These are the weather machines you are looking for

I'm with the Conservatives on this one. Let's destroy all of these "weather machines"

Yeah, it definitely pisses me off to read people saying that the government isn't changing the weather.

Climate change is human caused, and every government subsidizing carbon extraction has blood on their hands.

There is a colossal difference between "the government CONTROLS the weather" and "the government participates in climate change"
- The government has chosen to invest in fossil fuels to the detriment of all other energy sectors, knowing full well that one of the consequences would be that more people would die in extreme weather events. They exercised control over the market, and it had fully predictable effects on weather and human beings. There's clearly still a difference, but it's not that "colossal."

Claim them and become your own nation

They are ready to be claimed. Hilarious! I never thought about buying my own personal man made island before. Turns out they are quite readily available.

https://oilrigsnow.com/offshore-rigs-for-sale/

https://www.offshore-mag.com/field-development/article/16790318/decommissioned-red-hawk-platform-up-for-sale

https://horizonship.com/ship-category/offshore-supply-vessels-for-sale/offshore-drilling-rigs-for-sale/
- Some of those cheap ones could be crowd sourced
Ok Boss.

🖐️🔄 "These aren't the weather machines you're looking for"

big oil, for the last 70 years, fully aware of the consequences of their greed.

And the ones in your garage.

Ah, yes, the old "consumers are the problem" rhetoric when, in actuality, they only account for 10% of emissions.
- 10% is 10%. I can't control what the CEO of an oil company does, but I can decide avoid using fossil fuels. (Maybe if enough of us did the same, we actually could influence an oil company.) We each have to do everything we can to reduce CO2. Dismissing something as rhetoric doesn't help.
- Pretty sure it's "Fuck Cars" rhetoric
- But it's also a 10% over which in western world we have quite a lot of control. You can vote for local governments that want to expand public transport. You can demand more bike paths and pedestrian friendly infrastructure in your neighborhood. There are multiple examples around the world (even in the USA) of communities or even whole cities significantly reducing car-centrism over several years.
  
  It's wrong to blame people for using plastic packaging when there's no feasible alternative. It's wrong to force people to go beyond their comfort by using less electricity or heating because governments didn't transform the energy sources.
  
  But each gram of CO2 matters and when reducing emissions doesn't require much effort or sacrifices (like voting) then we all absolutely should do our part.
- That 10% created a demand that caused the 60% to happen. To decrease or even eliminate that 60%, the 10% have to change their behaviour as well, even after decades of being indoctrinated.
Not to defend cars, but that's what, 7%* of CO² emissions?

While oil rigs have 100%. Ok, aside the gas rigs.

* fuck localized results by default, i find only results for EU and germany. Mind, the 14% of sector transport includes ship and flight too.
the ones used to haul people - I have no issue with. of course they must be replaced but in the great grand scale of things, they're at least hauling people to schools and jobs.

the assholes who look at internal combustion as their personality - the f1s, the nascar types, the tuner heads and vroom vroom fuckwits - they're doing it for FUN.

FUCK THOSE PEOPLE THE MOST. FUCK THEM EIGHT WAYS FROM SUNDAY. THEY'RE DERIVING THEIR ENTERTAINMENT FROM MAKING IT HARDER FOR CHILDREN TO BREATH. THEY DON'T EVEN FUCKING CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN CHILDREN, BECAUSE THAT'S WHO'S GOING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THEIR ABSURD BULLSHIT.

Of course replace ICE wherever possible, do the work, but I ain't angry at some lady hauling her kids around in an ICE kia.

The fuckwit who's modified their carb so they spew more freedom smog - and the ones who want to watch them race in circles at full tilt - they're holding the species back. Please, remind them of this whenever you see them. They're fucking us all over.
- I think there's a MASSIVE difference between Formula/GT/Rally guys and guys who roll coal. True racing cars count for less than 1% of global emissions. The real problem is all the flights and transport necessary to get to the venues. The vehicles themselves are a blip on the radar.
  
  Guys who roll coal are deliberately harming the environment for the sake of making a really stupid point.

I've seen a great idea of reusing those oil rigs as wind farm platforms.

They're just pulling it up here, the pumping-into-the-air part happens somewhere else, right?

If I produce a magical killing device and sell it knowing it can only kill, not only does it not have any other purpose, but actively cannot be used except to kill, am I at fault for deaths that device causes regardless of if I was the one in possession?