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Pro tip: if someone says they're 'very concerned' about climate change, ask them if they're more worried about permafrost melting or about methane clathrate melting. If they don't have an answer ready, they weren't 'concerned' enough to learn much about climate change.
Lots of these replies basically boil down to 'Citizens shouldn't be expected to know _any_ details about a major public policy issue that's been the object of an intense partisan Culture War for decades.' So why have a democracy at all?
Or maybe take a shot at charity and empathy rather than condescension and pedantry?
Empathy for cheap-talk virtue-signaling is how civilization fails.
Citizens don't have to become policy wonks in order for them to care about an issue and vote that way. Ideally, we wouldn't also have quasi-deniers and what-abouters defying the overwhelming bulk of climate scientists. Their ignorance is a lot more dangerous.
Why have democracy at all if citizens just defer to 'experts' & 'journalists'?
I can't wait to hear about how this question goes over on dates.
Please talk to an actual climate scientist before dispensing “pro tips”, because this one is wrong. FYI: Several National Academy of Sciences studies have shown this is likely not a big issue, and other things are far more important.
So your point is, if people talk about climate science in public, they should know what they're talking about. I was making exactly the same point. Glad that we agree!
This is a fair point relating to people having no actual knowledge about issues they claim to care about. But bad faith actors use this real issue - many on the left don't know what they're talking about - to pretend climate change isn't a real concern. And it is a huge concern.
It is a legit concern, but there are many other legit concerns that get far less airtime.
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