alt Hacker News60-70% for a politician or political position is high. For believing in reality it's low.
If you asked "Do cigarettes contribute to lung cancer", you'd expect 95%+. Our evidence for climate change is on-par with that, and yet the rich have run a wildly successful campaign to cast doubt on it for years.
If people really appreciated the gravity of it, we would not have trump, a demonstrably anti-climate president who has rolled back green policies and slowed decarbonization, and even ran on it. Apparently spiting the "other side" is more important than our planet's long term habitability.
> If you asked "Do cigarettes contribute to lung cancer", you'd expect 95%+. Our evidence for climate change is on-par with that, and yet the rich have run a wildly successful campaign to cast doubt on it for years.
By the ruling class, yes of course. Not society at large. Citzens overwhelmingly favor action. The numbers don't lie.
Unfortunately people have been fooled into ignoring reality and this emotion and outrage being used to make them believe that it's not politically possible, and it's their fellow citizens who are to blame. That's probably the biggest and most insidious part of the climate disinformation campaign.
> If people really appreciated the gravity of it, we would not have trump, a demonstrably anti-climate president who has rolled back green policies and slowed decarbonization, and even ran on it. Apparently spiting the "other side" is more important than our planet's long term habitability.
Yes absolutely the current state of politics is most assuredly a result of western society's transition from building consensus on reason to building consensus on feelings.