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I think this has been known for some time.

Is alarmism real? Yes.

But is human induced climate change real? Also yes.

[Now fight your instinctive (media trained) reaction to those two stated opinions and read on…]

It’s just that climate change is a much smaller and less consequential problem than people have come to believe.

Some people have actually chosen to not have children, because they believe the planet will be uninhabitable by 2150. This kind of stuff is absurd in the extreme.

Cancer is 100 times larger problem than climate change. Cancer kills 1 in 6 people before they reach old age. People you love will die prematurely because of cancer. Yet the climate change agenda gets 50x as much funding globally, as cancer research.

This is a grotesque misallocation of capital, that results in 1.2 billion unnecessary deaths (1 in 6 people!).

You can get large parts of society to believe outlandish things, and once people publicly advocate an opinion they usually get locked in by embarrassment and consistency bias.

Even if it means taking the research funding to save a billion people and spending it on literal King Canute projects.

Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

Which is why I don’t waste time with the caveat that of course our activities can have an impact on the composition of the atmosphere.

They have brainwashed people so completely most are incapable of questioning any of it. They have convinced people the PH levels of the oceans will dissolve the fish without explaining how sea life existed in the past when CO2 levels were much higher than their most pessimistic models predict. And that is just one example of many.

It’s a psyop used to manipulate the public. The otherwise smart people who are capable of seeing the truth aren’t willing to look for many reasons including the ones you listed.

I used to think religion was designed to manipulate people in exactly this same way, but I now believe the right sort of religion is a fractal/scalable antidote to these sorts of mass hysteria that are so prevalent in the modern world. Smart people need to be anchored to the truth via the proper narrative and rituals more than dumb people do. Bitcoin helped me see the value of internalized truths and rituals that reinforce those truths.

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⚡️🌱🌙 2y ago

Yeah, I’m not sure there is much design or forethought to it?

I think people just flock through ideas and beliefs in this manner, rather like murmurations of starlings. No single bird decided that the flock will turn left, its more an expression of a complex system.

For humans the truth has nothing to do with it at all, it’s more a case of behaving predictably to signal trust patterns and loyalty during resource allocation. It’s a sort of compression algorithm for the individual to act in concert with many other individuals in order to create a mutually advantageous structure of some kind.

People fall into these patterns merely by following self interest, not because they followed any instruction. But yes, they can often be severely injurious to people outside of it.