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There are times you can politicize an issue. A flood that killed a bunch of young kids at a summer camp is not one of them. Articles like this do more harm tha
by erulabs 1y ago
There are times you can politicize an issue. A flood that killed a bunch of young kids at a summer camp is not one of them.
Articles like this do more harm than good. Either you already believe climate change is an issue and this changes nothing, or you don’t and this looks like exactly the sort of politicization that a denier supposes the entire global warming issue to be. You gain no allies and you galvanize opponents. I wouldn’t care if it was ineffective but it’s actually destructive.
The article starts by blaming lack of personnel, then goes on to say this community gets warnings day and night and gets alarm fatigue. The real issue is “weather is horribly hard to predict”, but we don’t get to any of this before speculation about blame. Every word drips with desire to blame, and virtually no sorrow at the tragedy is to be found.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- _fs 1y ago> There are times you can politicize an issue. A flood that killed a bunch of young kids at a summer camp is not one of them. This is the same argument that is made after every single school shooting in America. How dare we seek solutions after tragedy. Lets just stick to thoughts and prayers
- erulabs 1y agoIf the full summary of your recommendation on problems like private property and weather prediction is “you should have voted for my team”, youre not actually participating in solving the issue. Did we understaff? Did we cause alarm fatigue? Can the states systems be upgraded? A true investigation into the issue would be great. This is not that.