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Climate change has made us all incredibly intellectually lazy. Literally anything happens and we don't bother trying to understand why past "climate change". N
by umvi 4y ago
Climate change has made us all incredibly intellectually lazy. Literally anything happens and we don't bother trying to understand why past "climate change".
Natural disaster? Climate change. More or less insects/birds/rodents than usual? Climate change. More or less rain/snow/hail/heat/cold/storms/floods/droughts than usual? Climate change. Wildfire? Climate fire. Crypto currencies using record breaking amounts of electricity year over year? Climate change (impoverished countries ravaged by climate change turn to crypto currencies to escape their local inflated currency which further exacerbates climate change in a positive feedback loop - see what I mean?).
In all of these cases climate change may indeed be a piece of the puzzle, but due to intellectual laziness it has become the vast majority of the pie and we don't bother to understand if there are other factors more influential than climate change.
- munk-a 4y agoClimate change is happening and most of us live in a country (or next to a country, yay Canada!) where half the political body actively denies that it is happening and refuses to take action. As long as half of America continues to engage in such dangerous denialism there is no amount of drum beating that is excessive.
- YetAnotherNick 4y agoThere are so many things factually incorrect here > most of us live in a country No we don't > here half the political body actively denies By actively deny, you mean that they force everyone like you? If you mean that, then it's factually wrong. > no amount of drum beating that is excessive. Umm, as a suggestion you should look for more effective way of convincing people.
- marcosdumay 4y agoYeah, a drastic change on one of the most important aspects of the biosphere on the entire world is prone to lead to all kinds of changes. Usually people do go and verify, it's probably you that are not prone to looking. Almost always, it is global warming. This one time, we are not waiting for anybody to verify, because 50 years ago people were already predicting that global warming would almost certainly cause floods on the South littoral of Asia.
- YetAnotherNick 4y agoYes, I really wish that there is some place for nuanced discussion regarding climate change. I think most would agree that any single event can't be attributed to climate change just we could only look into average frequency.
- drraj32 4y ago