Bit idea: Convincing evangelicals that climate change has nothing to do with science and is actually God’s punishment for burning fossil fuels

Not to make the hurricane in Florida about my comfortable dumbass up here in the northeast but holy shit I thought I was immunized to getting mad when it comes to climate change.

I've been into climate science and trying to fight climate change since I was like 10 and wanted there to continue to be winter where I live. Went to college for an engineering degree with a minor in sustainable energy systems that included lots of climate research and policy investigation.

I thought I had the callouses to deal with chuds saying climate change isn't real and all that bulshit.

But now, 20 years later when everything has been prepgressing exactly like every climate scientist has said it would, we've totally skipped the "doing anything about it" phase and have moved to the blame game.

Watching Republicans try to blame fucking ANYBODY ELSE for the effects of climate change and then going even farther and just making up shit about NOAA, FEMA, and HARP and blaming fuck8ng anybody but themselves is going to give ma an aneurism.

Like it'd be none thing I'd they were just making shit uo, I get that. Bit the narrative is actually fining traction.

Like imagine if somebody came into your house, ripped out a perfectly funtional sprinkler system, dumped gasoline everywhere, told me I wanst allowed to take garbage out of my house, clean my lint traps, or clean crosote out of my chimney and then started a fore and locked all the doors from the outside.

And as I was banging on the windows rhe person, watching from outside with a smug smile on his face, said "I heard the person who built your house built it so that it would burn down completely on its own after 10 years."

And I fucking believed them.

Asking "is climate change real and manmade" and then dumping everybody who says no into a mass grave would be the greatest leap forward humanity has ever experienced.

🤚🏿 I am.

Buckfast gets you fucked fast!

"is the 2024 hurricane season a dud?"

People who say this in late August/early September have no idea how the hurricane season works.

Good. I really have run out of sympathy living in one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the world electing governments that outlaw using the word climate change.

I understand there's lots of non dash there who are suffering unfairly, but the state is enthusiastically clear cutting mangroves, the naturally occurring thing that solves this problem, to build new developments in the path of Hurricanes.

Maybe Florida literally becoming uninhabitable within a person's lifetime as a direct result of their actions and beliefs will actually be an effective cautionary tale.

Either that or "the jews control the weather" will be annoffical part of the 2028 republican platform.

Currently unable to evacuate in the Tampa area. Whenever we get internet back I'll make a post on here maybe with pictures and shit.

Also, the people on the gulf here: St Pete Beach, Madeira, Treasure Island.... they still have boats in their lawns from Helene. There just hasn't been time to clean them up yet. There is a huge pile of lawn debris in front of every house in the neighborhood I live in because there has been no pickup in two weeks (normal garbage was picked up). I might drag the completely full recycling bins into the laundry room late tonight as that will all be projectiles if I don't. Might dump the recycling bins in the big dumpster (which is super heavy) because they are full and they'll spill over and turn all the glass into projectiles and shit...