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Well, it's NORMAL to have deniers in general, because any change, especially if substantial and not pleasant got denied en mass in a general population. That's
by kkfx 2y ago
Well, it's NORMAL to have deniers in general, because any change, especially if substantial and not pleasant got denied en mass in a general population. That's a classic psychological phenomenon.
In this case it's more normal since most of those talking about climate change, those most listened by the people are objectively PRs who push and agenda using the climate as an excuse and the others talk about mean values changes people typically do not understand. The average Joe hearing about +1.5℃ imaging a daily maxima +1.5℃, that's is. So switching from 30℃ to 31.5℃ (88.7℉) it's unpleasant but not that dramatic. The average Joe can't think about ANNUAL mean values vs extreme values during the years, for instance.
Anyway: IF we want to share the relevance of climate change it's about time to talk about food crisis and how hard is sourcing food around the world. We should show, locally, area per area, the amplitude and effects of extreme weather events. We should state clearly WE CAN'T AVOID THE CHANGE just reducing the animal flatulence etc, we MUST adapt. Then we mast be realistic stating clear that many currently densely inhabited places have no future fully knowing the real estate storm that will follow, and observing where we can instead go and how, or cease the rhetoric about smart cities, novel Fordlandia equally distopic with equal (no) future and admit we can only implement the New Deal at PERSONAL/FAMILIAR/SME level creating small buildings not wasting gazillion of resources in un-evolvable hyper fragile modern dense cities.
While most people do fear any change, to reject any change, to not understand any change a thing like the 2030 Agenda it's understood enough, the current impoverishment of all, especially of the middle class is very understood. The rest it's not since like every years we witness people die from heat not only working because they need to but also at the beach because "they do not have consider much their body tolerance to heat".
I know it's unpopular among current US Liberals dreaming the friendly, social, connected nice and dice clean, silent and green city, but sorry, I'm between those who have studied and implemented the Green New Deal building a new home, all electric car included with p.v. etc, I know enough to understand what could be done and what not. If you the reader are one of them try to draw yourself a possible or impossible scenario and share your conclusion and process.
- soco 2y agoAnd then you have voters which think doing agriculture is pointless because yall could shop for vegetables at Target.
- defrost 2y ago> and the others talk about mean values changes people typically do not understand. Perhaps it's because I grew up near the coast and read tides charts to go fishing but I, and all the average Joes I know with a similar background, understand MSL (Mean Sea Level) how a small rise there is unusual and distinct from the moon related King Lows, and King Highs that flux by tens of metres.