• MudMan@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    I did not, in fact, say you were a bot. I did say you sounded like one while implying you’re the product of an attention economy that rewards consistently extreme positions to the point of absurdity.

    Flat earther-adjacent? Yep. Bot? Nope. Actively detrimental to the issue you claim to care about with single-minded obsessiveness? Sadly, yeah.

    Being performatively nihilistic about an issue isn’t the same as being realistic, and being willing to acknowledge positive developments in a bad situation isn’t naive. That’s another side effect of the outrage economy.

    Once again, for those in the back, climate change isn’t something you fix and the transition to a sustainable energy mix isn’t someting you do. This is an ongoing effort that will continue indefinitely, both in mitigating negative effects that have already been triggered and in reducing or eliminating negative effects still in play. Positive developments will be plentiful along the way, even in situations where the overall trend is negative, or not as positive as it should have been. Boiling it down to a good/bad overall choice is downright infantile.