Americans flee to Netherlands, end up in camps.

@Soothfast said
Yeah. "It's all fake."

The entomologists are all lying about declining insect populations, especially in proximity to human development. Meteorologists, oceanologists, biologists, and climate scientists are just making up stuff about rising atmospheric CO2 and methane levels, the acidification of ocean waters, coral reef die-off, collapsing fish populations, and so on. ...[text shortened]... ble, but the thing about cognitive dissonance is that it's impervious to logic.

Too bad for you.

Yeah, bombing mosques is a good thing. Those murderous animals are killing Christians all over the world. In Nigeria over this Easter week thousands were murdered. I have no pity for Muslims. As for the comment about putting them in ovens, that is what they did to Jews on Oct 7th 2023, in case you forgot.

Where I live we have no problem with declining anything. Human development naturally will chase away certain animal populations. The problem is that western countries were wasteful and they still are. Nowhere around here are there food fights, food waste, groceries throwing out perfectly good tomatoes or cucumbers because they do not have the right shape. Nowhere around here do farmers shoot surplus animals to maintain a high price. You people are wasteful and you are the ones destroying the planet. You fix it.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
They left in 2025 because they were feeling the effects of what Biden and the dems did up to the end 2024.

Sure. Everything bad was caused by an old dude with dementia who could barely talk.

Did anything else happen in 2025?

@Soothfast said
The ozone layer has been recovering nicely since an international agreement was arrived at to ban the use of chlorofluorocarbons. It will still take decades for the ozone layer to be back to normal, though.

I hear a lot of nonsense from your sort that there's no problem with the environment because initial predictions back 50 or 60 years ago were off the mark. As a matte ...[text shortened]... tiny bubble, sweet summer child. There's a whole world out there to explore—for a bit longer anyway.

I took a road trip through farm country recently and the big revelation was that we no longer need to clean off splatted windshield bugs anymore.

@wildgrass said
Sure. Everything bad was caused by an old dude with dementia who could barely talk.

Did anything else happen in 2025?

Not caused by him, by his handlers and the Dem party.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Not caused by him, by his handlers and the Dem party.

Riiiiiight. Thanks for clarifying. The reptoids did it.

@Rajk999 said
The problem is that western countries were wasteful and they still are. Nowhere around here are there food fights, food waste, groceries throwing out perfectly good tomatoes or cucumbers because they do not have the right shape. Nowhere around here do farmers shoot surplus animals to maintain a high price. You people are wasteful and you are the ones destroying the planet. You fix it.

So now you agree the planet is being destroyed, but you blame it on people throwing away cucumbers.

Yes, the consumer mindset is a big problem, with people buying mountains of plastic junk that quickly ends up in landfills. This is not a Western problem so much as a problem with capitalism, which requires mindless consumption on a mass scale in order to thrive. It's not an accident that capitalist systems of economics evolved in tandem with the industrial revolution and mechanized factories.

An enormous amount of human activity in capitalist economies is occupied with advertising. "Buy this shiny new thing to keep up with the Joneses," "If you don't have product X, you won't be part of the 'in' crowd." It's all about manufacturing desire, not satisfying need. Absolute waste on a planetary scale. Planned obsolescence is an industry-sanctioned practice. But the waste of capitalist economics is somehow spun as a virtue. Certainly it keeps people busy, if not with constructive pursuits. Under capitalism it's never questioned why, even in countries with stagnant or declining populations, that it's necessary for the economy to keep growing—infinitely—in order to be considered "prosperous."

A global economic system that demands infinite growth in a finite world is, quite literally, insane. The planet has finally had enough.

@Soothfast said
So now you agree the planet is being destroyed, but you blame it on people throwing away cucumbers.

Yes, the consumer mindset is a big problem, with people buying mountains of plastic junk that quickly ends up in landfills. This is not a Western problem so much as a problem with capitalism, which requires mindless consumption on a mass scale in order to thrive. It's not ...[text shortened]... ds infinite growth in a finite world is, quite literally, insane. The planet has finally had enough.

The planet is not being destroyed. Resources are being wasted, and the perpetrators are you rich western nations. Down here we live frugally, and we dont throw food at each other, we buy and eat what we need. We dont have fruits on a table as decoration. We dont by junk and fill it up in the garage. We fix stoves and fridges and keep it for decades.

It seems you glutonous Americans enjoy getting fat and unhealthy, then going to the doctor to loose weight and take drugs, then going on eating and drinking binges. Then telling the world how to save the planet. Start with your own bad wasteful habits.

What the hell is wrong with you people.

@Soothfast said

An enormous amount of human activity in capitalist economies is occupied with advertising. "Buy this shiny new thing to keep up with the Joneses," "If you don't have product X, you won't be part of the 'in' crowd."

Here it is again. Blame other people for your [not you personally] stupid decisions. Why is it we see the same ads and it has no effect on us. Youall have lost your way and your focus, and it is all because you have given up spirituality, with no God in your life and have become shallow men-pleasers.

@wildgrass said
Sure. Everything bad was caused by an old dude with dementia who could barely talk.

Did anything else happen in 2025?

You ARE talking about Trump, right?

@Cliff-Mashburn said
What a load, ain't no "vast" exodus of our "best and brightest".....Mostly a bunch of stupid losers.
You act like there are millions of Americans doing it.

Our "best and brightest" don't measure in the millions.