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Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger. (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, I did what I’ve done during my entire 40 year career—I tried to warn people. Except that the warning was not well received by everyone. A person accused me of being a “climate militant,” a suggestion that I’m embellishing extreme weather threats to drive an agenda. Another simply said that my predictions were “an exaggeration.”

But it wasn’t an exaggeration.

John Morales is an atmospheric & environmental scientist, and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Why did people so quickly lose the ability to think, when fake news came around and became part of our lives?

It's easy, it comes down to:

Like, oh, this doesn't come from a YouTuber, it's John warning about something, he knows what he's talking about, let's maybe pay attention now?

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because they made human survival, both at the individual and species wide levels, political. Because of course they would. It's the ultimate trump card in the game. Once you've dropped the "we're all gonna die" card, nothing else can matter more. So if you can make arguing about which thing will kill us more or faster a vehicle for gaining control over the masses because there's no argument against it other than "nuh-uh!" Tbh I doubt it even really matters to the dems that they happen to be right on this one as long as it keeps them in power. In fact if this stopped being an issue they might actually lose power; that's why they've let it get this out of control in the first place. I'm gonna vote for them anyway because what choice do I really have, but... oof I guess. It makes sense how we got here but... oof.