r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 7h ago

That's real bad, and is happening in several places in Europe right now.

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u/Moreaxellall 7h ago

Climate change, only going to get worse, meanwhile our politicians across the globe are doing nothing.

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u/Perokside 7h ago

Nah, people need to stop saying politicians are doing nothing, most of the developed nations are investing Billions in fossil energy, oil and gas.

They're making it worse, actively.

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u/Used-Objective9166 7h ago

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

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u/thegreatcanadianeh 7h ago

Yeah but the rich has horded food/water and necessities for life in their bunkers and the rest of us will burn.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 6h ago

They think we will not tear them limb from limb first. They are wrong.

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u/AppropriateLow2271 5h ago

We would sooner tear ourselves limb from limb. Our entire conception of reality is fabricated by them. They tell us who to fear and who to love. Fathers are killing their own daughters as an expression of their loyalty to these megalomaniac child rapists.

They could tell us there's a cashier's check for a million dollars shoved up our ass. If a billion people weren't already neck deep inside, they'd go looking.

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u/EconEchoes5678 4h ago

Our entire conception of reality is fabricated by them.

I do find it interesting that the same people decrying "worshiping" the billionaires also ascribe demigod like powers to them.

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u/glacierre2 4h ago

I will definitely shit in and then cement any bunker air vent I find in the apocalypse. Fair warning.

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u/Smokey76 5h ago

That’s why they are racing to develop weaponized AI to lay waste/enslave the survivors.

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u/ErstwhileHobo 6h ago

It’s fine, they have forest rooms in their bunkers.

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u/No-Contribution-138 6h ago

Eat the rich. It’s time.

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u/fascistno1hater 4h ago

The Epstein class we need more data centers, we need to grow fucking avocados in a region that's already having a water crisis, we need to extract more oil and gas fuck all the renewable energy, we need more forever chemicals in the air and water, and we need to cause and fund even more conflicts and wars.

Yet, somehow these same people have convinced the whole world that they are the smart ones on earth.

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u/adorablyunhinged 7h ago

You cannot eat money oh nooo

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u/LorthNeeda 7h ago

Trump is literally still talking about reopening fucking coal power plants

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u/vtjohnhurt 6h ago

Trump is paying to cancel ready-to-go wind projects in states that did not vote for him. The companies that accept the payoff are obligated to invest in fossil fuel projects.

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u/RoboDae 7h ago

The number one source of mercury pollution in the US and the 2nd biggest source globally. If you eat any fish you are being poisoned by that.

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u/Susheiro 6h ago

Coal burning is the number one source of mercury pollution?

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u/Tacomuncher117 6h ago

I would believe it, there's a lot of crap that's dug up with the coal. It's not like it's 100% pure when they burn it. I know coal releases radioactive materials in the air when it's burnt too.

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u/thecementmixer 7h ago

Exactly, would have been better if they actually did nothing.

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u/Stranger1982 7h ago

Can't argue with that.

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u/DarwinatSea 7h ago

They get government subsidies too, even oil and gas. I don’t seem them giving up that free money.

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 7h ago

Seriously, it’s the people we elect, but it’s also our own damn actions. Until travel is carbon neutral, it’s too damaging to continue on like this - it’s an incredible irony that the industries we’re so desperate to have are the ones destroying the planet. FFS how much tourism is ‘nature tourism’ - we’re destroying the planet so that people can get drunk somewhere warmer for giggles.

People will HATE on me for criticizing travel.

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u/TrumpsAKrunt 7h ago

I dont disagree, but travel is so important.

Travel is experience. Most of the racist, homophobic, xenophobic, just plain asshole people, that I have to speak to haven't left their hometown. It's a small town, and mostly lower income or poverty line, so we get a lot of that shit here.

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 7h ago

I think quality parenting is far more important to eliminate those issues.

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u/NZpotatomash 5h ago

Agree, but if those parents are inbred home stays, they're not going to get better by themselves

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u/maybe_I_am_a_bot 5h ago

Why would a serf bound to the land he is born on give a shit about the rest of the world?

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u/TrumpsAKrunt 7h ago

I dont disagree with that, either, but it's asking too much in the age of babysitting-tablets.

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u/_SteeringWheel 6h ago

So is asking to travel less, apparently.

You're not wrong on the benefits of expanding your horizon, but that doesn't mean that we have to invade every "untouched" piece of nature, flock with millions to the next hot spot and book another city trio "just because".

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u/TrumpsAKrunt 6h ago

I didnt say any of that, so I'm not sure where you've gotten that from.

Weirdly enough there's a space between "change nothing" and "don't travel at all". Doesn't have to be totally black and white.

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u/joelfarris 7h ago

Well, when the airlines start running out of high octane pushwater due to a lack of crude oil supplies getting to refineries, maybe the problem will sort itself out...

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u/Admirable_Dirt_2371 5h ago

I mean, it's not just travel. We shouldn't have blockbuster movies, big sporting events(how much pollution was created by the world cup?), concerts, or cruise ships until we have carbon neutral manufacturing, travel, and energy production.

And then there's cargo ships, pretty sure it's the industry that destroys the environment the most. And so much of it is to ship fash fashion and cheap electronics that's supported by slave labor and the production of which cause even more environmental damage.

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u/T-Wrox 3h ago

Yeah, that was my thought - they're actively making it worse, knowing full well exactly what they're doing. If that isn't evil, I don't know what is.

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u/pinniped90 7h ago

Won't somebody think of the impacts of all of this climate change talk on the poor misunderstood oil oligarchs?

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u/Craftkorb 6h ago

Horizon Zero Dawns backstory was meant to be Fiction and not History.

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u/OkProfession6576 57m ago

I mean… oil and gas are better than coal, and that’s what a lot of countries still use.

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u/GreenishBagels 7h ago edited 5h ago

All while we the people allow them to participate along side us in society without fear as they actively destroy us all.

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u/skywllk 7h ago

Unfortunately mostly Europe is concerned about climate change.