Chewsday Memes, May 21
Weekly portion of snatchings from various sources
Good time of day, humans!
This is a small rat’s nest of memes I’ve snatched lately (mostly from Xitterverse) – some serious, some not so much.
Enjoy!
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Choose your battles wisely.
A new Hitler arising is rather improbable, I reckon.
"CO2 worsens wildfires by helping plants grow—The greenhouse gas is a floating fertilizer"
Bullshit fertilizes bad science.
To get serious for a minute…I was struck by your first meme, 'Canadian becomes world's first patient to be diagnosed as suffering from climate change'. So I did an Internet search on the headline. Turns out it's a true story from 2021: a small town Canadian doctor, during a heat wave and forest fires/smoky air, admitted an elderly asthmatic, diabetic, heart-diseased woman who lived in a trailer with no air conditioning where the interior temperature reached heights of (gasp!) 86° F/ 30° C. His unprecedented diagnosis made worldwide headlines.
This is analogous to the pandemic-era distinction of dying 'from Covid' versus 'with Covid'. Never mind that the patient was teetering on the brink already with multiple severe health conditions. This point is aptly made by the meme's photo of a random grossly obese person, almost certainly not the real subject of the diagnosis.
The most egregious thing about the story is the doctor's statement that “If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just going to keep falling further and further behind.” Of the dozen articles I read, all were composed in a way to implicate climate change as the *cause* of the woman's illness. Of course it's possible that the doctor was referring to whatever lifestyle choices the woman had made during her life to lead to such health problems, but none of the articles even suggested that possibility; it doesn't help that all of them appear to be based on one local news story. Did no one dig into this more thoroughly?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Canadian+becomes+worlds+first+patient+to+be+diagnosed+as+suffering+from+climate+change&t=osx&ia=web