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Lol no replies to you debunking your links just downvotes. It's just an anti natilist cult at this point. If they really believed any of this they'd be talking about China. Literally 4 times the emissions of the EU and USA combined.




Yes it has religious qualities. The decline of Christianity opened a gap in the market. Climatism preaches a definition of good person that's tangible and easy to understand. You're a good person if you fear the wrath of Gaia, believe in an Armageddon in which humanity is punished for its sins, if you recycle your trash, if you buy indulgences when flying on vacation and if you never doubt the clergy even when they contradict themselves. You're a bad person if you doubt the integrity of the Chu-sorry the Institutions, if you don't believe in Armageddon, if you don't fear Gaia, if you think recycling is overhyped and above all if you don't Fucking Love Science!™

This belief system is highly attractive to the nerdy types who hang out here, because it explicitly privileges the nerdy and proclaims them the new priesthood, whilst draping itself in clothes designed to look like science and maths whilst refusing to hold itself to rigorous standards.

So we get BEHOLD ALL YE UNBELIEVERS type rhetoric, and then people with graphs that say "nothing to see here" get booed but not responded to.




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