The Other Kind of Climate Denialism

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-other-kind-of-climate-denialism

by cribbles • 7 years ago

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sykic• 7 years ago

This quote from the article stuck out to me:

Wallace-Wells hits this note in his book, too, writing, “We seem most comfortable adopting a learned posture of powerlessness.” As uncertainty and denial about climate have diminished, they have been replaced by similarly paralyzing feelings of panic, anxiety, and resignation.

I certainly fall into this group. I sometimes think it’d be better to stop talking about climate change and instead talk about how we all would like to breather clean air, have plastic free rivers and lakes, and soil that isn’t contaminated. I don’t know anyone who is opposed to such things and maybe changing the conversation to these things would sidestep those who believe that climate change is a leftist hoax.

One thing from the article that I did not know and have never heard before is this:

As atmospheric carbon levels rise, plants produce more sugars and fewer nutrients—by 2050, vegetables will be turning into junk food.

Anecdotally it’s been my experience that increasingly fruit that I buy is becoming tasteless and bland. I don’t know the cause or if indeed it’s true but fruit from childhood seems to have tasted better.

blastbeat• 7 years ago

Decarbonizing the economy will be difficult, but it must be done.

Nothing like that is going to happen, as it didn't in the past. To this day we are on straightaway on the "business as usual" trajectory, which ends in collaps. See also

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...

The Other Kind of Climate Denialism

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