feminine wandering

To all you NJ residents complaining that you hate snow and shit...

1. Snow wouldn't be as much of a hassle if our roads had funding to be taken care of. A LOT of that has to do with the fact that our gas tax has needed to be raised for years and hasn't. Because we will be running out of money ENTIRELY for upkeep of our roads and bridges in a few monthes, our roads aren't cleared promptly, leading to roads being more hazardous and therefore work places and educational facilities needing to be shut down. NJ is not the snowiest place in the world or even the US!!! States further north get much more snow then us and don't have snow days because their state actually takes care of the snow. 

Legit, look it up. NJ has the second worst roads in the country because Chris Christie doesn't raise the gas tax so there is no money for road upkeep. Fuck you, Christie. (And all y'all that voted for him).

2. I also wanna call erebody out that I hear complaining about the snow and NOT climate change! Haven't you noticed it seems like our winters getting worse and worse every year? Haven't you heard of the entire scientific community agreeing on climate change due to the exaggerated use of fossil fuels? Most of the people I know, because I don't associate myself with most people who deny climate change/global warming, know about these things but are not talking about them and not choosing to care about them.

I'm not saying this needs to be everyone's #1 issue, but whatever issue is your #1 is also being affected by global warming. You want to talk about any group of people that is marginalized, they're the groups of people that are affected most. In our capitalistic world, poorer communities will be least able to cope with worse weather conditions. Small island countries will have a harder time with sea level rise and they have not been the ones primarily causing it. Point is that you should give a shit about this and make decisions based on these issues.

So it's fucking cool to complain about the weather, but it's not fucking cool to talk about global warming.