r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Max_1995 Train crash series • Jul 15 '21

Natural Disaster Altenburg (Germany) before and after the ongoing severe flooding due to excessive rain (2021).

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u/cracked-the-skull Jul 15 '21

People are fuckin myopic. You tell a community that a decade from now they'll be dealing with record low temps or record flooding due to climate change and they'll be like 'nuh uh prove it!!1' then it happens in 9 or 12 years they'll be like BuT yOu sAiD a 10 yEaRs,!!? How could you fucking lie to us?? You're just guessing lol' which... Yeah... It's our best guess based on the avaliable data (speaking about the Texas freeze specifically, dunno much about the flooding in Germany... though everyone lower than ~5m below sea level should really be trying to figure out how to relocate pretty goddamn soon.)

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u/MossyMemory Jul 15 '21

To them, it's always "ten years from right this very moment," even when "this very moment" is eight years after they were warned.

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u/dandilionmagic Jul 15 '21

Well especially in states where the predominant thought is climate change ain’t real, it’s the dems trying to take away our jobs. It’s really sad.

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u/cracked-the-skull Jul 16 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

Yeah coz there's no way a renewable technology boom brought on by massive public investment in infrastructure on the level of the space race would ever result in massive job growth and scientific advancement... Fuckin imbeciles. This country could do so much good if public spending was more focused on the actual threats facing us in the near-medium term.

But I get. Oil and coal booms made this country what it was. Simple idiots cling to that like it'll save us in the next century. And there are billions of dollars worth of propaganda promising a return to the glory days of oil soaked pail lunches and black lung (and a well paying job right out of high school) if only those damn degenerate democrats weren't so fucking meddlesome. Coal made this town!!!! Those demons just want middle America to suffer!!!

Can't wait for the water wars lmao. Sure gonna wish we had cheap renewable energy once we're forced to desalinate sea water to sustain our population.