“You say...that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that, because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that I refuse to believe.”pic.twitter.com/SA06P4bXZ7
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She’s also good at getting people to *feel* and then ACT out of their moral responsibility. Someone just DM’ed me: “Her fury is really effecting”. It certainly was for me. I sent a version of this thread internally at Amazon, which was terrifying.https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1074453652327124993?s=21 …
Kyle Griffin
The science has been known for 30 years. And here is where we are. Yes, we absolutely need to unite behind the science. We also need to *move* people’. We need courage in these times. And her courage is contagious. “Courage calls to courage everywhere.”
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I agree with all this, and I'm not saying ignore her. She is a galvanising force, but when the denialists criticise her, I find it useful to steer them onto the science as quickly as possible...1/2
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...although ultimately there are people who are never going to be persuaded, and we shouldn't waste too much energy on them. You can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into in the first place. 2/2
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