Saturday, March 7, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 7, 2020

  • How I try to break climate silence by BaerbelW from Skeptical Science. (Note: This German scientist takes us through the many ways climate crisis deniers try to deceive us, and simultaneously promotes critical thinking. But alas, she only devotes two sentences to a claim that "There is also hope: We already have much of the technology we need to solve climate change. We 'just' have to deploy it at scale." And she follows these two sentences by saying "this clear for scientists". But this is not true. Many scientists remain in doubt that we can solve this problem, and some, like McPherson, have already decided that it is too late.)
  • Greta Thunberg | Youth Strike 4 Climate | Bristol, UK featuring Greta from Extinction Rebellion (via YouTube). (Note: She rallies British children to protest the inaction by adults (in the ruling class) who "despite all the beautiful words and promises from elected officials" (and the people who employ them in the capitalist ruling class) about  preventing climate destabilization, but the latter will result in the destruction of the children's futures and they sense that.)
Satirical comedians discover that capitalist controlled elections are corrupt, but they don't connect them to elections held in capitalist nations or nations held by ruling classes of any kind. The result is cynicism. The following two posts illustrate that:
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