Humans are incredibly bad at envisioning things on a large scale, especially something as (relatively) gradual as climate change.
I have hope that enough people in government are/will be making meaningful inroads with regard to climate change, but I don’t think the public will get it until Florida and Louisiana have sunk into the Gulf.
I don’t think it’s climate scientists’ fault; I think it’s incredibly difficult for average people to grasp the big picture, mixed with contrarians and oil industry lobbying/propaganda working against those efforts.
until Florida and Louisiana have sunk into the Gulf.
To be more clear about what this looks like in the medium term, consider Katrina level events in Florida happening more and more often. It’ll be hurricanes causing flooding first.
It’s the fault of politicians who underfunded or hobbled education. Helped with the factors you mentioned of course, but if average people were better educated they could better grasp the big picture.
We could only hope, yet well-educated people still believe gods who will come fix everything are self-evident facts of reality. Still, being better educated certainly wouldn’t make things worse.
This is not about personal responsibility, it is about power. No amount of education protects you from misinformation, or a lack of information, when powerful people have a financial interest in burying the truth.
Not directly on a large scale, but average people vote for candidates, from the city council to whatever the highest office is, and they do.
If Average Person A doesn’t grasp the imminent danger, they’re not going to prioritize picking a candidate that has climate change policy as a platform issue.
Humans are incredibly bad at envisioning things on a large scale, especially something as (relatively) gradual as climate change.
I have hope that enough people in government are/will be making meaningful inroads with regard to climate change, but I don’t think the public will get it until Florida and Louisiana have sunk into the Gulf.
I don’t think it’s climate scientists’ fault; I think it’s incredibly difficult for average people to grasp the big picture, mixed with contrarians and oil industry lobbying/propaganda working against those efforts.
To be more clear about what this looks like in the medium term, consider Katrina level events in Florida happening more and more often. It’ll be hurricanes causing flooding first.
It’s the fault of politicians who underfunded or hobbled education. Helped with the factors you mentioned of course, but if average people were better educated they could better grasp the big picture.
We could only hope, yet well-educated people still believe gods who will come fix everything are self-evident facts of reality. Still, being better educated certainly wouldn’t make things worse.
… who are funded by Big Carbon.
This is not about personal responsibility, it is about power. No amount of education protects you from misinformation, or a lack of information, when powerful people have a financial interest in burying the truth.
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Not directly on a large scale, but average people vote for candidates, from the city council to whatever the highest office is, and they do.
If Average Person A doesn’t grasp the imminent danger, they’re not going to prioritize picking a candidate that has climate change policy as a platform issue.