She didn't say we would be wiped out in 5 years. She said we would be dead if we didn't stop using fossil fuels in 5 years. There is a difference.

An inconvenient distinction.

Alarmism, exaggeration, sensationalism, hyperbole - these are the tools of the propaganda machines. We would do well to eschew them. They don't really help. They just replace one matrix with another.

But just in case, after next week, I'm going to let the air out of my tires, take a sledge hammer to my 2-stroke lawnmower, and we're only cooking outside on sunny days using the pavement bricks. /s

She didn't say we would be wiped out in 5 years. She said we would be dead if we didn't stop using fossil fuels in 5 years. There is a difference.

An inconvenient distinction.

Alarmism, exaggeration, sensationalism, hyperbole - these are the tools of the propaganda machines. We would do well to eschew them. They don't really help. They just replace one matrix with another.

But just in case, I'm going to let the air out of my tires, take a sledge hammer to my 2-stroke lawnmower, and we're only cooking outside on sunny days using the pavement bricks. /s