Jul 24, 2024 06:22 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 24, 2024 06:23 PM by C C.)
Cynic's Corner: As long as the talking-heads keep opportunistically recruiting the real threat of climate change for their political agenda -- conflating it with the latter and promoting such in that context -- people who are capable of conceptually perceiving that kind of ideological exploitation will continue to tune out, just as they do with ordinary soapbox preachers.
Simply dispense the science itself and leave the appended socioeconomic wailing (aka climate justice), decolonization rhetoric, and moral damnation to the literary intellectuals and their Marxist cultural analysis toadshit pool. In response, maybe the frenzied climate deniers on the other side will relax their predictable antibiotic response to anti-Western propaganda, and the persistent inflammation will finally dissipate in aspirin-like fashion.
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What would it take to 'alarm' Americans about climate change?
https://www.splinter.com/what-would-it-t...ate-change
INTRO: How would you describe your resting climate change mindset? As the heat waves continue to scorch the country, early-season hurricanes leave swathes of flooding and destruction behind them, and wildfires start to chew up the West, are you alarmed? Concerned? Cautious?
Those are three of the options identified by some long-standing research from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which divides the populace of both this country and the world into those and three other possible attitudes — disengaged, doubtful, and dismissive. The definitions here are fairly straightforward; how worried are you and how much do you think we should be doing about it, from “much, much more” to “stop doing anything, it’s not real.”
In its latest analysis out Tuesday, the U.S. fares… poorly.
Among the world’s top 15 emitting countries (notably omitting China, Russia, and Iran, for lack of data), this country ranks 11th in the percentage of “alarmed” respondents at 32 percent, ahead of only Australia, Germany, and Indonesia. Adding in the “concerned,” or those who support climate policy but sorta less so than alarmed people, we manage 55 percent in total, tied with Indonesia and just ahead of those other two laggards.
And notably, we have the highest proportion of “doubtful” and “dismissive” people, at 25 percent. USA! USA!
That 32 percent number for the alarmed of America is remarkable, given the sheer number of people who have been facing down the most extreme heat of their lives in recent years, not to mention the increased flooding and wildfire and so on. And the alarm has percolated through plenty of other places, including those high emitters; Mexico leads the way, at 62 percent alarmed and another 22 percent concerned — which might explain why that country just elected a climate scientist to its presidency. Attitudes in other places including India and Brazil are similar.... (MORE - details)
Simply dispense the science itself and leave the appended socioeconomic wailing (aka climate justice), decolonization rhetoric, and moral damnation to the literary intellectuals and their Marxist cultural analysis toadshit pool. In response, maybe the frenzied climate deniers on the other side will relax their predictable antibiotic response to anti-Western propaganda, and the persistent inflammation will finally dissipate in aspirin-like fashion.
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What would it take to 'alarm' Americans about climate change?
https://www.splinter.com/what-would-it-t...ate-change
INTRO: How would you describe your resting climate change mindset? As the heat waves continue to scorch the country, early-season hurricanes leave swathes of flooding and destruction behind them, and wildfires start to chew up the West, are you alarmed? Concerned? Cautious?
Those are three of the options identified by some long-standing research from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which divides the populace of both this country and the world into those and three other possible attitudes — disengaged, doubtful, and dismissive. The definitions here are fairly straightforward; how worried are you and how much do you think we should be doing about it, from “much, much more” to “stop doing anything, it’s not real.”
In its latest analysis out Tuesday, the U.S. fares… poorly.
Among the world’s top 15 emitting countries (notably omitting China, Russia, and Iran, for lack of data), this country ranks 11th in the percentage of “alarmed” respondents at 32 percent, ahead of only Australia, Germany, and Indonesia. Adding in the “concerned,” or those who support climate policy but sorta less so than alarmed people, we manage 55 percent in total, tied with Indonesia and just ahead of those other two laggards.
And notably, we have the highest proportion of “doubtful” and “dismissive” people, at 25 percent. USA! USA!
That 32 percent number for the alarmed of America is remarkable, given the sheer number of people who have been facing down the most extreme heat of their lives in recent years, not to mention the increased flooding and wildfire and so on. And the alarm has percolated through plenty of other places, including those high emitters; Mexico leads the way, at 62 percent alarmed and another 22 percent concerned — which might explain why that country just elected a climate scientist to its presidency. Attitudes in other places including India and Brazil are similar.... (MORE - details)