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More than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in 2022 due to extreme weather.
Around 480,000 of them were unable to return.
This is about three times the number of evacuees up to 2021.
Perhaps both those attitudes are at least partly shaped by a lack of imaginative connection to other people?
In any case, the trick is to address these beliefs by appealing to people's self-interest (I believe), which is, uh, challenging.
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It is very hard to design one message that might reach both these categories of people.
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The attitudes of many people I know who don't work on climate tend to fall into two categories:
A) It sucks for the poor but money will save *us* — and isn't climate change supposed to be a lot less bad than we thought anyway? So 🤷
B) We are all doomed. So 🤷
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"Large parts of [Pakistan] remain inundated...[Its] flooded areas now look like a huge series of permanent lakes, transforming forever the terrain and the lives of people living there."
Scientists discovered why Roman buildings have survived so long. It's because they included an ingredient in their concrete – once thought to be from shoddy mixing – that helps the concrete self-heal as it cracks over time. The discovery may help future concrete mixes become self-healing and last longer.
Loved this article about people who switched jobs to work on climate change.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-05/how-to-quit-your-job-to-fight-climate-change
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