I’m a teacher. I don’t know how they pull this of - but even kids from poorer families tend to carry some very expensive gadgets around all day. Stuff I wouldn’t afford with my 4k salary because it would be completely unreasonable.
They do.
That said, the German government wants to get rid of renewables too.
Because they’re maniacs feasting on and being pulled out of Mango Mussolinis Arsehole.
With our demographics though it’s the government that was to be expected and - if there’s no miracle waiting around the corner - might be the best government for many years to come. I’m so sick of this shit.
could we just like - tactically nuke them?
Historically it‘s exactly that incompatibility of both concepts that created a tension from which certain progress has been born. It‘s fundamental to our evolution as societies. It‘s only times when extremism takes over that either becomes destructive. And it doesn‘t really matter on which side you look - Religion only has a longer record of precedent.
Much of the hatred we saw throught the 19th and 20th centuries though was based on a fundamentally materialist framework. Nazis really thought they were up to something, they could scientifically prove their point and offer the „pragmatic“ solution. To themselves they were utilitarian. Racist ideology does the same. In hindsight it‘s all a big fuss - a net of false assumptions, flawed methodology and manifestation of biases. For the people living during the time it was science.
You see, my point is: It‘s not so much about religion or science, it‘s about trying to control narratives - to utilize them, to weaponize them against deviants. Science has learnt from that - at least a big part of it - even some religious institutions learnt from it. But that doesn‘t stop people from doing what they feel is their nature.
Love each other. Love god. Both are about loving God‘s creation - if you‘re into that kind of stuff.
That‘s the main quest in christianity - and as far as I‘m aware in all other religions. So „dismissing Climate change concerns“ because you don‘t want to trust people who are knowledgable about the matter, at least from my agnostic point of view, is about as contrary to those beliefs as it can get. Because you‘re so superstitious that you can‘t acknowledge the fact you might be biased, you might be uninformed, you don‘t understand, that you simply assume everyone else must be stupid or evil.
That guy they pretend to love so much is said to have said: „ Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?“.
But they comfortably leave out all the parts in the Bible that are purely about self-reflection, self-awareness and self-knowledge.
I live close to the french border and while it’s really bad here - our forests already switched to autumn mode due to heat stress and dryness - it’s much, much worse once you drive around an hour west.
unsettling is an understatement. I get the feeling people are avoiding the topic - not denying - but avoiding it, so they don’t have switch into full panic mode.