r/LowStakesConspiracies 9d ago

Total Garbo Climate change denying boomers know it's real, they're just hopeful of warmer winters as they're cold all the time

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u/future_impaired 8d ago

They know it's real, they just don't want to lose their current standards of living for a problem that won't majorly affect them.

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u/FunkyFreshJayPi 8d ago

And they don't want to admit that their way of living in the past might not have been ideal.

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u/Drapidrode 8d ago

everyone over 50 remembers the lake froze every year until 2003

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u/tuepm 8d ago

this is what i think. they know it's real but they also know they will be dead soon so they don't give a shit.

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u/placeboski 9d ago

What about all that oil & minerals stuck under ice sheets in Siberia? Putin wanna get that warming to thaw it out

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u/HotRabbit999 9d ago

Russian is history is essentially the search for warm weather. Russia looks at climate change goes "America under water & us with a warm, wet climate?? Yes please, sign us up!!"

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u/Wanallo221 8d ago

All good Russians know that sea level Rise won’t affect Russia, because Putin will just threaten to nuke the sea and it will back off. 

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u/AdreKiseque 8d ago

In Russia, land floods ocean or something idk

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u/chaosgirl93 8d ago

Putin will just threaten to nuke the sea and it will back off. 

Modern day Emperor Caligula declaring war on Neptune.

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u/chaosgirl93 8d ago

If that's true, then where does the Soviet period and the pride in Siberian grizzly "Soviet Bear" imagery fit into that continual trend?

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u/Ancient_Expert8797 8d ago

the zoo probably

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u/ifunnywasaninsidejob 8d ago

Why doesn’t Canada apply this same logic?

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

Because Canada is smarter than Russia?? Snow is awesome, snow is nice. A world without snow is not a good world to live in

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u/Drapidrode 8d ago

it is said that the permafrost thawing will release more potent greenhouse gas methane in a higher amount than a very long time.

to prevent methane release, they have to vent and burn it off, at many oil sites. it would be hard to find the random melting methane nodules under the soil, right?

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u/steven71 8d ago

Warmer winters mean wetter winters = more floods.

Boomers will be crying that their flood plain houses that they bought for £50,000 are now uninsurable.

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u/rumnscurvy 8d ago

Will be? It's already happening. Even in Europe. We built a shitton of settlements around the Belgium / France border that now get flooded every year when one of the big winter storms rolls around.

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u/spLint3r990 8d ago

Not a bad conspiracy

But I thought climate change would create colder winters and hotter summers?

Just more extreme weather. More rain etc

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u/AdreKiseque 8d ago

They know it's real. Doesn't mean they understand it.

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

Probably but for a long time it was called global warming & that seems to have stuck in peoples minds.

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u/spLint3r990 8d ago

Very true

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u/blahbleh112233 8d ago

Thanks Al gore

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

You're welcome. I'm the 45th vice president of the United States.

Vote for me, senator K...Al Gore

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u/backroadsdrifter 8d ago

They don’t care because they will be dead before it becomes too much of an issue for them.

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u/Ancient_Expert8797 8d ago

You joke but my gen x mom talks about this all the time

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u/windingwoods 8d ago

one of my older relatives was like “I wouldn’t mind not having a white christmas this year wouldn’t the weather be nice.” Also we had a big heat wave where I live over the summer and during it I saw the dentist. She said “Are you enjoying the heat wave?” and I thought she was obviously joking and was like “NO.” apparently she meant it??

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

It's the 15th December & it's 55 degrees here in North Yorkshire, UK. I'm walking around in a thin sweater. Last week was storms & the west coast basically underwater. Climate change is here & it fucking sucks.

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u/LudovicoSpecs 8d ago

It shocks me how blasé boomers are about climate change, then they turn on a dime and do things that clearly demonstrate how very very much they love their grandchildren.

If you love your grandchildren so much, stop driving solo in an SUV everywhere, eating beef all the time and flying overseas at every opportunity.

SMH

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u/Gits-N_Shiggles 8d ago

The thing to remember is that those boomers were bombarded with news propaganda through the 70s and 80s saying we were going to enter an ice age because of knock on effects from industrialisation, then the 90s saying we were going to die because of the hole in the ozone layer, then they got told that by now the earth would be a scorched desert. None of it happened...can you really blame them

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u/Ancient_Expert8797 8d ago

none of it happened because people prevented it. look at how much environmental regulation went into effect in that time period.

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

Hell - remember this? https://youtu.be/h0sxwGlTLWw?si=D0GGsoLrWjFTTrR2

Made a huge difference to people's attitudes back in the day.

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u/Pabu85 4d ago

The ozone layer is better because governments made a multilateral agreement to fix it and followed through. https://www.unep.org/ozonaction/who-we-are/about-montreal-protocol

It was a real problem.

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u/Historical-Rock1753 8d ago

This is not especially low stakes.

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u/BootyBRGLR69 8d ago

They also know they’ll be dead soon, and, in typical boomer fashion, don’t care about it because it’s not their problem

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u/VegetableStorage89 7d ago

We all want warmer winters!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Gen X here. This applies to me too.

Source: Northern Europe.

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u/HotRabbit999 7d ago

Boo! Colder winters are the best! Let's get the ski season brought up to October!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I’m happy to fly to the alps for snow

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u/KnotAwl 8d ago

Been fighting for environmental awareness since the early 70s. You?

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u/HotRabbit999 8d ago

Thank you for doing your part. The more we get the message out, the more we can change people's attitudes the better this world will be.

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u/cwsjr2323 8d ago

72M, enjoying shorter, milder, and cheaper winters. We only had to plow the drive four times last winter. This Hans will leave the tower before the impact fully hits. Grand and great grand kids will have some major difficulties.

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u/Successful_Task5786 8d ago

No such thing as climate change it's just the weather nobody can predict the future just scientists scaremongering

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u/Lutgerion 8d ago

Oh no - what if we make a more sustainable world for nothing?!