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I tried to get newspapers to report on it and they kept telling me they already covered ocean acidification.

moffkalast 3y ago
Iirc the research regarding what kind of emotion evoking news gets most attention shows it's mainly awe and anger. Sadness doesn't get you very far, so there's a direct incentive to not report on any collapse related stuff we can't really do anything about anymore, since it won't get shared at all. Could spin it as an angry piece condemning the fossil fuel lobby, but that probably gets you cut off the next time there's a burning oil rig to report on.
- mandmandam 3y ago
  > that probably gets you cut off the next time there's a burning oil rig to report on. More likely, the money from the expensive green-washing ads they buy is cut off. Anyway, I'm sick of profit motive being an excuse for media complicity in atrocity.
  - NovaDudely 3y ago
    You know how a lot of people see those in the past as being ignorant and we wonder how they could not see the silly things they did... the older I get, the more that is how I see nowadays. Folks will look back on us in decades/centuries from now and go "what were they thinking? They knew what was happening, knew what had to be done but then didn't do it". There are two books by William T Volleman, the Carbon Ideologies series. The first few pages are written to the people who would potentially read these books in 200 years trying to explain how the people of today are not much different than they are. It was a wise move to frame these things like that.
    - moffkalast 3y ago
      I mean what, hindsight is 20/20? People have always been and will always be self-centred and short-sighted. Considering that, while having limited info plus strong preconceptions and it's not really surprising that most decisions ever made have been terrible.
    - mandmandam 3y ago
      I've had the same thought; thanks for the book recommendation.

Iirc the research regarding what kind of emotion evoking news gets most attention shows it's mainly awe and anger. Sadness doesn't get you very far, so there's a direct incentive to not report on any collapse related stuff we can't really do anything about anymore, since it won't get shared at all. Could spin it as an angry piece condemning the fossil fuel lobby, but that probably gets you cut off the next time there's a burning oil rig to report on.

mandmandam 3y ago
> that probably gets you cut off the next time there's a burning oil rig to report on. More likely, the money from the expensive green-washing ads they buy is cut off. Anyway, I'm sick of profit motive being an excuse for media complicity in atrocity.
- NovaDudely 3y ago
  You know how a lot of people see those in the past as being ignorant and we wonder how they could not see the silly things they did... the older I get, the more that is how I see nowadays. Folks will look back on us in decades/centuries from now and go "what were they thinking? They knew what was happening, knew what had to be done but then didn't do it". There are two books by William T Volleman, the Carbon Ideologies series. The first few pages are written to the people who would potentially read these books in 200 years trying to explain how the people of today are not much different than they are. It was a wise move to frame these things like that.
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    I mean what, hindsight is 20/20? People have always been and will always be self-centred and short-sighted. Considering that, while having limited info plus strong preconceptions and it's not really surprising that most decisions ever made have been terrible.
  - mandmandam 3y ago
    I've had the same thought; thanks for the book recommendation.