> “Again and again, the same message,” she tweeted recently. “Listen to the scientists, listen to the scientists. Listen to the scientists!”<p>And the mainstream media keeps reporting this while completely ignoring the scientists.
Are there any compelling papers or presentations on the impact and science of climate change? Virtually all reporting presents/qualifies it as 'what scientists say'. Since the convention in journalism is to create doubt for the reader by phrasing something as 'person <i>says</i>' I find these articles easy to ignore.
Something worth noting that likely gets ignored regarding the topic of climate change. Some of the population really doesn’t care if the world becomes inhabitable for humans after they die. As an optimist I’ve observed this outlook and I think it’s because quality of life has actually diminished from the visibility of social media and rising cost of homes. I could be wrong on the cause but the original problem exists and I wonder if society needs to improve for the mid to lower classes before people have the desire to help in the protests.
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I think a lot of these things go in 4 year cycles, with the American elections.<p>Not to dismiss climate change-- it's a real issue-- but the publicity around it is certainly tied to politics.
With the human population growing exponentially, its a certainty that we will breeze by the 1.5 degrees limit very soon.<p>People don't want to give up their cheeseburgers, all excuses are good, and the level of misinformation that goes around the topic of climate change is through the roof.<p>I'm glad Greta is contributing to informing the general public of the consequences of their choices but people don't want to hear it will take a lifetime to change the behavior of even a small amount of people.
We will have overpopulation and environmental crises in the future and they will get explained away mindlessly as being completely caused by climate change, when that may be only a partial or even not significant factor in the events.<p>Not enough fresh water - climate change! Not the fact that the population increased by a factor of 4, and the local acquifers have been drained.