David HoAug 18, 2024

Climate deniers say that climate change is a hoax because they heard that acid rain was a problem and nothing ever came of it.

We literally had a major government program to fix the problem!

https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/acid-rain-program

Acid Rain Program | US EPA

View an overview of the Acid Rain Program, including information on the program's SO2 and NOx reductions.

US EPA
Show threadÁngela Stella MatutinaAug 18, 2024

@davidho

There's the problem with fixing things. Seen it happen with the ozone layer depletion and with Y2K. When things go according to plan we end up breeding denialism.

Show threadJohn Gordon
@angelastella @davidho We need to go back in time and sabotage the Y2K effort to save humanity from climate disaster.
Aug 18, 2024 at 8:26pmWeb
Show threadÁngela Stella MatutinaAug 19, 2024

@jgordon @davidho

Yeah, we need to make these programmers go all John Galt on the banks and airlines.

(That was sarcasm.)