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A lot of people are skeptical of the climate change movement because they don’t want to change their behaviors or feel guilt about what they have personally don
by pwthornton 7y ago
A lot of people are skeptical of the climate change movement because they don’t want to change their behaviors or feel guilt about what they have personally done to contribute to it. That’s 100% it. Full stop.
We should be skeptical of any ways to address climate change that rely on technology and require very little behavior change.
Burning fossil fuels does more than just warm the planet, so trying to stop the planet from warming through some far out means wouldn’t address these other huge issues. Also, the easiest path to haunting climate change is to literally stop doing the damaging things.
- pms 7y agoI would add to it that a large part of this skepticism is fueled on purpose by respective interest groups. The real obstacle is the confusion in the public opinion spurred by big oil marketing and lobbying. It's really hard to find quality information online, but it exists since many years and it's pushed down on purpose by such interest groups. Here is an example: Exxon, a big oil corporation, had accurate predictive models of climate change, agreeing with scientific consensus, already in 1982 and confirmed "it will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050". https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209 https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209 Shortly after Exxon began to deny global warming and started "greenwashing" marketing campaigns, which today show up directly in the news articles on global warming, e.g., in The New York Times: https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570 https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570