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You're mistaken there: "The boy who cried wolf" is about lying about there being a wolf while it isn't, not about speaking the truth but nobody wanting to liste
by _Microft 3y ago
You're mistaken there: "The boy who cried wolf" is about lying about there being a wolf while it isn't, not about speaking the truth but nobody wanting to listen.
Edit: check for yourself if you like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
- jlengrand 3y agoI'm half wondering if commenter implies that the wolf doesn't exist indeed...
- hotpotamus 3y agoI didn't think about the inverse parable, but I suppose that's Cassandra (and I've heard the database name was also a playful jab at Oracle, since Cassandra herself was an oracle).
- saulpw 3y agoCassandra foresaw the future but nobody listened.
- replygirl 3y agoi think you misjudged this as a climate denialist comment. it's not. the boy who cried wolf was about someone stirring hysteria so much it desensitized people beyond the point of caring when the threat was actually existential. it's not a perfect analogy but basically we've been crying wolf for decades (focusing on the wrong things: denuclearization, air quality, ozone layer, full-electric cars; vs. energy density, dense land uses, hybrids, democratic economies, etc.) and now that the wolf is starting to eat us, crying more won't help
- pengaru 3y agoClimate change is such a slow-moving massive-scale issue of course there's going to be decades and decades of observational reporting on its myriad effects. The boy who cried wolf is about telling fibs ruining one's credibility, it's entirely different. Our news sources shouldn't suppress reporting slow-moving disasters just because humans have a short attention span.
- SirMaster 3y agoSo all the climate scientists in the 1980s who said that the sea levels would be a meter higher today did not ruin their credibility? I think if you asked the average person about that they would not think they are very credible.
- pengaru 3y ago> So all the climate scientists in the 1980s who said that the sea levels would be a meter higher today did not ruin their credibility? I don't know what specific claims you're referring to. I was a child in the 1980s and you should provide citations when making such historical claims. For all I know these purported scientific predictions were qualified with murky probabilities. Publications having error bars +- 50 years, and we're just playing some kind of 40+ year game of telephone hearsay. But you are speaking as if sea levels went down since the 1980s which is obviously not the case.
- momdad420 3y ago[dead]
- relativeMeans 3y ago[dead]
- SirMaster 3y agoAll the people decades ago saying that the sea levels would be way higher today certainly didn't help instill confidence in their prediction abilities however. One could see how that could be seen as crying wolf.