The meme of “scientists spreading doom and gloom” just doesn’t appear to be rooted in reality, though. A much more obvious explanation is that what they’re rev

The meme of “scientists spreading doom and gloom” just doesn’t appear to be rooted in reality, though. A much more obvious explanation is that what they’re revealing and proposing is unbelievably dark and holistically bad that people can’t wrap their heads around the complexity of it all, and if they can’t, they choose to ignore it. Our reactions to our own mortality explain a lot here.