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I personally don’t have any kind of personal experience for climate warming. Last year in Paris was freaking cold, and people went skiing last christmas eventho

by bsaul 7y ago

I personally don’t have any kind of personal experience for climate warming. Last year in Paris was freaking cold, and people went skiing last christmas eventhough i clearly remember it wasn’t always possible thirty years ago (to be clear, i’m only talking about climate, not deforestation or other environmental issues humans are clearly visibly the cause of). And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives.

inferiorhuman 7y ago
And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives. So you were out of town then for the record breaking heatwave where Paris saw temps of nearly 43 degrees and the ministry of health recorded nearly a thousand heat related deaths countrywide?
- bsaul 7y ago
  Wasn't that in 2003 ? It reached a peak then, and we haven't had that ever since... (and yet in that time CO2 concentration in the atmosphere kept raising and raising)
  - inferiorhuman 7y ago
    No it was the second heatwave that France saw in 2019 in less than a month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave#France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave#F...
speedplane 7y ago
> And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives. Nearly every threat is not immediately visible. In a horrible recession, most people still keep their jobs. When one foreign country invades another, it generally has no direct effect on anything in the U.S. If an astroid is about to hit earth, it won't have any effect until impact. Society relies on more than direct experience to evaluate threats.

by bsaul 7y ago

inferiorhuman 7y ago

And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives. So you were out of town then for the record breaking heatwave where Paris saw temps of nearly 43 degrees and the ministry of health recorded nearly a thousand heat related deaths countrywide?

bsaul 7y ago
Wasn't that in 2003 ? It reached a peak then, and we haven't had that ever since... (and yet in that time CO2 concentration in the atmosphere kept raising and raising)
- inferiorhuman 7y ago
  No it was the second heatwave that France saw in 2019 in less than a month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave#France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave#F...

speedplane 7y ago

> And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives. Nearly every threat is not immediately visible. In a horrible recession, most people still keep their jobs. When one foreign country invades another, it generally has no direct effect on anything in the U.S. If an astroid is about to hit earth, it won't have any effect until impact. Society relies on more than direct experience to evaluate threats.