Yeah, but flat-earthers don’t hurt anybody else, or even themselves. They’re not like anti-vacc’ers or people that peddle fake health treatments. They’re harmless.
Frankly, they probably put more thought into their “theory” than most people that just accept the world is round, so at least they’re thinking (even if their conclusions are wrong). I’m sure if you asked the average Joe in the street how to prove the world is round, they’d just shrug and have no idea.
Flat-earthers don’t scare me. What scares me is the huge numbers of people that believe stuff just because some celebrity said it was true.
The youngest woman ever elected to Congress again made headlines when she said Monday that she and other young Americans fear “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y
I don’t believe this is a political story. Flat earth, sky is falling or that stupid statement, what’s the difference?
If the world is going to end in 12 years, it’s far too late for us to do anything about it. Instead, let’s party like it’s 1999! You know… preparing for all the Y-2K bugs that were going to destroy civilization.
Just barely old enough, I remember some sort of faux documentary with a washed up actor trying to scare the crud out of the audience. If you go back a few more years there was Soylent Green where they were predicting global warming & dead oceans. It seems to cycle from one to the other every so often.