The tragedy of climate change science? The broken science-society contract? Seriously?!?

[citizenschallengev4]

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@martin-peter-clarke

Make climate science denial a humanist issue or get off the pot.

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@citizenschallengev4

Under the heading of: STOP BLAMING SCIENCE FOR OUR OWN FAILURES!

It’s astounding. We keep missing the point! Humanity failed itself!

Mr. Science explained the basics of climate scientific in the 1950’s and nothing, nothing has changed about the fundamental geophysical reality and the direction that reality points to! Nor the consequences of, (whichever choice we made). The science has become more informed ever since. Nothing changed about the outline, we’ve simply been increasing the resolution on the folds within folds of harmonic complexity that is our global heat engine. In so far as the science goes, scientists did what they were supposed to do.

This has been a collective mass societal willful denial of fundamental science, because the consequences of doing the right thing for future generations appalled us.
Less growth, less greed? “You gotta be kidding!”

The fact of Anthropogenic Global Warming made clear to every thinking person who looked at it, is that humanity had one simple choice. Increasing Earth’s temperature will force cascading consequences that will profoundly supercharge weather, and degrade our biosphere, plus damage and destroy our infrastructure. No maybe about it.*

{ or you could think of the lesson stars have taught us, the bigger it is, the more it consumes, the faster it burns up, the faster it dies.}*

The choice was clear.

If we cared about the wellbeing of future generations, enough to prioritize them, we needed to Power Down, less greed, less kids, less consumption, less military, less commerce, less raping our Home Planet’s biosphere.
Instead, more awareness towards Earth, Evolution and Deep Time, which would have given us the information that would have enabled a better appreciation of time along with sense of duty towards the welfare of this miracle planet - who’s biosphere and global heat and moisture distribution engine created us and sustains us.

Instead we collectively embraced: “I hate taxes so I’m going to normalize blatant lies and slander and misrepresentation along with demonstrable fraud against science.”

No one stood up to take down that sort of self-delusional, self-destructive thinking and behavior. Instead it became normalized to the point that a hollow corporate cypher like Trump is made leader of our nation, and all he wants is to trash his government.

All the while the brainiacs from every branch of our society and media simply keep on talking past each other. But we regular mortal are supposed to continue kowtowing to their theater while our society falls apart around us.

Why do we so easily allow simple demonstrable facts to become irrelevant?
How can someone claim that isn’t a humanist appropriate topic of discussion?

It’s a question that strikes to heart of being a human creature navigating a complicated life.