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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?
Let me guess....big oil is now lobbying for changes in our education so they can keep making money and ruining the planet
what good is money for if we all die
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.
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.
I believe that they are direct funders of PragerU actually yes.
A lot of these religious folks think the apocalypse can't get here great enough, so they are helping
doesn't make a lot of sense either - like, they're going to Heaven when they die or.if the rapture happens, so what's the rush?
Fundies often expect the world to end any moment now and for Supply-Side Jesus to further comfort the comforted and to send the afflicted to further affliction.
Calvinism, in all its spinoffs, is a fuck.
At this point I think there might just be an element of pure reaction and contrarianism involved. Dying's worth it as long as you own the commie nazi libs or whatever
Yeah I'm seeing this at the level of my provincial government (Alberta) all green energy projects being indefinitely canceled/ not being approved in favor of oil and gas based power. Ostensibly to protect jobs but the rhetoric used about it clearly just being backlash against the commie libs (and Turdeau of course)
Teach 'em young to get more votes. Republicans have been playing the long game for generations now.