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One thing that scientists have learned over the last year is that facts and honesty don’t help. There are many financially motivated people trying their best to
by moomin 3y ago
One thing that scientists have learned over the last year is that facts and honesty don’t help. There are many financially motivated people trying their best to keep the temperature rising unchecked, and they know that complex, nuanced messages just don’t land at a political level. So you want something to happen, you keep the message consistent and clear.
Don’t tell the losing team they should give their opponents more chances to score. If society had wanted straight talking, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
- mixedCase 3y agoRight, because the "you'll all be underwater by the 2000s" messages 30-40 years ago sure helped a lot and nobody is claiming climate change is a hoax anymore.
- readthenotes1 3y agoSeems like they learned that facts and honesty don't help sometime before the pandemic...
- Paul-Craft 3y agoI, too, have learned an awful lot about human nature since about 2015 or so.
- Jensson 3y ago> If society had wanted straight talking, we wouldn’t be in this situation. USA is by far the worst climate change offender, and USA uses way more alarmist messaging than any other country I've seen. So to me it looks like alarmist messaging makes it worse, not better. Facts and honesty does help, big tobacco lost, tons of countries all over the world have already added plans to ban fossil fuel cars in about a decade etc. The caveat is that it takes decades for that change to happen, and US "scientists" seems to always want to sway the current election in their favor, so they happily sacrifice trust and long term get those small short term wins.
- moomin 3y agoThe facts and honesty I was talking about are exactly what gets characterised as alarmist, so I’m not sure which side you’re arguing.