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I have been a fan pf PewDiePie for about 4 years now. I used to watch his videos daily, not so much anymore but I still enjoy them from time to time. He is a funny guy who entertained me with his videos in a time I needed it the most. 

Whenever there were bad headlines about him in the news, I stood by him, saw the misunderstanding on the medias behalf and continued to admire him. But now that I saw his recent video I am really disappointed.  

As you know, The US has been affected by a lot of natural diasters and catastrophes in the last few weeks. Many people have spoken out in support of those struggling and those in need.

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Among others also celebreties. Which I believe is a good thing since they can reach a lot of people by doing so. Of course one thing that has also been spoken about is Trumps ongoing delegitimization of global warming and climate change. Thought no one said that there was a connection between Trump beeing President and these disasters man people understood it as that. Of course this was met by a lot of backlash a lot of people, including PewDiePie.

I get what he is trying to say in his video. He thinks it’s disgusting to exploit these tragedies to promote ones political agendas. While I can understand his point of view I do not agree with this per se. I understand that these peoples misery is more important and no one questions that. The thing is, Global warming is a constant threat that needs to be acknowledged and should be at all times. Especially when the results can be seen at first-hand.

And having a President in the White House who is not environmentally conscious isn’t helping either. 

Yes, it is Hurricane season. And yes, this isn’t the first year with this many incidents. If you want to compare and get an idea of what Climate Change is doing you need to go back more than 13 years. Go back fifty or a hundred. The numbers have increased. It’s a fact. It’s really small but they have. If it’s in correlation with global warming remains to be seen. And when wo do know for sure, it’ll be too late.

The US has the 2nd biggest CO2 emission in the world. 15% of all of CO2 emissions. And flying jets is probably less than 0,00001% part of that. The big problem ist the industry, electricity and transportation. Only 2% of said transportation is because of air traffic. It’s a minor problem which is not so easily solved since we can’t travel far distances by anything but planes. Cars and those who travel distances that can well be reached by foot or bike are the bigger problem.  

Jennifer Lawrence lives eco friendly. She drives an electric car. And who says that her jet isn’t fueld with an alternative to kerosene? She speaking up is doing more good than his video ever will. 

I hope this won't have bad consequences. I don't want to get in trouble...

Me making choices as Chloe:

I don’t get why all of a sudden everyone is hating on the way the story is being told. Game of Thrones used to surprise us and still can if you let it. Just because they don’t kill off main charcters every new season, doesn’t mean that it has lost it’s unpredictabiltly, it means that it has finally found it’s course. The only reason certain deaths were unpredictable and surprising, is because George RR Martin lead us to believe that these people had a bigger role to play in this story. But they hadn’t. They were the unimportant side characters to a story much bigger than it first seemed to be. So of course sooner or later the story needs to pay off with something big and of course it needs characters we are invested in to do so. What would be the point in telling all their storys if you would just kill them off midway? The show has done it but those characters were simply not important to the story GRRM wanted or wants to tell.

Game of Thrones or ASOIAF has always been relying on prophecies, visions and foretelling. Of course all of these would matter at some point in the story. It started with Danys vision in the house of the undying seeing a dead man with a wolfshead sitting on a throne. And it might end with a big one. We will see. But it’s not fanservice if certain fan theories comes true, it rarely means that they were set up to happen at some point and turn out to BE true.

AUDIENCE S1-6: I wish Dany would finally go to Westeros und conquer the Iron Throne. Her storyline became kind of boring. She was such a badass in Season 3 but now she is just annoying. I wish she would go back to that. And finally use her dragons!