Except Israel isn't just defending themselves anymore. They're carpet bombing Gaza trying to turn it into a parking lot.
If Israel was just defending themselves, nobody would have an issue with that.
Instead, they're bombing hospitals, and murdering children in cold blood. And the president of Israel has made some very concerning comments indicating that he doesn't see Palestinians as people.
So, yeah, saying Israel has a right to defend itself is a complete mischaracterization of what's going on right now over there.
I don't need to educate myself. I live with someone who does climate adaptation research. Hell, we are ignoring the more important issue right now which is ecological collapse. Arguably that's going to screw us way more than the changes in weather that are coming.
And I've read the IPCC reports compiled by scientists, I don't need to watch youtube videos on the subject.
Yes they are. Plenty of politicians still say it's fake. Lots of people I know in real life saying it isn't man made, or it's not real, or we don't need to deal with it bcz it's the coming rapture. If we were paying attention to it, we wouldn't need scientists doing the research to protest.
It's sad to see people making jokes about this. The message is rather clear. The amount of times I've said this exact thing and gotten down voted before is depressing. People seem to want to ignore the issue. If climate change is as bad as predicted, it will affect everyone, and when it does, it will be too late to reverse it, we can only make it less bad.
I've always said to dump me in a ditch somewhere, I'm not gonna care, I'll be dead. If anybody pays for an expensive ass coffin for me, I will come back and haunt their ass.
This is just basic psychology. It takes a long time to change someone's political beliefs, and it isn't effective to just argue with people, even with facts. Interestingly, one way to get people to change their opinion is to frame things in terms of how it affects them and their family.