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Four kinds of climate clowns 1) deniers, both cranks and illiterates. 2) climate commies, ignorant on climate, loudly complaining about @elonmusk 3) climate hippies, who need "the community" to be the answer 4) climate colonialists, who think bike lanes fix famine and genocide.
All of these people are shit. They don't EVER know basic stats - tons per capita for US or EU or Mexico. They never get $1/day poverty. Opium wars? Belgian Congo? Foxconn suicides? These things mean nothing to them. Even climate commies no know fucking history at all. I despise!
Let me lay this out. 9bn people, with maybe 2-3bn at a decent standard of living. Those people consume 100% of the world's resources. The rest is stolen from nature and the future, like credit card debt. We are going eco-bankrupt. Democracies can't cope with radical CO2 reduction
Climate commies and hippies are mostly like antivaxxers or 5G paranoids. They have a pre-existing superstition they want to support, like doctors are evil, radio is scary magic.

"The community" or "capitalism is to blame."

They know fuck all about climate. No facts, no models.
ALL of the climate clowns hate @elonmusk. Hating Elon Musk is completely predictive of clueless idiocy in climate activists

I finally understand why. Most "climate people" have a cargo cult commie understanding of CO2. They think CO2 is magically emitted by wealth! Not oil/coal!
Options like 80% nuclear don't look real to climate clowns. They see wealth, and assume the magic CO2 is emitted by money.

They can't imagine decarbonising a first world economy

Frankly, neither can I - without massive new tech.

But climate clowns can't reason about technology
This is another marker of Climate Clowns - they don't have a "tech tree" in their head.

No "fixing cars means fixing batteries, and we can't kill oil without fixing cars". Blind to cause-and-effect models.

As useless as taking politics without knowing geography and history.
This total ignorance of technology and basic carbon numeracy leaves climate clowns with nothing to do but try to force you to pretend that whatever "solution" they *do* understand must also be the solution to the climate crisis.

These people are climate cargo cultists. Same idea
If a person can't break down relative emissions for USA, EU and Africa, and briefly discuss lithium mining and EROEI, you can pretty much ignore the rest of what they say.

They don't understand what is happening well enough to have an opinion, like abstinence-only sex educators.
Exterminate climate clowns.

Climate clowns are not "big tent politics" people. They're a squabbling rabble of superstitious savages without a spreadsheet anywhere among them

They don't understand what they are trying to fix. They're as dangerous as bad car mechanics. Ignorance
Basic climate literacy is required to be climate activists.

If you can't answer basic questions about global climate policy, then read stuff, don't act like you are part of the solution when you don't even understand the problem.

Climate clowns poison the solution.
Consciousness has nothing to do with climate change

Psychedelics are cool, but not The Answer. Climate is an engineering problem. It's path dependence and switching costs that determine our humane future

If you don't understand the landscape, you are not an activist, but a fool
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