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The problem is propaganda. Climate change is the victim. Even staples of modern life, like vaccines, can be sullied by the private interests of the ultra wealt
by metalgearsolid 7y ago
The problem is propaganda. Climate change is the victim.
Even staples of modern life, like vaccines, can be sullied by the private interests of the ultra wealthy/politically affluent.
- dmix 7y agoI don’t even think that’s the primary problem. I think the average person doesn’t give a shit about stuff like this, at least not to the point where they have to make personal sacrifices. It’s very very easy to live your daily life and not see any real world consequences outside of some sometimes shrill activists who aren’t the most persuasive people to the average lowest common denominator people. For one thing these sorts of people won’t be hanging out on an MIT website called EN-ROADS. Indifference is the biggest enemy, not some big orchestrated conspiracy (although there is some of that too, but that doesn’t explain why even most liberals aren’t doing anything about it).
- plutonorm 7y agoThey don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to. The narrative has been set by private interests for decades - perhaps hundreds of years. So now these opinions look like they are coming from the grass roots.
- asdf21 7y ago>They don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to No, they don't give a shit because they don't need to. It doesn't affect their daily lives.
- dmix 7y agoI live in Canada where the media is constantly harping on climate change so I’m not convinced it’s that powerful.
- plutonorm 7y agoI agree. The biggest problem the world is facing is the ability to buy opinion with money. Money buys you propoganda. We need to totally abandon the free market model in the information sphere.
- solarwind 7y agoGoes both ways. The alarmists using "carbon" as a synonym for carbon dioxide is a form of propaganda. https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/25/carbon-is-not-a-synonym-for-carbon-dioxide/ https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/25/carbon-is-not-a-synonym-for...
- breakyerself 7y agoIt's less than half as many syllables. That's just how people are.
- hanniabu 7y agoI agree, this is why a recent report has labelled Fox News as a national security risk [1] because when reporting on such topics they ignore facts and propagate sensationalist nonsense. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/fox-news-is-now-a-threat-to-national-security/ https://www.wired.com/story/fox-news-is-now-a-threat-to-nati...