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Re YC Research, please consider a project looking at the challenges surrounding climate change communications. To state the obvious, the science on climate chan
by bartmancuso 10y ago
Re YC Research, please consider a project looking at the challenges surrounding climate change communications. To state the obvious, the science on climate change is settled, but many people are still skeptical/resistant or in outright denial. Heated arguments and throwing around citations to journal articles really doesn't change anyone's mind. There is a deeper, nuanced communications challenge at play, and it's the exact type of thing that YC would be great at addressing. There are some very interesting ways that technology (and the creativity of the YC community) could be used to tackle this issue.
Climate change may be the defining issue of the next century, and it would be a shame to be stymied by the communications challenges. I hope you'll consider it.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt's not about nuance. It's just echo chambers reinforced by the media those in support or denial consume: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media) Consolidation of corporate media combined with algorithms of biggest, online providers have really cemented the effect in. Past few years, esp election, had strongest effects on isolation and reinforcement I've ever seen.