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I don't understand your argument. Humor me for a moment and assume that human induced climate change is real and that a sizable fraction of policy makers and t
by ithkuil 3y ago
I don't understand your argument.
Humor me for a moment and assume that human induced climate change is real and that a sizable fraction of policy makers and the general public fully understands the consequences and wants to do something about it.
What do you expect to be the observables in that case? I would expect the public to pressure the policy makers in creating policies that reward behaviour that counters the factors that have been identified as causes of the said climate change.
Also since humans are messy and imperfect, I'd also expect that these policies are confusing, imperfect sometimes even dishonest.
And since humans are humans, these policies will involve shaming other humans to do the right thing, so I'm not at all surprised that a bunch of humans don't like being shamed into doing something, and resist.
I find what's unfolding to fit well with the hypothesis that humanity has been persuaded that something has to be done.