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Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court

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Post by mikhailfranco »

aydyn wrote: post #6
exabrial wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Boomers tanked the economy No. Reckless spending by the Federal Government tanked the economy: https://www.aier.org/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=https... Started under Bush after 9/11. Trump took it to a new level under Covid. Biden got behind the wheel and floored it.

Bush, Trump and Biden are all boomers, as were most people in congress. If you're blaming federal spending, it sounds like a reasonable statement to make that "boomers tanked the economy"?

No, blame the electorate, which has significant contributions from all generations (but decreasing Boomers now).

There is a doom loop of (western) democracies voting themselves welfare, wars, lower taxes, various anti-market subsidies, stimmie checks, bread & circuses... Then have the central bank print trillions $£€¥ to cover the deficits (actually quadrillions for ¥¥).

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

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Post by pyuser583 »

pauldenton wrote: post #3

I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.

Young people are two years behind because schools were unnecessarily closed. That should be a lawsuit right there.

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Post by claytongulick »

joe__f wrote: post #14
mikhailfranco wrote: post #12

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Yep, when you need people to start taking action to stop the world from literally burning then it's important to publicize that it's happening and people are likely to get scared

> stop the world from literally burning

That's the sort of climate histeria that makes it difficult for rational people to take any of it seriously.

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Post by Krssst »

pauldenton wrote: post #3

I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.

They would lose because the response was appropriate with the given information at the time. (and the lower risk we enjoy today is thanks to vaccination and natutal immunity of the survivors).

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Post by claytongulick »

jrajav wrote: post #7
pauldenton wrote: post #3

I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.

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> overly cautious and compassionate public health measures

You forgot unconstitutional and ineffective.

> in an easily recoverable way

You think reversing inflation, massive debt and a historic housing price bubble is easy?

> decades-long rabid and unchecked industrialization that is irreparably destroying major parts of the planet for every generation to follow, ever

You mean the thing that has improved the lives of every human to the best level it's ever been in history? That outside of mathematical models has had very little actual measurable detrimental effect (assuming you're talking about global warming). I suppose you'll be volunteering to give up your car, house, dishwasher, laundry machines and all the other amazing things that make life vastly better and more hygienic for billions of people.

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Post by joe__f »

claytongulick wrote: post #15
joe__f wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, when you need people to start taking action to stop the world from literally burning then it's important to publicize that it's happening and people are likely to get scared

> stop the world from literally burning That's the sort of climate histeria that makes it difficult for rational people to take any of it seriously.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/global-wildfires-...

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Post by claytongulick »

joe__f wrote: post #19
claytongulick wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> stop the world from literally burning That's the sort of climate histeria that makes it difficult for rational people to take any of it seriously.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/global-wildfires-...

Like I said, climate histeria.

The cause of wildfires is much more complex than "global warming". It involves forestry, proper maintenance, water management and many other things up to and including fires that are set by climate activists [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/radical-environmentalis...

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