Den Menschen zu sagen, dass die Welt in Flammen steht, dass wir alle dem Untergang geweiht sind und dass es zu spät ist, uns selbst zu retten, ist eine schreckliche Umweltbotschaft, wenn es um globale Erwärmung und Klimawandel geht, heißt es in einer globalen Studie mit fast 60.000 Teilnehmern …
https://www.cyberpunksurvivalguide.com/p/climate-change-gloom-and-doom-backfires/
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The cyberpunk survival guide is a scientific publication now?
Yeah well, telling them that there’s still time to change course and do things differently didn’t really work either.
What if we asked people whether Climate Change is real, caused by humans, and we owe it to future generations to reduce the negative effects of it?
Or did they only ask the ridiculous, overblown, straw man version of that question?
It’s terrible messaging for human health
We’re not doomed because of anything to do with the state of the planet. We’re doomed because we are literally monkeys with nukes.
Apprently that includes using copious amounts of AI art on your website
i think the best way to message is to find reasons that give more immediate benefits like better air quality, lower food costs, less migration in the future
But… I use paper straws.
Good luck trying to convince the average American. I unfortunately know a homosexual, Covid denying methhead on Medicaid that watches Fox News. They’re literally too dumb.
„Don’t look uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup !“
Unfortunately, you need to tell people what’s going on. But ALSO the good things that can come out to make sure the future is not that completely doomed (dang, i said it again…)
But if you look at the skies you’ll see more planes. The hunger for data centers is growing in a rythm never seen and they don’t plan on stopping. Wars are on 24h display, people get tense even for the slightest thing.
We have a guy in France, Arthur Keller, that makes tough conferences about those matters. 2 hours. And he says at the beginning to the attendants that they need to stay untill the end on leave at once. Because the first part is the state of things that are and that will be, the second part is the means to ease what is coming.
Either you lie to the people struggling with end of the month stuff, or tell them the truth about the end of this world.
You cannot be taken seriously if you tell them to go the happy sobriety way, when they already struggle not to fall into poverty, and watch rich people on social networks doing rich people’s stuff.
I think people are getting the message on their own
Yes Thats what they were teaching my 10 year old I brought in an article from Nature (a well respected science magazine) that showed why this approach did not eork The was 25 years ago in Ottawa school system
Since when is telling people the truth a bad idea?
Oh no, the absolutely true message is terrible! Whatever shall we do?
The world is on fire, but we’re not all doomed. The rich have been building bunkers and will be fine.
Reading these comments leaves me so confused. A. Was there a binding democratic global election to decide whether to continue the use of fossil fuel ? B. Did the global top 1% who hold >1/3 of all global wealth decide to stop climate change but now the 99% are dragging their shoeless feet ? C. Did commenters here arrange an armed rebellion but no one showed up ? D. Is the whole system rigged to accumulate power & wealth to the top no matter the global repercussions ?
r/NoShitSherlock
No kidding, people want to know how climate affects them right now, not how it may affect their grandchildren in the future. Change the messaging to “it will bring an increase of climate refugees to come to your country” and watch them clutch their pearls about how they will be flooded with *gasp* immigrants.
Well, yeah. A lot of people have decided to do the dance of the red death — if we’re all gonna die, they’re deciding to go out partying with a bang.
What we need to do is give people hope. How to do that given the current situation is an interesting puzzle.
If the truth were a great and beautiful thing then we would have never invented lying.
There is no sugar coated way to put things at this point. Best case scenario is mitigation, and if we want to ensure the minimal impact to us and the planet as a whole we needed to start about 20 years ago.