Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials
etherphon@midwest.social 1 week agoImagine trying to stop the hole in the ozone today. We’d have people spraying CFCs in the air just to spite the effort.
Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials
etherphon@midwest.social 1 week agoImagine trying to stop the hole in the ozone today. We’d have people spraying CFCs in the air just to spite the effort.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As someone just old enough to remember, we did have that with CFCs. Might not have been super mainstream, and nobody who would have done it out of spite really had the disposable income to actually do it.
I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian “cult” and I remember the adults around me “joking” about it all the time. I remember a Missionary to northern Canada visiting our church (in rural America) to try to raise support talking about the temperatures and joking that it’s so cold that he wanted to stand outside with an aerosol can in each hand to try to bring on some global warming, and that getting a laugh from the congregation. You might think that maybe it was a “harmless” joke that maybe as a child I didn’t pick up on the sarcasm, but there were absolutely adults there who fully believed that there was nothing humans could do to damage the earth, because God takes care of it. “And how dare the government and these evolutionists try to tell us how to live.”