what matters is the story implied by the graphs. If you show a graph of shrinking glaciers starting from 1950 , the story being told is "look, human emissions

what matters is the story implied by the graphs. If you show a graph of shrinking glaciers starting from 1950 , the story being told is "look, human emissions have triggered a sudden recession in glaciers, implying a looming cataclysm". If you show the graph starting from 1860, showing that the bulk of the recession occurred before industry, then the story is " we are seeing a warming trend that likely started 1000 years ago or further" The first story convinces people that human emissions are the primary cause, and the solution is degrowth. The second story is that climate is cyclical, and the solution is identifying the specific threats to human welfare and addressing those.