Thirty years of spreading awareness, which includes a goodly chunk of the media being leftists who Believe, and still people do not believe enough to Do Something. They just aren’t willing to give up their modern lives, their liberty, nor see their cost of living skyrocket
How some scientists are trying to get us to care about climate change
Despite life-or-death warnings to curb climate change, the western world isn’t responding as urgently as many climate scientists are hoping.
Rising sea levels and the recent string of record-breaking global temperatures aren’t resonating enough, a conservation scientist and educator said in a phone interview with CTVNews.ca.
“Showing photos of decimated coral reef will tug at your heartstrings, but I’m not sure if it will actually change the way you vote or the choices that you really make,†said Sanjayan Muttulingam, CEO of Conservation International, a non-profit that works to protect natural resources for people’s livelihood and food.
This seems to be confirmed by the alarming admission from scientists that Canada is nowhere close to its own targets in fighting climate change. According to Muttulingam, westerners would change their behaviours if they “fully appreciated how this is impacting their own lives in a real way.â€
CTVNews.ca spoke to Muttulingam and a climate change economics professor who both say they’re part of a growing cohort attempting to answer people who are bluntly asking: “Who cares? How’ll this actually affect me?â€
And the non-rabid believers, the casual members who have the same beliefs as the hardcores but haven’t transitioned to genuflecting to Al Gore daily, can see that the “solutions” will cause problems in their own lives. Really, it’s something they read about and more on.
They’re hoping to re-frame the scientific conversation by explaining how climate change is ruining the things people love and impacting their personal finances.
“Science isn’t science, until it’s communicated,†Muttulingam argued. But by failing to always put “humans at the centre of the equation,†he believes scientists inadvertently misjudged their audience.
“When it starts hitting our pocketbooks, our jobs, or the health of our children, that’s when you are going to start seeing consumers more willing to act than ever,†he said.
Nice! They’re going to give the “let’s try and scare the crap out of people” talking points a try. Considering they’ve been trying this for 30 years, I don’t think it’s going to work.
