Almost every movie or show I've watched since I was a kid featured a cool shoot from the hip maverick that didn't have time to do that nerd shit like making ethical safe choices or pondering over the legitimacy of some grand conspiracy. They never needed too. They all live in a world where grand conspiracy's existed.

30 years later my generation grew up and have a lot of media stored right next to actual memories. So egg heads are evil spineless nerds that work for evil faceless organization. The real hero's are the guys that shoot first ask questions later.

Democracy. Everyone gets a vote, which leads people to think everyone's opinion is equal.

Insecurity. People don't like feeling shit about themselves. It's easier to find excuses to hate someone you suspect is better than you, than accept the sad truth that you're less than them. We're all narcissists to a degree.

A lot of people fluctuate between narcissism and self-loathing.

Vanity. It's the devil's favourite sin.

Because generally the people with the money and power stand to lose by learning things they relied on for that money and power were bad.

It’s so much easier to sound completely sure of yourself and like you’re obviously right when you don’t know all the details. It’s profoundly easy to preach from mount stupid. Detail takes nuance, it comes with changing perspectives. It’s difficult and uncomfortable and requires humility. None of that is cool.

When you only have a hammer ...

Ignorance is bliss. You can't be depressed about what you know you won't be able to or can't achieve if you don't know it. It's even better when you don't know that you don't know it.

Paint chip?

Tale as old as time unfortunately and it’s never any less depressing considering the advances we’ve had.

also biofuel lol

Electric airplanes are highly inefficient and not really good enough for commercial use.

"people will always want to have a better society with less pollution so why even bother?"

What a knob

I came to the comments looking for a citation on the supply claim so thanks for the link!

Another thing to think of is what it will look like as people grab at those last remaining drops. We already see it in loosening of restrictions to allow fracking, and moving villages and farms to scrape coal out of weaker and weaker deposits. The costs (not paid) of gathering this fuel will only increase and it's already more than many are willing to tolerate, so the exact date of running out doesn't matter at all.

https://feddit.uk/comment/2564489 Someone did look it up yesterday. We have approximately 70 years of coal left.

I don’t think anyone finds climate change/running out of fossils fuels “fun” so you’re not ruining anything.

You can throw up all over the place for all the difference it makes. Sure, there are benefits that sound great, but the reality is they don’t exist. I think India has the biggest investment in trying to figure it out, but it’s not there yet and may never be