This is EXACTLY the pattern I have seen in the comments here. The second panel sometimes comes out as “it’s a good thing!” The third is a classic denialist tactic of “it’s not our fault!” The fourth is abandoning responsibility, sometimes stated more firmly (as one person did within the past couple of weeks) as “we can’t change the climate” which is hilarious since we made the problem in the first place! Finally, it’s the “cost too much” – as if wiping out our soi-disant civilization isn’t a MASSIVE cost. Just look at what the Superstorm did to New York, or what Hurricane Andrew did to New Orleans, and multiply that over and over again – not to mention climactic shifts altering fertile regions, which can have HUGE geopolitical effects. (Historical case in point to avoid current politics: the Medieval Warm Period led to overpopulation in Scandinavia, which led to the Viking age, which had any number of impacts on countries all over the world, from the Varangian Guard in Constantinople to the Norman Conquest [William the Conquerer was a “Frenchified Viking,” as one writer put it].)
It’s sad, really, how much work they put into not seeing what is right in front of them. Why not put just a little of that work into making it better?
This is EXACTLY the pattern I have seen in the comments here. The second panel sometimes comes out as “it’s a good thing!” The third is a classic denialist tactic of “it’s not our fault!” The fourth is abandoning responsibility, sometimes stated more firmly (as one person did within the past couple of weeks) as “we can’t change the climate” which is hilarious since we made the problem in the first place! Finally, it’s the “cost too much” – as if wiping out our soi-disant civilization isn’t a MASSIVE cost. Just look at what the Superstorm did to New York, or what Hurricane Andrew did to New Orleans, and multiply that over and over again – not to mention climactic shifts altering fertile regions, which can have HUGE geopolitical effects. (Historical case in point to avoid current politics: the Medieval Warm Period led to overpopulation in Scandinavia, which led to the Viking age, which had any number of impacts on countries all over the world, from the Varangian Guard in Constantinople to the Norman Conquest [William the Conquerer was a “Frenchified Viking,” as one writer put it].)
It’s sad, really, how much work they put into not seeing what is right in front of them. Why not put just a little of that work into making it better?