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It's like the climate people never heard the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". It's exactly that.
by Izkata 6mo ago
It's like the climate people never heard the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". It's exactly that.
- idiotsecant 6mo agoWho are 'The climate people' you seem to think are doing this? Do you think there is a club where the climate people president takes a vote from the climate people council on how many news stories hacknews user Izkata should read? If you lived under a big precarious rock and people always talked about the big rock falling on you would you ignore the big rock because the big rock people keep crying wolf? This is honestly the most baffling worldview.
- senordevnyc 6mo agoIf you lived under a big precarious rock and people always talked about the big rock falling on you would you ignore the big rock because the big rock people keep crying wolf? Yeah, that’s exactly what we do, all the time. From nuclear weapons to pandemics to climate change, people become accustomed to the background risks they live under, and go about their lives. Especially when there’s almost nothing they can do about it anyway. And well-meaning people constantly predicting calamities that don’t materialize only hasten that process.
- joquarky 6mo agoYes, this is what most people do. If you don't know people like this, then try visiting a large church.
- postflopclarity 6mo agoexcept that every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some people, but then the people it didn't eat were like "idk what you're talking about, I'm doing just fine" and then plugged their ears.
- cagey 6mo agoWell that's not how I heard the fable, and not how the authoritative reference recalls it either[0]. If "every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some people", then it would hardly be a fable about giving a false alarm, would it? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
- postflopclarity 6mo ago... yes. that's my point. the fable is not a good analogy in this context.
- joquarky 6mo agoAnyone who doesn't get this must have lived under a rock during COVID-19.