Since people ask, one approach I really like is to aggressively fight air pollution, whose impacts on public health are immeasurably greater than climate change. The changes needed to fight it (moving to renewables and nuclear energy) are congruent with reducing CO2 emissions.
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Apocalyptic climate coverage is only going to encourage denialism and apathy, as well as a backlash once people notice that their lives go on pretty much as before in a warming world. We have a chance to get this right and channel people's alarm in a more constructive direction.
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Well what do you do when the patient has been refusing to listen for 30 years and also his cancer threatens the rest of the world ? And by patient I mean the United States of America.
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There definitely isn't point in alarming anyone anymore, but you could have definitely argued about ten years ago that alarming people was a pointless exercise.
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And you would have been right then too
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overwhelming fear leads to paralysis
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Also: while the cancer's incurable, it could be managed so you'll live an okay life (with some challenges) instead of being eaten up from the inside.
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