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People who have lived through previous 'this is going to kill us all' doomsday cycles are just a lot harder to convince. My parents are the same. The oil crisi
by 1337biz 7y ago
People who have lived through previous 'this is going to kill us all' doomsday cycles are just a lot harder to convince.
My parents are the same. The oil crisis in the 70s, death of the forests in the 80s, the ozone hole in the 90s must have been at their peak on the same hype level over here in Europe as the current climate crisis.
- aaronblohowiak 7y agoDo you know why the ozone hole crises isn’t a crisis any more? Because collective action worked.
- mturmon 7y agoThis is precisely true. The ozone hole is what sparked us to build the global earth observing system that we now have. It was originally not known how to observe and monitor atmospheric chemistry at a global scale.
- lovecg 7y agoThe point of “The Boy who Cried Wolf” is not that we should stop caring after a few false alarms. It’s that the wolves tend to show up when we do.