we are buried to our eyeballs in doom and gloom fearmongering about global warming, and i'd like to see it stop.
if you want people to care about climate change, one of the worst ways to go about it is to constantly spout off language such as "worse than previously thought", "irreversible", "urgent", "disastrous", anything alluding to the generally screwed nature of today's young people, or anything like that. threat based rhetoric.
being constantly bathed in the negativity causes people to become fatalistic and apathetic, lose interest in the message, which is the last thing we need, if it really needs to be said. why not focus on what people can do do better the situation instead?
can i go one day without hearing or seeing anything which doesn't imply that i'll have to clean after the messes created by my forebears? please?
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First, like any stimulus, individuals are likely to become desensitized to the message. The public have a limited carrying capacity and finite pool of worry, especially when confronted as is the case today with extreme and immediate economic threats and risks.
Second, dramatizing climate change in terms of the most extreme impacts and using exaggerated imagery also risks damaging trust in the messenger, whether it be environmentalists, scientists, political leaders or the media.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, when individuals are confronted with messages that present risks which are perceived beyond their control to manage—and they are given little information about what can be done—they cope psychologically with that risk by engaging in self-denial (i.e. “Other people will get cancer, but I won’t” or “climate change is not real” or “the impacts of climate change won’t affect me.”) Or they cope with the risk by becoming fatalistic and apathetic, believing that there is nothing to be done about a risk such as climate change.
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