Guest essay by Eric Worrall
With climate skepticism soaring, and what could be the opening moves of WW3 distracting public attention, climate worriers are in despair about how to regain public attention.
Climate change’s attention deficit disorder
By Joel Makower
March 7, 2022Remember climate change?
It’s not an entirely facetious question. With a brutal war and humanitarian crisis raging in Eastern Europe, a resulting global energy crisis, a quickly unfolding food crisis, a shaky global economy, raging inflation — oh, and a still-rampaging pandemic, with all its health and mental health impacts — it’s been not-so-easy to keep the climate crisis top of mind.
Did I mention that there’s increasing talk about World War III?
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Folks are exhausted. I’m exhausted simply writing the previous three paragraphs.
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But skepticism is growing, too, she said. “Twenty percent believe it’s just not real, not happening and not caused by man. We haven’t seen a 20 percent number since about 2008 or 2009. I mean, it’s just unbelievable.”
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It’s not that Americans have turned away from environmental issues. According to Shelton, 90 percent believe plastic trash is contaminating waterways and oceans more than ever before, up from 77 percent in 2020. “We’re super worried about plastics in the ocean. We’re not so worried about climate change.“
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Read more: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/climate-changes-attention-deficit-disorder
Marc Morano predicted in 2010 that plastics could be the next fake crisis. Given plastic is in pretty much everything, a deluge of new over the top plastic regulations has every bit as much potential to mess up our quality of life as climate scare carbon pricing.
But it is good to see yet more evidence the fake climate scare seems to be on the way out.
I believe there will always be another hobgoblin, there is no standing still when it comes to debunking nonsense. Millions of years of being everyone’s lunch has geared our brains to assume the worst, made it way too easy for some people to believe the unbelievable. But evolution has also given us brains, logic, reason, and the internet – the tools we need to ridicule empty scare stories like the climate crisis or the plastic crisis, and hopefully keep purveyors of such myths from doing too much harm in the future.
Top points if anyone remembers who the person in the photo at the top of the page is.
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It has to be much higher than 20%. If 80% of people believed we were on the verge of catastrophe, don’t you think far more people would be seriously changing their lifestyles to reduce their personal carbon footprint? I just don’t see it happening. All the alarmists I work with have massive carbon footprints. If they truly thought it was existential, you would think they’d act accordingly. My thought is “alarmism” is just their “MAGA” hat. That or they’re waiting for someone else to go first or for government mandates. But why wait if it truly is existential?
Every Green that I know personally has an enormous carbon footprint. They think that any restrictions which are required to cut the world’s carbon dioxide emissions don’t apply to them. They are the chosen few who will tell everybody else what they can do.
I believe that’s Queen Victoria!
That’s Greta Garbo there, right?
A scared population is a controlled population.
Jane Fonda?
I am going to guess the picture is of the Canadian Prime Minister and was taken at one of his numerous wacky crazy fancy dress parties on the rare occasion he couldn’t find any face paint.
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I give up. I’m drawing a blank. Lead singer in a girl band?
The pic is of the delinquent teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert.
“evolution has also given us brains, logic, reason, and the internet”
Wow! I don’t think that even Darwin could have envisaged evolution giving us all those things. But, if we are just a mass of cells which have evolved over time, where does the logic and reason come into it? And if we are just a mass of cells, how do we know that the conclusions we reach are reasonable and logical? If our thought processes are just the result of the activity of brain cells, how can we tell if what the brain tells us is logical or reasonable?
Its the Scandinavian goblin of doom!!
James Delingpole calls her the Doom Pixie.
The person in that photo is Great Thor, god of little raffia work things.