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How do we fix this complete disconnect from reality? I guess in the same vein how did they get such a incorrect view of the world state in the first place?
by tick_tock_tick 4y ago
How do we fix this complete disconnect from reality? I guess in the same vein how did they get such a incorrect view of the world state in the first place?
- revelio 4y agoTeenagers are impressionable and exist in an environment where they aren't allowed to seriously disagree with their teachers. They're also under huge pressure to conform to what seems popular. A lot of unrealistic climate doomerism is however created by adults. Even climatologists are now realizing they've badly overdone it, but of course the monster they created just turns on them when they try to restrain it. See the fun Zeke Hausfather has been having lately with being called a climate denier. For teenagers to get restored perspective and realize the future isn't going to end, and will in fact be pretty awesome, it is required first that their parents give up the doomer beliefs too. And that in turn requires people to get skeptical, to start seriously pushing back on those who tell people to never think for themselves. It's a hard social problem that goes well beyond teenagers.