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What's the deal with the over the top misanthropy we see in so many people with an environmental cause? Is it a cultural thing?

Maybe it comes off as kind of edgy. Or maybe they're enjoying a preemptive "I told you so - idiots!" victory lap.

This attitude does not make me take your point seriously. It sets off my ideologue detector.

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Well, it's occasionally hard to see clear evidence that earth (or, specifically, tolerable conditions for human life on it) is rapidly heading towards the shitter - and there are plenty of people who'd rather go ad hominem than engage with the scientific evidence of the problem at hand.

In other words: You are the deal.

pointing out a pattern of strange behavior != denying scientific consensus.

Way to make the parent's point with a misanthropic misunderstanding of what was actually said.

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