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There are serious academics and serious politicians and serious activists doing serious, non-infantile work to fight - and advocate for solutions to - climate c
by rngname22 4y ago
There are serious academics and serious politicians and serious activists doing serious, non-infantile work to fight - and advocate for solutions to - climate change.
The infantile throwing milk at a famous painting stuff is just what drives clicks and what the media pushes and what the masses click and talk about.
So if you want to blame anyone, blame the public for caring more about infantile climate activists than real ones or blame media or its incentive structure for showing them on the front page instead of IPCC reports.
Really misguided, unneeded, and dare say I, infantile article Mr. Shellenberger. In giving further attention to the infantile people, you're just amplifying their signal and making the signal to noise ratio worse.
- Georgelemental 4y ago> Blame the public In business, the customer pays, so the customer is always right. Similarly, in democracy, government is of by and for the people, so the public is always right. So no, don't blame the public, never blame the public, if you blame the public you deny the premise of democracy. (Unless you don't support democracy of course, which is a legitimate position to take but you should at least acknowledge that that is what you are doing)
- jacooper 4y agoI think a part of it is they never get punished. Nothing effectively happens to stop these dumb trends. They need to get kicked out and humiliated for destroying public/private buildings, otherwise it's only going to get more popular. I also think this also applies to the crime problem in the west.