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Joelle Moses has found a great way to lose friends
I recently woke up at my family’s cabin, hung-over, and got into a car with some friends to embark on our journey home. Somehow, I got talking about climate change.
Although I didn’t expect a complete consensus from my friends, I hoped that they would at least acknowledge what I had said. Instead, I was met with not-so-subtle hints to shut my trap, and complaints that it was ‘too early in the morning to have this type of conversation’.
I wish I could say that this was an isolated incident. I wish I could say that usually, when I bring up this issue, people are keen to learn and talk about it. However, that is not the case.
Although I can understand that my friends may not want to engage in this conversation first thing in the morning, it seems like there is never a time and place that people want to talk about climate change.
Believe me, I don’t always want to talk about it either (yes you do). Acknowledging the realness and the urgency of this issue is terrifying. Understanding the fact that us Westerners are primarily responsible for it is equally unpleasant.
Of course, most people find ‘climate change’ to be a very low ranking issue, and really do not want to be lectured. Despite all the time I spend writing posts about the issue, and commenting at other sites, it isn’t something that comes up very often in Real Life. Because most people really do not care. It’s just a small group of unhinged Progressives who are using the issue to push for taxes, fees, and more and more Governmental control of people, private entities, and economies.
I mean it when I say that I wish that I didn’t have to talk about climate change so much. So then, why do I?
I talk about it because I am genuinely petrified of the future that awaits my generation. I talk about it because I sense that most people around me have not internalised how serious and how immediate this issue really is.
In other words, she’s going to nag the hell out of people, including when she’s taking fossil fueled trips (“got into a car”) with her friends.
Perhaps her friends would rather engage in a discussion about feminism in today’s patriarchal society.
More like screech.
“…because I am genuinely petrified of the future that awaits my generation.†sounds like you need therapy, not (former) friends who will listen to your incessant yammering.
Because you have a deep-seated fear that your life is meaningless and you need a world-saving mission to feel validated. It’s the same reason people assume that everything bad that happens to them is part of some grand conspiracy by powerful people who somehow have nothing better to do than torment random nobodies.