Dr. Lucky Tran Jun 21, 2023

Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…

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Show threadUserd503Jun 21, 2023
@luckytran corporations, scientists, journalists. Why is there no talk of consumers? They are the ones driving the cars, having the multiple Amazon deliveries each week, going on flights, using AC and heat well beyond what the human body needs. Why are consumers never put on the stand?
Show threadPsittacus cafeinaJun 22, 2023

@Userd503 @luckytran

Your have a completely inverted idea of how fault works. Your list relies on regulations being gutted by oil, anti-labor, oil again, and the final bit is largely irrelevant. What's household AC use compared to corporate?

The answer is because the economy was supposed to be different. Popularly-elected politicians enacted popular legislation to reign in the corps that a captured SCOTUS then hollowed out. Reagan enabled fascist ideology to propagate like never before.

Show threadPsittacus cafeina

@Userd503 @luckytran

What kind of loser do you have to be to try to pin global catastrophe on the lowest individuals, anyway? Absolute madness.

Jun 22, 2023 at 1:36pmWeb