(Note: I edited out a big chunk of text that contained personal details that I am not sure I want to have set in stone online. I think the comment still makes s

(Note: I edited out a big chunk of text that contained personal details that I am not sure I want to have set in stone online. I think the comment still makes sense, but in case it doesn't, please just ask to clarify how statement B logically follows from statement A, or in case A seems to be missing altogether, just how come I think B is true.) My world view changed dramatically over the past, say, five years, with all the news that has been coming at us, friends that talk about it, and a tiny bit of research (actually that's just opening Wikipedia whenever someone on reddit says something that sounds off). Climate change wasn't a big topic for me before that, partially because my parents hardly talked about it, school barely mentioned it, and I didn't have to make many choices of my own. Now I do and now it's also a bunch in the news, and now I also bring it up with friends and talk about it to colleagues. It just takes time to spread through society. I don't agree that there is a certain group of "ignorant people" that can never be taught versus <insert name for the opposing group>, especially when you put it in a way that makes it sound like the group of ignorant people on this planet that can never be taught is very large. > I wonder if you taught them philosophy What does that have to do with anything? I don't know exactly what philosophy is, but I'm pretty sure I don't need it to understand that the climate is going to shit from our carbon-based waste gases.