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It's important because it frames what is happening now in a proper context. For example, in the USA, we are caging climate refugees, many children, in concentra
by mempko 7y ago
It's important because it frames what is happening now in a proper context. For example, in the USA, we are caging climate refugees, many children, in concentration camps. The media doesn't call them climate refugees, but that's what they are. If you understand this, then you understand the problem of people wanting to come is only going to get worse, and it's a moral imperative we let them come.
It's also important to you because it can help you decide where to work, where to live, and what to do.
- mindslight 7y agoWithout a sense of action, that "proper context" just causes more mental anguish. I'm obviously writing from a place of accepting climate change - I'm just describing why denying it is so attractive. Lifestyle choices are intrinsically a social game - your ignorant climate change denier is likely very concerned about some different issue, and can't understand why you're ignoring it. There are so many problems, it's impossible to care about them all. Meanwhile the media encourages both ignorances, pitting them against one another to insulate the status quo.
- mempko 7y agoI don't think denial is apathy or a response to dealing with other problems. Denial is a product of a massive disinformation campaign. There is a reason the rest of the world (in places with worse problems than in USA) doesn't have the same level of denial.
- mindslight 7y agoIf it is simply a disinformation campaign, then why hasn't that disinformation campaign been waged more equally across different countries? Even if the US is one of the largest markets to maintain, surely there would also be great value in eroding the European consensus. I'd argue that the overriding moderator is culture, with global warming being much more inconvenient for the car-based consumption treadmill. > There is a reason the rest of the world (in places with worse problems than in USA) It's not about real problems that people directly struggle with, but rather political "problems" that mass media turns into a divisive frenzy.