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The doomsday cult approach doesn't work. People wear out very quickly from having imminent destruction that never materializes pushed on them. Whatever one's po
by version_five 3y ago
The doomsday cult approach doesn't work. People wear out very quickly from having imminent destruction that never materializes pushed on them. Whatever one's position on what we should be doing about climate change, it should be obvious that regular alarmism is not the way to get people to do stuff.
- Daishiman 3y agoThe destruction is quite evidently materializing all over the world with new heat and drought records being broken constantly. A this point some people are actively refusing to see it.
- version_five 3y agoAre you advocating for just more alarmism then?
- chasd00 3y agoThe problem is timescale, the drought in California was pointed to as an example of a climate change disaster but now it's just about over. Over time the droughts and heatwaves will get worse and worse but human brains aren't geared to think on those timescales. Look at the changes in one year from the link below. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
- rufus_foreman 3y agoThere are heat waves and droughts but food production has tripled over the last half century, and the only thing I have ever seen during that period that kept the grocery store shelves from being fully stocked for more than a few days has been a pandemic.
- Daishiman 3y agoYou haven't seen it because you very likely live in a first-world country where neither subsistence farming nor farming exports are drivers of the local economy and welfare. Droughts and heat waves have a very real impact in global affairs in the Middle East, South America, India, and Asia.
- rufus_foreman 3y agoThe tripling of food production has a very real impact in those areas.