He’s partly right. A lot of people think Net Zero means doing something about carbon emissions when it really means paying someone to pretend your doing something about emissions
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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Hey! I’ll have you know that I saved the same forest in Cameroon twelve times last year. Maybe you should try doing something for a change. /s
Razor sharp joke.
He’s partly right
Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day.
Once if you use the 24h format
You thinking cap and trade?
"First off, I am very smart, maybe the smartest. My uncle was a genius so that makes me a double genius. Kammock Hairsama isn't smart, how could she be? She isn't even white. I am white always have been. That bitch Kamala, she is Indian, at least that's what she says, but I've never seen her at a Powwow, have you? Probably not because now she says she is black. I haven't seen her eat fried chicken. I don't know what she is maybe no one knows I've heard people say that. I don't know, people say Mr. President you are so smart why don't you stop the carbon thing with the air like you stopped wildfires by raking the forest? I say you can't do that, no one can because net zero is fake news. No one has seen a net zero, have you, let me tell you net zero...not a thing. How could you have a net that is zero, nets need to catch things most nets are something like net 400, lots of good nets, great nets maybe even the greatest nets here. No nets zero though no one knows, I don't know." - Donald "I'm Worth 2 Packs of Kools in Prison" Trump
I was wondering if he actually admitted not knowing about something, which would have been a first. But really, it's just a side effect of him trying to ridicule and downplay the importance of countering climate change. He essentially said that the economy was more important.
This person is fucking vile.
It's both. He obviously doesn't understand it, but that's not stopping him from ridiculing it.
Seeing his speech patterns in print remind a lot of the homeless guy on the downtown street corner yelling at a mailbox. God he's a pathetic human
He thinks an intellectual is someone talking about actual problems instead of attacking the opponent? Have I got that right? That's hilarious. Also weird. And I don't think his base will be thrilled to be called intellectual after being primed to see that as an insult for literally decades.
No one listening to him cares what net zero emissions is. He endorses policies leading us away from net zero. He doesn't give a shit.