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Yes, and the fourth: "What should be done?" The problem becomes when people roar in about 1 and 2 and then make somewhat outrageous demands for 4, without just
by simonsarris 7y ago
Yes, and the fourth: "What should be done?"
The problem becomes when people roar in about 1 and 2 and then make somewhat outrageous demands for 4, without justifying 4, or often 3.
This is what upsets most people, I think, even if they are not clever enough to articulate what's going on. There's a motte of defensible science that pushes for a much less defensible list of adjacent social causes, and then any pushback on the conclusions is easily painted as being "anti-science."
- lopmotr 7y agoI've had this exact concern for the past decade and a half. Climate change activists really aren't using logic because they completely neglect 3 and just pull an answer to 4 out of a hat. Then when people instinctively feel their answer is unreasonable, they mock them for not believing in 1 and 2. If you have no estimate of the cost of climate change, then you also have no business proposing costly preventative measures.