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.
I 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).
They 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.
I 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|6 years ago
breakyerself|6 years ago
dmix|6 years ago
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|6 years ago
plutonorm|6 years ago
hanniabu|6 years ago
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