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Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
I am not a climate denier at all. I do believe the planet is warming.
My issue with all of this is that people like me would take this a bit more serious if people like the 44th POTUS didn't fly all the way to Glasgow to deliver a speech on how burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment.
I think change is good. This change is going to be disruptive but good. It's a huge opportunity for new kinds of jobs.
However, I think symbolism matters. Doing COP26 over zoom like the rest of us have been doing meetings the last 18 months would make their pleas more palatable.
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How seriously you take climate change is dependent on the behavior of the POTUS?
The reality of climate change is what it is. It doesn't magically become less serious or consequential just because the POTUS flew to Glasgow.
Look, I get the hypocrisy argument, I also wish he hadn't done that, but the reality of climate change doesn't change just because some politicians do hypocritical things.