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To more than 50 % of humans, the reason is that the people, who are warning about climate change and are advocating for changes in behavior, are not trustworthy
by sericccus 3y ago
To more than 50 % of humans, the reason is that the people, who are warning about climate change and are advocating for changes in behavior, are not trustworthy.
Here's a bit: (When I say, engineers, I mean all kinds of engineers _and_ scientists.)
Engineers build products that require customers to fight for a fucking right to repair. Engineers build stuff based on dark patterns. Engineers put things into food that makes people sick and then tell stories about how the lifestyles of the past generations were bad for them. Engineers build companies that exploit people with and without a (higher) education. Engineers invented the volatile prices of oil and gas even though we constantly find new sources, soon, most likely even on other planets. Engineers are responsible for not taking care of the trash their companies used to produce, the trash that has polluted air, water and soil. Engineers don't go into politics to use logic, rationality, facts, THE TRUTH (I'm sorry for being so dramatic), to oust liars and manipulators in order to establish better policies and practices. Engineers work at huge consultancies and create strategies that stretch decades and amount to opiod epidemics and civil conflicts and financial scams that rob almost all the people on the entire planet of the added value they have created with their own hands, their sweat and their blood. We have no reason to believe them because if it was so damn important to them, they'd find the time and space to use their brains to actually do something about all the assholes that are in the way and I can't even say that without worrying that all these Engineers actually fucking think that we, the people who have build and grown EVERYTHING, are the one that are in the way. Because that's what they are leading us to believe and there are billions of people out there who would phraise everything I just said in millions of ways.
I know all the good things Engineers have done and are doing, and I'm trying to convince my father all the time, but the negative things stick because they make the few so much richer than the positive things that make the rest so much richer.