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Repeated hysterical predictions of human-level catastrophic events are the single largest impediment that environmental causes face -- because when they repeate
by jjoonathan 8y ago
Repeated hysterical predictions of human-level catastrophic events are the single largest impediment that environmental causes face -- because when they repeatedly fail to come true people update their priors accordingly.
The worst part is that the people making the exaggerations think they are helping.
- colordrops 8y agoThere are billions of people on the planet and there's no way to stop some of them from being hysterical. It would be a shame to fail as a species because we didn't like the way the message was delivered.
- jjoonathan 8y agoIf only a few fringe outliers were crying wolf, I would not be so concerned about the credibility issue.