| >It's as if they consider outputting tonne after tonne of carbon into the atmosphere as a point of pride. They absolutely do, it's about spite and punishing other people: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environme... >“Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr. Blue wrote.” I will continue to roll coal anytime I feel like and fog your stupid eco-cars.” http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17971903-to-figh... >The negative impact of environmental messaging became apparent when 210 study participants were given $2 to go light bulb shopping. When energy efficient, but more costly, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) were sold with a sticker that read "Protect the Environment," conservatives shied away from them. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... >Taking joy in that suffering is more human than most would like to admit. Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life. |
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