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There were plenty of scientists letting the public know about the global warming in the 80s. The public didn't want to know about it.

• einpoklum 4y ago
  Don't blame "the public". This wasn't some conscious informed choice by millions of people. The public sucks the glass teat of mass media, and the interests controlling it did not want to present global warming as a problem. In fact, this state of affairs has not even changed that significantly.
  • borissk 4y ago
    All right, but blaming the mass media is not much more helpful. What do suggest - nationalize it all?
  • johnsea 4y ago
    Of course the public was (and is!!) the culprit. Only the individual "footprint" is so small that almost nobody does something. Real structural changes are hard to enforce. There is always something more pressing, just look e.g. at the 100 billion Germany spends on war (how many trees that would give?). As a politician it would be the end of the career if you tried to enforce something really drastic (and so nobody does it, incl. "the greens").
  • the_only_law 4y ago
    > The public sucks the glass teat of mass media Ok I'll blame them for that then.