Christiaanistan wrote:Is there any reason that I ought to give a shit instead of just making fun of them? I'd be glad to test my blood against theirs, and let's see who lasts longer in a climatological crisis. It's fucking ignorant as hell to ignore the advice of people who are highly trained to study the subject matter and do it for a living, and if that much of our population really doesn't care, then I have no pity for them at all.The Serbian Empire wrote:The problem is 58% of citizens believe it's a ploy to increase their taxes even if they believe global warming is man-made.
It doesn't matter if it was just a few people, but there's so many of them that they could turn conservative voting if it came to preventing their taxes from going up. People hate higher taxes outside of the tax collectors and wealth redistributionists.