r/dankmemes 1d ago

Political meme?

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u/party_in_my_head 1d ago

did you know that children born 2020 and after have a 0% chance of having a comfortable life after the age of 70 given the current policies in the world? Now you do.

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u/ProfessionalCreme119 1d ago

In 1998 we were told by 2025 that most people would be wearing some sort of ozone filtering respirator and large chucks of Florida would be permanently submerged.

Me waiting for my ozone mask like.....

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u/BayTranscendentalist 1d ago

Wow, turns out we don’t have to do this because politicians actually decided to do something about it! Who could’ve known???

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u/NewSauerKraus 1d ago

And no serious person ever made those claims anyways lmao.

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u/BayTranscendentalist 1d ago

The ozone layer stuff was a legitimate concern but it was relatively easy to solve since it was proven what damaged it

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u/NewSauerKraus 1d ago

The ozone thing was a lack of ozone in the atmosphere. Not so much that you would need a respirator to prevent inhaling it. The commenter above seems to have mixed up conspiracy theorists with reasonable people.

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u/ProfessionalCreme119 1d ago

No it was extremist BS. Because when you look at the studies and tests that were being done back then they don't line up with what was being repeated to the public

Back then they had the mentality that if they presented the worst case scenario it would result in scaring people into action. This was before we had such precise models and simulators as we do today.

Unfortunately them doing that for so long made people not believe them anymore. Once people started to realize that they were exaggerating and being over the top..

And now that they're trying to be more honest today and present more factual information related to our climate and weather so many people don't believe them. Because they lied and exaggerated about their findings in the past.

This is why so many people over the age of 50 just don't buy into climate change science and warnings. Because most of their lives it was just exaggerations and over the top findings presented to the public as scientific fact.

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u/wickwack246 1d ago

lololol when were people, on any meaningful scale, scared into action?

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u/ProfessionalCreme119 1d ago

Ever hear of World War II? I mean that's just the easiest one to come up with. Enough so to where your questions shouldn't even have been asked because you should automatically know that was an

You want more? I mean Google could solve this problem for you but I guess I can do your research for you if you want.....

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u/wickwack246 1d ago

your brain isn’t working right