<story><title>July 2023 was the hottest month on record</title><url>https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1691106509319806977?s=46&amp;t=H_jBB1XRvGbGkpJRBZAq5Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonporridge</author><text>Because destructive climate change is a condemnation of how we live our comfortable lives in the civilization we&amp;#x27;ve built, and people rightly recognize that fighting it would mean their lives get less comfortable. Therefore, sticking head in sand and going full denial and bargaining is the less painful option.&lt;p&gt;We all worship the beast that feeds us, right until the moment it turns around and devours us.</text></item><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Those Twitter comments…goddamn.&lt;p&gt;Why does climate change attract all these loonies? Even if you ignore the data completely, these people surely can’t look at an open pit mine, a plastic-filled landfill, and a smoke-spewing industrial plant and think that’s somehow &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; for the environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>&amp;gt; and people rightly recognize that fighting it would mean their lives get less comfortable&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m growing tired of the idea that riding a bike instead of driving a car is a discomfort equivalent to being a Neanderthal.&lt;p&gt;Biking works out just dandy for Netherlands.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not about comfort. It&amp;#x27;s about aversion to change.</text></comment>
<story><title>July 2023 was the hottest month on record</title><url>https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1691106509319806977?s=46&amp;t=H_jBB1XRvGbGkpJRBZAq5Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonporridge</author><text>Because destructive climate change is a condemnation of how we live our comfortable lives in the civilization we&amp;#x27;ve built, and people rightly recognize that fighting it would mean their lives get less comfortable. Therefore, sticking head in sand and going full denial and bargaining is the less painful option.&lt;p&gt;We all worship the beast that feeds us, right until the moment it turns around and devours us.</text></item><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Those Twitter comments…goddamn.&lt;p&gt;Why does climate change attract all these loonies? Even if you ignore the data completely, these people surely can’t look at an open pit mine, a plastic-filled landfill, and a smoke-spewing industrial plant and think that’s somehow &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; for the environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistrial9</author><text>I also think you are missing the mark.&lt;p&gt;Efficiency is an answer but the question is never asked in public. Why?  Secondly, a handful of industrial actors and their dot-mil customers are apparently never to be questioned, instead we get the 632nd episode of you and your carbon footprint, citizen.</text></comment>