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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I'm not a climate change denier, but climate change can be conveniently inserted into any political debate, down to the most domestic and local level ( Example). Perhaps advocates of this approach feel that it will mobilize our energy to combatting climate change. For me it has the opposite effect: it cheapens the concept as people attach their own personal hobby horses to it, often for opportunistic gain (e.g. researchers who are told to add the words "climate change" to a funding proposal, no matter how tenuous). |
People really love disaster porn and apocalyptic scenarios. I guess this is why they're a feature of so many religions and why politicians use them so effectively.
Climate change is a real thing but it isn't very dramatic when viewed on a human timescale. Sea level rise is in the millimeters per year. Average temperature increases are a fraction of a degree per decade. But I see those "what if all the ice on earth melted" maps a lot more frequently than average sea level rise scenarios for 50 or 100 years in the future, which are more relevant but less exciting.