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> Which is unfortunate, it is difficult being scientifically literate and progressive being surrounded by people "on your side" who are spouting the exact same
by ravenstine 7y ago
> Which is unfortunate, it is difficult being scientifically literate and progressive being surrounded by people "on your side" who are spouting the exact same kind of nonsense and lies as your opposition.
Tell me about it. I once talked to someone who says it's good that people are scaremongering on global warming because otherwise nothing might get done. They say there's no such thing as bad press, but I think it does science a disservice in the long term if perception is that it fails to deliver.
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- TeMPOraL 7y agoPress is often not even wrong about climate, and isn't even scaremongering properly. I'd say that accurate scaremongering involves mentioning things like "mass migrations", "loss of habitable land" and "opening up resource-rich areas", which cause things like "humanitarian crisis", "war", "mass starvation" and "collapse of technological civilization". I'd like to see press that dares to mention that.