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The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about climate change
msn ^ | 09/05/2023 | Dino Grandoni, Kim Bellware

Posted on 09/06/2023 8:37:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Burning Man is supposed to arrive and disappear like the desert breeze.

Near the end of every summer, attendees of the multiday mega-festival venture to the Nevada wilderness. Their motto: “Leave no trace.”

This year, thousands got stuck in the mud instead after about a half an inch of rain hit what is normally the driest state in the nation. Instead of leaving no trace, many self-described “burners” abandoned bicycles and vehicles on the drenched, muddy Black Rock Desert.

Once an underground carnival for free spirits, Burning Man today is famous as a party spot for Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley tech bros and other jet-set elites. The latest event offers a glimpse at how extreme weather can — and more frequently will — dramatically transform the environment in a moment’s notice.

“It’s a teachable moment, as far as climate disasters and extreme weather” go, said Anya Kamenetz, a Burning Man attendee forced to flee the festival. “This is very much just a trial run under really, really easy conditions for what a lot of people go through.”

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These people are going to make us starve one day with their BS
1 posted on 09/06/2023 8:37:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re just using changes in weather as an excuse to impose communism on us.


2 posted on 09/06/2023 8:38:13 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The morons have no idea there’s a thing called weather ,LOL


3 posted on 09/06/2023 8:39:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Could not have happened to a finer bunch of folks.


4 posted on 09/06/2023 8:39:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about signs from Heaven.


5 posted on 09/06/2023 8:40:19 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You knew they would go there....

Hot—climate change

Cold—climate change

Snow—climate change

Rain—climate change

Mud—climate change

Climate change ate their kid’s homework....


6 posted on 09/06/2023 8:40:23 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If climate change made these pagan a-holes miserable, I say more climate change please.


7 posted on 09/06/2023 8:40:35 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://wegotthiscovered.com/events/is-there-really-an-ebola-outbreak-at-burning-man-2023-the-rumors-explained/


8 posted on 09/06/2023 8:40:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: butlerweave

It’s called the Desert Monsoon..it happens every year at this tie.


9 posted on 09/06/2023 8:41:02 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If it’s hot and no rain - global warming. If it pours rain - climate change. Send more tax dollars so the genius bureaucrats can pretend to be God.

These idiots have been so successful in life SO FAR that they think they can control everything.


10 posted on 09/06/2023 8:41:02 AM PDT by Aria
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s monsoon season in an El Niño year. Plus the volcanic action undersea is putting millions of tons of WATER VAPOR into the air. Sheesh.


11 posted on 09/06/2023 8:41:24 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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How is this a disaster?

So they got stuck in mud. Sounds like an inconvenience to me.

12 posted on 09/06/2023 8:41:37 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: Aria

What’s teachable is young folk with nothing to do looking for fun. Think spring break/drugs. They’re missing something and need to act out for the sake of acting out.


13 posted on 09/06/2023 8:42:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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The disaster would be if they ran out of drugs.

;-)


14 posted on 09/06/2023 8:43:20 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: SamAdams76

The disaster would be if they ran out of drugs.

;-)


15 posted on 09/06/2023 8:43:20 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another thread says there are rumors of Ebola. OKAY, lets just sterilize the entire area with NAPALM.

That way all the freaks and any virus that may be there are gone FOR GOOD!!!


16 posted on 09/06/2023 8:44:23 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: butlerweave

Wondering if the rain for Burning Man was a harbinger?


17 posted on 09/06/2023 8:45:06 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: cgbg

18 posted on 09/06/2023 8:45:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As if it never rains there. We have dry lake beds here in SoCal and they fill up with water from time to time.


19 posted on 09/06/2023 8:46:33 AM PDT by Parley Baer (GO )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What does playa mean at Burning Man?
The Spanish word for “beach” and also the term designated to the remains of a dried lakebed which is what Black Rock City sits upon, hence becoming an endearing nickname.

It was a lake bed at one time. Maybe it’s going to be a lake again. Duh.


20 posted on 09/06/2023 8:47:01 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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