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"Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools(www.scientificamerican.com)

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r3xus@lemmy.sdf.org
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The thing is Mother Nature does not care about the American political and social divide. I just wonder how future generations are going to view us, how our prevalent negligence for the planet is going to be portrayed?

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RichardAPI@feddit.nl
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Luckily the world is bigger than the US/Florida

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nxdefiant@startrek.website
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But is it big enough to survive US/Florida

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r3xus@lemmy.sdf.org
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I hope you are right, but I have my doubts, people in Eastern Europe, for example, share the scepticism and outright denial presented in the article above without having Ron DeSantis.

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Maestro@kbin.social
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Unfortunately the US has a tendency to export their particular brand of crazy to the rest of the world

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explodicle@local106.com
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In our old age, Millennials and Zoomers will envy the respect the Baby Boomers are given today. We’ll say “I was one of the good ones, I voted against this!”

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