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> propagandists advancing world views detached from any empirical or rational belief The linked article is entirely empirical, and frankly seems like a good ex
by ajross 3y ago
> propagandists advancing world views detached from any empirical or rational belief
The linked article is entirely empirical, and frankly seems like a good explainer for the lay public to understand what's happening. Your post seems a little like a strawman. Are you arguing against anything in particular?
- zmgsabst 3y agoThis is the second paragraph: > Despite this destruction, scientists keep coming to an odd conclusion: The Earth is growing greener. Not green in the metaphorical “sustainable” sense, but in the literal color green. But this is something we knew two decades ago when I was a tween — not an “odd conclusion”. (The article implies four decades ago.) The only way you’d find it “odd” is if you followed The Science(TM) rather than scientific investigation.
- ajross 3y agoYou're leaping from those two words[1] to a conspiracy around something you're calling "The Science(TM)"... Again, this seems like a very readable and worthwhile article to me. Explainer articles are Vox's specialty, and this frankly seems like a pretty good one. It's good you were paying attention four decades ago, not everyone was, and it's good that someone is trying to detail this for the people who weren't. [1] Which can easily be interpreted as "surprising to the reader", which seems not at all controversial to me.