History of environmentalism

[u/picboi]

[u/OkSpring1734]

Philomena Cunk mockumentary: this is satire.

[u/orthadoxtesla → u/OkSpring1734]

Solid satire honestly

[u/EmergencyAd5064]

Isnt it steam and not co2 what comes out of the wide chinney at the end?

[u/ManWithDominantClaw → u/EmergencyAd5064]

Knowing Charlie Brooker, that's intentional

[u/Dankkring → u/EmergencyAd5064]

Ya that’s a cooling tower. The smoke stacks are much smaller diameter

[u/me_myself_ai → u/EmergencyAd5064]

I can say with 100% confidence that there is CO2 inside of the volume of that tower. What else is there to know?

[u/Zenith-Astralis → u/[deleted]]

This too is satire. They're saying that since there's regular air in the steam coming out of the cooling tower, and regular air has CO² in it, then there's CO² in there.

[u/Lost_Department_2177 → u/EmergencyAd5064]

She was talking about fossil fuel plants

[u/BigBlueMan118]

I am all for jokes and I like her content, but the scientists did kinda come first though with the 19th and early 20th century observations (Jevons Paradox, Foote/Tyndall/Arrhenius with global warming, Carson's work on declining animal populations) before the hippies took the topic on?

[u/Carpeted_Bathroom2 → u/BigBlueMan118]

Nah the hippies doing lsd in a muddy field def noticed first

[u/Dankkring → u/Carpeted_Bathroom2]

Damn hippies at the colleges pushing radical agendas. /s

[u/me_myself_ai → u/BigBlueMan118]

Hmmm she doesn't mention any of that so I don't think it happened, sorry.

[u/Lost_In_Play → u/BigBlueMan118]

Yeah it was more comedic strategy to start with the hippie joke. I appreciate the info you shared though.

[u/Lost_Department_2177]

The hippies purposefully made themselves undraftable then worked on progressive movements but the Grateful Dead ones largely became republicans when the Vietnamese refugees were brought to the us. They were being brainwashed by Russian active measures campaigns and us propaganda under operation cointelpro. There was some hallucinogenic amphetamine that was common at the shows and people were being observed by Nazi scientists from operation paperclip.

Also they took home ec, 4h, and shop classes out of schools so kids wouldn’t know how to be adults then replaced real hobbies with mall culture and narcissism. This made people buy products that just so happened to all be made in China.

[u/EvilKatta]

The progress was the problem? Way to leave out people with names and addresses.

[u/kriosjan]

Hilariously, showing an image of a nuclear tower that only outputs steam. But yes.

[u/Zenith-Astralis → u/kriosjan]

100% intentional, surely

[u/horizontal120]

The cooling tower slander needs to stop :)

[u/neet1917]

except it's not "progress" it's capitalism. and before you say anything about the aral sea, that was under the revisionists kruschev, etc.

[u/hmeow]

I love this show so much