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Pop media doesn’t really do nuance. If we have to frame climate change as good or bad, it’s clearly bad. The fact that nuances make it good for some plants, fo
by brookst 3y ago
Pop media doesn’t really do nuance. If we have to frame climate change as good or bad, it’s clearly bad.
The fact that nuances make it good for some plants, for some people, is true and there for those who want details. The problem is that mitigating details are often used to rebut the first order problem. As the brilliant marketing people in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes put it, “giant tomatoes mean bigger pizzas!”
- tasty_freeze 3y agoAnother common refrain from Potholer54 is: don't listen to the media -- what are the climate scientists (the primary sources) saying? But overall the picture is bad. There are regions where things will benefit, and climate research has said so for decades. But overall this rate of change is going to have bad long term consequences for the biosphere (including humans).