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Help me understand "not particularly unusual or scary, because worse things have happened before." Is it more that people have survived worse, so we can survive
by aaron-santos 5y ago
Help me understand "not particularly unusual or scary, because worse things have happened before." Is it more that people have survived worse, so we can survive this? Or more of that people's response to fear should be constant throughout history?
- thirsty-gecko 5y agoAn example will be, a fearmongering web site will say "climate change is here, $someplace just experienced its hottest day on record." Go and actually check the records, and you'll find, e.g., a black and white photograph commemorating a hotter day in $someplace in 1906, or other clear records of hotter days in $someplace in the distant past. Or they'll say "climate change is here, $someplace just experienced its third hurricane this year!" But if you check the records, you find that $someplace got hit with five hurricanes in 1883. On and on like that, wrongly suggesting that current events are unusual and scary, when in fact they are not remarkable compared to the historical records that nobody seems to be checking.