Yes. Musk will stop believing in global warming because he’s Trump's bitch.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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the only difference between a billionaire who believes in climate change and one who doesn't is that one of them is gonna spend more on a sweet apocalypse bunker with gold plated slurpee machines. neither would do anything about it if it hurt their bottom line.
Can people please stop saying “believe “ in climate change.
You either understand it or you don’t .
Musk will simply change his opinion. He'll come up with some pseudoscientific wording while he does it, and his little minions will gobble it all up and call him a genius. Then they'll start spewing some tired talking point with a Musky spin, and it'll spread like the virus it is.
Also, Musk seems to be relying on not addressing global warming to accelerate his ambition of colonising Mars.
Musk believes in it, but has no interest in ameliorating it. His plan is 'find a new planet'
The problem with people like Musk is that they have this wild abundance state of mind in terms of technological advances to the point that they may be concerned about something, but more convinced that we'll be so advanced that we'll have something to deal with it later, so it becomes some moot point to them, basically a gamble.
"Can't we deal with it in 50-100 years when we'll have even more tools to deal with it?" basically, but yeah if we don't reach that point we're very much fucked
I've heard this called "soft climate denial", and unforntuately it's widespread.
People like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi say that they believe in climate change. But let's imagine that we're roommates and you told me that there's an out of control wildfire a few miles away and the governor has told us all to evacuate. One roommate says that they don't belive it and they're staying. And I say 'Shame on you for denying this! I firmly believe in the wildfire. It's urgent that we act now, which is why I've ordered travel maps on Amazon so we can begin plotting our evacuation route as soon as they arrive.'
Would you characterize this is accepting the crisis, or being in a state of soft denial?
Oh don't worry, Musk will see the light now that he's found his one true god.