Spot on:
I don’t want to talk about whether pessimism is accurate. I want to focus on whether it’s useful. People might defend doomsday scenarios as the wake-up call that society needs. If they’re exaggerated, so what? They might be the crucial catalyst that gets us to act on climate change.
Setting aside the moral problem of stretching the truth, this claim is wrong. Scaring people into action doesn’t work. That’s true not just for climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss, but for almost any issue we can think of. We need optimism to make progress — yet that alone isn’t enough. To contend with environmental crises and make life better for everyone, we need the right kind of optimists: those who recognize that the world will only improve if we fight for it.
Source: Why climate doomerism is wrong – Vox
Historically, the world has only gotten better over time for almost everyone.
Yet historically, the world has constantly been faced with prophets predicting the end of life within years. We used to laugh at the image of the forlorn old man holding a “End is Near Sign” – but today, we fly them to IPCC conferences and worship them.
And every one of those doom and gloom prophets was proven wrong.
I’ve discussed this point before – the non-stop fear and hysteria inducing gloomy talk is bull shit, accomplishes nothing, and causes much harm.
There are tremendous reasons to be optimistic and know that humanity is better because ingenuity has made life better through time. If the problems related to climate are real, they will be solved.
The constant doom and fear mongering must stop – it is a total turnoff and is a factor (together with the numerous climate hypocrites) as to how to chase people away from caring.
