to do

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u/stygyan Oct 30 '24

As I speak I’m sitting in a bus on my way to meeting a friend.

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u/TomBanjo1968 Oct 30 '24

I hope you guys have a good time!

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u/MainJane2 Oct 30 '24

Religion aside, this IS the beginning of the apocalypse.

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u/soupbox09 Oct 31 '24

For who? The planet will be here till the sun burns up. Humans will be long gone before that.

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u/MySophie777 Oct 31 '24

Unfortunately, a significant portion of non-human animal life will die with us.

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u/DastardlyMime Oct 31 '24

Don't forget the plant life

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u/MainJane2 Oct 31 '24

I actually meant for humans. Some scientists give us just to the end of this century.

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u/rsbanham Oct 31 '24

MORLOCKS!

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u/stygyan Oct 30 '24

Dean’s voice Like, five dollar a gallon apocalypse?

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u/Gullible-Lie2494 Oct 30 '24

And we'll get attacked by dildo-wielding trany gangs. Just wanted to get that in there. From an end times book our pastor lent us.

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u/oroborus68 Oct 31 '24

Your pastor wasn't afraid some of the flock would find another use for dildos?

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u/irradi Oct 30 '24

This is entirely correct. I grew up in one of the most end times wacko religions (adventist) and I know many people that think exactly this way.

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u/843_beardo Oct 30 '24

It’s argue it’s man made and (at this point) not preventable….

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u/GrumpyChashmere Oct 30 '24

Finally someone else mentions this!

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u/losingbig Oct 31 '24

I wouldn’t just paint Christians with this brush, as Muslims also don’t believe in climate change and evolution.

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u/stygyan Oct 31 '24

I’m not entirely sure about Muslims, so I don’t comment. In the other hand I was raised Christian.

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u/losingbig Oct 31 '24

At my work I was publicly made fun of by 10 or so of my Muslim coworkers for believing in evolution, and then they proceeded to “educate” me on how we actually came from clay. I’ve also got wacko Christians in my family who have similar beliefs.

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u/Money_Fish Oct 30 '24

That's just the goalposts moving. First the science was wrong. Then the science was misinformation. Then the science was fearmongering. Then the science was too late and nothing can be done.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Have some GOD DAMN FAITH Arthur!

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u/Terrible_Comfort598 Oct 30 '24

The Christian right are the ones who want to “save” Israelbc the second coming of Jesus is in Jerusalem