Why are we as a species so willing to believe in doomsday scenarios that virtually never materialise?https://buff.ly/2utYBKt
Because we're descended from social hominids that took seriously even small risks of tribal extinction?
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In all seriousness, it’s probably due to our collective oral history passed down through the ages. As a species we’ve been around for tens/hundreds of thousands of years, the amount of natural phenomena that cause wide spread cataclysm is unimaginable. Ice Ages, volcanoes, etc.
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@GISOC_info Yes but for the first time we will modify climate too quickly. And we do not act to avoid that. Soon it will be too late for CO2. It is the only good reason to be very anxious.@ModusPwnensWGS@realAAAbbott@erikbryn@StephanSavarese - 7 more replies
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It's the rational, and evolutionarily adaptive, thing to do
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