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Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote
(insideclimatenews.org)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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Of all the Republican insanity, climate denial is the biggest head scratcher for me. It's denying cause and effect. And they need a planet to live on too.
they benefit too much from fossil fuels
Cool. They'll be taking it with them to the grave.
And us with it, but they don’t care because “they got theirs”
imagine a worldview where the most important thing is people respecting you as a man. Rugged jobs like coal mining or oil rig work. Driving heavy duty, loud, smoke spewing trucks or muscle cars. Eating the largest, most expensive meat, to fuel your very important muscles. Proving your worth through hard work instead of smarts. Throw in the gay rights movement, and now trans rights, now they feel like masculinity itself is being threatened. They want to keep eating steaks, they like driving their big truck, they dont want to respect non-masculine peers who dont work as hard as they do. I give you the driving force of rural America, and the wealthy people tapping into it.
I don't disagree per se...but I think the climate change denial has more to do with being anti-democrat/liberal than being a man. Conservative women are also climate change deniers.
Like if you were to ask them if the earth is worth protecting, recycling, blah blah blah, they'd say yes. But as soon as you mention global warming, they say it's woke.
Plus, remediation ought to check all their boxes
— huge business opportunities
— new jobs
— energy independence
— reducing our dependency on Chinese companies
But none of those things are important to Republicans. That's just stuff they say.
Consider Elon Musk. Really. Yeah, he made his first fortune in software, but responding to climate change was what made him one of the wealthiest people in the world. Don’t Conservative worship such rich people? We’re (finally) starting a major transformation in our economy and there is opportunity for other such fortunes to be made. This is Taylor made for Republicans
That’s what I don’t understand, either. Even if they were a totally cynical asshole about it, a Republican should love the idea of getting rich by fleecing progressive “idiots”.
Hell, I’ve imagined designing Trump hats, shirts, and bumper stickers just to make money off his popularity, and then donating to a cause or charity Republicans despise.
It may have the worst ultimate consequences of much of the Republican insanity, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s confusing at all.
Do something for the good of the entire world, or to put some money in the pockets of people who already have more than they can ever spend? Easy choice.
Oh, the entire world can see that we made the bad choice on #1? Sooooo… guess what guys the bad consequences don’t actually exist! :D
And it goes well with a general distrust of highly educated individuals. That is used to dismiss many other facts that they disagree with.
One of the worst parts of them. Among all the other worst parts, naturally.
Their donors are mostly old, rich people. So they don’t care about what happens more than about 10-15 years in the future.