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That's a great way to make everyone ignore it. Calling it a "crisis" does the same thing, the first time you hear crisis you get worried, then you realize it's
by ars 3y ago
That's a great way to make everyone ignore it. Calling it a "crisis" does the same thing, the first time you hear crisis you get worried, then you realize it's a very very slow moving thing and you start ignoring them.
Being alarmist helps no one.
Just be factual about it, it's not the news media's job to rile people up or get them to take some kind of action.
- jlengrand 3y agoIt has been the warmest day in the history since anyone starting measuring, and the summer days haven't started globally yet is a pretty factual way to put it in my book
- ars 3y agoI agree. But don't call it "Climate Crisis", that just sounds silly, and will make people ignore you (it's also not factual since a crisis is something that happens quickly). "Global Warming", or "Climate Change" work perfectly fine.
- Epa095 3y agoIt very much is a crisis. Merriam-webster is literally using "the environmental crisis" as an example of proper use of the word "crisis". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis
- smolder 3y agoThere are mountains of people doing what you do and complaining about alarmism and fear mongering and chiding people for apocalyptic predictions any time this subject comes up. I think that's worse than unhelpful, and is a disservice to everyone that lives after us. People are sounding the alarms and making dire predictions because there is so far 0 indication that as a global society we can cooperate well enough to prevent serious and irreparable harm to Earth's ecosystems and a great deal of consequent human suffering. We just barely, as a species, managed to contain ourselves well enough to not blow up in a nuclear light show. Peace is a fragile stalemate, not a lack of desire to destroy each other. If you ask me, there's no hope of an adequate change of inertia to prevent unprecedented human suffering stemming from AGW, and that's in large part because people would rather ignore it and stay comfortable. Toning down the alarmism does nothing to fix that.
- tacker2000 3y agoSo what do you suggest? Be scared everyday of the impending doom that awaits us inevitably (or maybe not in the end)? Is that a good way to live life?
- Epa095 3y agoYou can for example figure out how you can help the situation? Sticking your head in the sand is probably not the most helpful thing you can do. Even if YOU can't stop global warming (none of us can alone), you can atleast help spread willingness to action by telling the sober truth. Not exaggerate, but also not trivialise it.
- thworp 3y agoOn the flip side if we overreact and destroy our food and logistics systems over it the suffering will be worse than climate change. If the right people gain power I could see them doing something totally misguided like banning fertilizer or destroying electricity grids.