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Tickle

(3,078 posts)
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 07:42 AM Sunday

Fossil fuel executive to

be the secretary of energy. Chris Wright. 😂 We are all yoyos, at least I feel like one. Now it's going to be fracking and drilling and drilling and fracking. Gas cars will be so cheap it'll kill EV. There goes the planet

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Fossil fuel executive to (Original Post) Tickle Sunday OP
Well... 2naSalit Sunday #1
The BBC World anchors show very little emotion Mike 03 Sunday #2
We can't change that. But we can and should starve Scrivener7 Sunday #3

Mike 03

(16,835 posts)
2. The BBC World anchors show very little emotion
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 08:30 AM
Sunday

but in the middle of the night this was one of their headlines and you could hear the contempt in the presenter's voice. We will be totally despised by the civilized world, as we ought to be.

Scrivener7

(52,752 posts)
3. We can't change that. But we can and should starve
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 09:14 AM
Sunday

out those who profit from this.

Ditch the giant cars and trucks. They're absurd. They're billboards advertising that you're compensating for something. And that applies to men and women because compensation is not just about tiny dicks. It's about idiotic competition and conspicuously keeping up with Joneses who likely aren't worth the effort.

Take Jimmy Carter's advice. Put on a sweater and turn the heat down.

I have a scheduled trip in a few weeks, but after that, I won't fly anywhere till we get a responsible adult in charge again.

Buy natural fibers. If you need synthetics, buy them second hand. You won't believe what people are practically giving away on ebay.

Ask your local restaurants to offer the old white chinese cardboard containers for takeout. Plastic containers are petroleum, and they're poisoning us.

Use paper bags for garbage. You'll find you have plenty of plastic coming as packaging. Line the bottom of the paper bag with that and it won't leak. I bought a box of plastic bags when I moved into my home 23 years ago. I just used the last one last month.

We can't change them. But we can take responsibility for our own actions.

And I know every time someone suggests we don't patronize them as they poison us and ruin our lives, someone else argues that we can't and shouldn't even try. And that seems enough to make us grumble and change nothing.

But the obvious fact is that we CAN starve them and we MUST.

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