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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's the point of teaching children to deny climate change? So that they won't go and find a solution? Are they trying to eliminate human beings?

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let me guess....big oil is now lobbying for changes in our education so they can keep making money and ruining the planet

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what good is money for if we all die

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The world isn't going to die overnight, it's going to happen slowly, and it's already started. Failed crops, mass migration, water shortages, etc. The rich need to maintain the ability to influence policies like immigration to stretch out their miserable existance.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The rich think they'll live in opulent bunkers.

It doesn't seem to occur to them that they'll be killed and eaten by their own security guards, once the collapse of civilization renders their money moot.

But we will all be dead by then.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I believe that they are direct funders of PragerU actually yes.

[–] RedditReject@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

A lot of these religious folks think the apocalypse can't get here great enough, so they are helping

Teach 'em young to get more votes. Republicans have been playing the long game for generations now.