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Kevin Ducournau Jul 11, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum

2000

Scientists: “Human activities are adding a tremendous amount of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, trapping heat & leading to #ClimateChange. That will lead to more extreme storms, flooding, drought, higher than average temperatures, the loss of biodiversity, wildfires and more.” 📣

Majority: 🥱🦗

2023
* Earth experiences record breaking heat ☀️, intense flooding 🌊, wildfires & smoke 🔥 , coral bleaching 🪸, loss of biodiversity 🌍 *

Majority: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!?? 😱

@batyalee 🌿Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril I think they look at it like dying of an infectious disease or winning the lottery -- that it most likely won't ever happen to them. Until it causes substantial inconvenience, injury, or financial losses to individuals, they can't be bothered. And even when it does affect them, they think it's a one-off and won't ever happen to them again. Humanity isn't good at understanding statistics and probabilities, and isn't empathetic enough to care about anything or anyone outside their own small circle.

PJT North Jul 11, 2023

It’s past time we grow up as a species. Somehow, someway we need to do it and soon.

Sorry, it’s been a long day of jury duty.

birdpoof Jul 11, 2023

Humans have the attention span and memory of mayflies....

CJ Paloma Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril I generally love your posts, but this perpetuates a bit of a stereotype that big polluting corporations and other big money players are happy to pretend is real. It's not though, not by a long shot.

Corporate media SHAPES public perception about a whole range of topics -including climate change- rather than just reporting on it.

TONS of people care, but -we- the majority of people- are not being amplified. see for example:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y

Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications

A new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.

Nature

Kevin Ducournau Jul 11, 2023

@CJPaloma @Sheril I do not question that public perception, I think you saw right on this one, but if people really cares why CO2 emissions keep raising every year?

ScribblersEmporium Jul 11, 2023

1979: television show, documentary style, whose name I can't remember, spells out clearly the risks of climate change and clearly articulates the main solution is a carbon tax and carbon credit trading.

It's so disappointing to see just how slow we are to change as a global society.

Tim Clancy Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril All true, but even highly persuasive words generally aren't enough to provoke strong action See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

Availability heuristic - Wikipedia

Tim Clancy Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril this likely will have a much more powerful effect (the more visceral the better) Yes I realize it is sadly after the effects of climate change have begun to manifest.

Sheril Kirshenbaum Jul 11, 2023

@archstreet yep. This is what my dissertation is on.

Tim Clancy Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril we are as one 😂

teledyn 𓂀 Jul 11, 2023

"It is regrettable that large groups only come to their senses after their day-dreams have turned into nightmares but, this being so, we should occasionally welcome the nightmares."

— Edsgar Dykstra (1984)

Tim Clancy Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril my favorite cognitive bias

Die Mad 🇨🇦Jul 11, 2023

I WISH the majority was asking that. “F’n hot, eh. When da govmnent gonna do somthin bout dem (immigrants, gays, trans, inflation, gas prices, libs, etc.)” is the more probable response.

Didzis 🚂Jul 11, 2023

@bjornqc @Sheril This ☝🏻 Sadly, but I have to agree with @bjornqc here…

JohnW Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril The phrasing in this leads people to believe that individuals are to blame for climate change. It almost exclusively leaves out corporations. "About the 100 top corporate polluters are to blame for 70%+ of climate change."

Yes, the individual can help, but corporate polluters should get no mercy in any article. The emphasis should be on them.

Erg Noor Jul 11, 2023

@the_Effekt @Sheril

As I sit in my SUV waiting for my double-cheese baconator, I often wonder - why are corporations so evil? Why do they persist in creating so much pollution? It's almost like someone is PAYING them to destroy the planet.

JohnW Jul 11, 2023

@ErgNoor @Sheril

🤔 👀 🙌

AT-AT Assault 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 11, 2023

https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicted-global-warming/

We knew about climate change in the 1800s. The Eighteen Fucking Hundreds.

How 19th-Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming - JSTOR Daily

Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.

JSTOR Daily

Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril I don't think the majority questions anymore "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?". I think the majority now is more like "OMG, IT IS REALLY HAPPENING?"

Rémi Dupré Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril our president literally said "who could have predicted climate change?" a few months ago ... 🇨🇵🐓🥖

Kevin Ducournau Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril You're sadly right... I'm interested in what's your 2046 scientific perspective and majority's reaction! 😉

Mr Robot Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril All done by American and European.

They will use 10x more resources than an Asian for any small work. Americans will drive 20mil to buy a small screw or order from eBay leaving unnecessary carbon emissions, where in Asian countries you can walk 1km and buy those things for 50x cheaper price.

Jeremy Mallin Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril
2000 Jor-El
2023 Krypton explodes

Kjetil Kilhavn Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril
Also Majority: Why did you not warn us‽

Thakur Shab Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril 🖤🖤

Shoq Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril Rupert Murdoch, Jim Inhofe, Newt Gingrich, Charles Koch, and Fox News. That's how. Any other questions?

Sebastian🏳️‍🌈Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril Record breaking heat in Georgia, USA: Business as usual

Atomic Fox Jul 11, 2023

1958.

"Scientists are concerned that the continued addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels will eventually affect the climate. It appears, however, that the progressive replacement of coal by uranium in electric generation should help us avoid this difficulty."

1958!

https://archives.anonradio.net/202109241500_publius.mp3

To see how far the idea was justified, check :
https://isgermanyclean.today/

Cps10001 Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril Exactly. People seem to have been brainwashed.

Mick Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril To be weaned from the petroleum tit will be difficult.

SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril
Worse still are those on the right actively proclaiming that the #ClimateCrisis is a hoax. Of course, the majority are in the pay, directly or indirectly, of the worst polluters, but their ideas are dangerous and dissuade governments from taking the drastic action that's needed.

piperpete Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril
I'm guessing this is meant to be posted in india and china
Or are they omitted from these (human activities lol ) get your message to the biggest polluters in the world.

Gaëtan Perrault Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril thing is, this isn't enough from scientists.

Politicians need a menu of options. They need a cost benefit analysis. They need an accountable body with actual power. Not just a reporting agency.

Climate change mitigation will require the sacrifice of a generation's worth of wealth. No one is going to pay that sacrifice alone.

@Sheril "I don't care what scientists say because the world will end in the year 2000"

Sarah Tuscany Jul 11, 2023

@Sheril People only care when stuff happens to them or maybe it’s just that the problem is so overwhelming

AmonTheMetalHead Jul 12, 2023

@Sheril the first articles about this go back over a 100 years.

AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸Jul 12, 2023

@Sheril It's even worse than that - we knew global warming was coming at least as early as 1914, from all the coal.

DoomsdaysCW Jul 12, 2023

@Sheril This!!!