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>Understanding of the hype cycle or not, the trouble is that our government is looking less legitimate by the day because it does not recognize and respond to t
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
>Understanding of the hype cycle or not, the trouble is that our government is looking less legitimate by the day because it does not recognize and respond to threats such as climate change
The government doesn’t recognize and respond to climate change because the voters don’t recognize and respond to climate change. I would guess on a market cap weighted basis, most corporations are in favor of climate change legislation, there is not overwhelming popular support for it.
- c256 8y agoThis is not really what the data shows. In the U.S., for example, the large majority of voters recognize global climate change as serious and impending problem. Where voters “don’t respond to climate change” is when they are asked if they’re willing to make general, probably painful changes in the name of potentially mitigating the effects of climate change. That shouldn’t be a surprise, though, since they exhibit the same pattern every time they’re asked about their desire to experience specific immediate pain toward the goal of reducing long-term deleterious effects.