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Opinion: We need climate action, not space tourism
Deutsche Welle ^ | 07.20.2021 | Sonya Angelica Diehn

Posted on 07/20/2021 9:51:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai

I care about the future; therefore, I care about the climate. I belong to the vast majority of global citizens who, as poll after poll show, are concerned about the direction the planet is heading and understand the urgency and existential nature of the impending climate emergency. The recent catastropic flooding in central Europe and extreme high temperatures in North America are just a few symptoms of this.

So in my family, we do something about it. We scrimp and save on our carbon budget: we walk or ride bikes instead of driving our car; we eat dramatically less meat than the average family in industrialized countries; we skip that trans-Atlantic trip even if we really want it; we make sure we’re not wasting food and we also compost our scraps.

And then some filthy rich ***hole blasts into space, just for fun.

That’s incredibly selfish, isn’t it?

And it really devaluates our efforts to protect the climate — both morally and materially. […]

Let’s take Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight on July 11. For a suborbital journey of about 100 miles (160 kilometers), the company said the carbon dioxide emissions released were roughly equal to a round-trip trans-Atlantic passenger jet flight. Based on publicly available information, a trip from London to New York City releases about 1.24 metric tons of CO2. To put it another way, that 1½-hour jaunt into space was equivalent to about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) of driving an average passenger car. …

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Hobbies; UFO's; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; agwhoax; agwscam; bezos; branson; climatechange; climatechangehoax; climatecretins; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globullwarming; hoax; musk; scam; scientism; spacetourism
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To: Organic Panic

Ahh, beat me to it.

Then there’s also this classic:

The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8


41 posted on 07/20/2021 11:18:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Opinion: This person obviously has been living under a rock as they have not noticed all of the changes that have been made over the years in effort to protect the environment.


42 posted on 07/20/2021 11:23:20 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Olog-hai

Woman needs to lighten up and get a life.


43 posted on 07/20/2021 11:23:54 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative. .)
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To: Olog-hai
"We scrimp and save on our carbon budget.."

Appreciate it.

That much more for we non-believers in climate catastrophe.

44 posted on 07/20/2021 11:24:18 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Olog-hai

That lady’s eating more than just bugs!


45 posted on 07/20/2021 11:24:37 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Olog-hai

She has a thumb for a head.


46 posted on 07/20/2021 11:25:00 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Olog-hai

Another thing this crazy woman doesn’t pat attention to is how much that “filthy rich a**hole” donated to environmental causes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/16/bezos-climate-grants/


47 posted on 07/20/2021 11:26:49 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Olog-hai
"I care about the climate. I belong to the vast majority of global citizens who, as poll after poll show...."


48 posted on 07/20/2021 11:44:48 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Sheep are more intelligent.


49 posted on 07/20/2021 11:48:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SkyDancer

“if those science people can come up with how to stop volcano’s from going blooie”

Hmm, maybe we just have to start throwing virgins into them again...


50 posted on 07/20/2021 11:52:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Pollard

The joke’s on them. Anywhere we flee to, we’ll be bringing the malignant virus of humanity with us.


51 posted on 07/20/2021 11:57:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: The Great RJ

“the elites will still have their SUVs, live in lavish homes and dine on the best food…”

Until they wake up and realize they’ve turned the entire world into South Africa and there is no place to escape the mob...


52 posted on 07/20/2021 12:12:45 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Organic Panic

Bezos has not made orbit yet, but is given a contract for a nuclear propulsion system. How does this make any sense except to funnel pork to his partners Boeing and so forth?


53 posted on 07/20/2021 12:30:23 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t care if some rich a-hat blasts himself into space but I do care if some rich a-hat orders me to do whatever.


54 posted on 07/20/2021 2:34:45 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Olog-hai

My answer is to mount a huge rocket on the Earth and use it to push us further away from the sun. Global Warming solved!

/s


55 posted on 07/20/2021 4:15:03 PM PDT by jonrick46 (```````)
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To: Olog-hai

Gretta T-berg in a couple of decades!


56 posted on 07/20/2021 4:15:19 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Boogieman
"Hmm, maybe we just have to start throwing virgins into them again..."

Won't find any in liberalmania.

57 posted on 07/20/2021 6:07:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Olog-hai

Not a single warmist prediction for the 2000’s has come true.


58 posted on 07/20/2021 6:10:22 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

Oh, you know the drill: any weather disaster is “proof”, from Hurricane Katrina to the floods in Belgium and Germany . . . shows how disgusting they are, like when the left also uses shooting victims to push gun control.


59 posted on 07/20/2021 6:24:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

And then some filthy rich ***hole blasts into space, just for fun.

That’s incredibly selfish, isn’t it?

No. It isn’t. What it is: “none of your damn business”.

What she really means is give the money to me.


60 posted on 07/22/2021 1:53:19 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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