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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 7

    Climate change: If you tell people they’re doomed, they get on with their lives & hope the experts are wrong. Better to lay out practicable solutions, says Katherine Hayhoe. https://youtu.be/AeqAoozVyfQ  via @YouTube

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      1. Dr Jon Sutton‏Verified account @jonmsutton Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        You might find this interesting - ‘Yawning at the apocalypse’, published today on @psychmag https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/september-2018/yawning-apocalypse …

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      1. Steve P‏ @Real_Steve_P Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Citizens Climate Lobby has been doing that for over 10 years. Visithttps://citizensclimatelobby.org/ 

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      1. Thomas Linker‏ @diagonist Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Sounds like psychological good sense to me. I've just finished watching Blue Planet series with my wife. The panorama of dying coral was simply depressing, despite the urging by the narrator that we can do something about it. Science is playing defense, and not well.

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      1. AmericanChoirBoo‏ @Choirboytwitch Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        fear is the engine of religion, not science.

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      1. Peter Mogensen‏ @MogensenPeter Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Can we remind people that nobody started out saying they were "doomed". This issue has been warned about with conservative estimates in the public since 1988 and in government circles long time before that. ... but obstruction and misinformation just made it continuously worse.

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      1. David Zierden‏ @FLClimateCenter Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @PaulRoundy1 @YouTube

        Guilt doesn't work either...being told "its your fault".

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      1. Kid Brightwillow‏ @KidBrightwillow Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Everybody is interested in practical solutions. I just haven’t seen any.

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      2. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        Jesus, Steven. Read the headlines. We're about to pass and environmental Rubicon. The only individual action we can take is to vote. That's it. Encourage people to vote Democrat because insane Republican deregulation is pushing us over a cliff.

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      3. cesar penafiel‏ @cesarpenafiel Aug 8
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @YouTube

        You can't be serious. Under Obama we permanently shut down more carbon free energy than all of the solar power produced in the US. Under Clinton and a Democratic Senate we shout down the IFR project which would have solved climate change globally. Cuomo is killing Indian Point NY

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      4. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 Aug 8
        Replying to @cesarpenafiel @sapinker @YouTube

        First of all, are you saying Trump is better for the environment than Obama? You're joking. In 2016, US CO2 emissions were falling across all sectors. Obama's clean power plan, that Trump abandoned, would have had half of our electricity emissions free by 2025.

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      5. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 Aug 8
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @cesarpenafiel and

        Plus, nuclear energy isn't emissions free. That's a stupid argument.

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      6. cesar penafiel‏ @cesarpenafiel Aug 11
        Replying to @el_blanc0 @sapinker @YouTube

        Nuclear power emits 1/4th the emissions of solar panels according to the IPCC. If you deny the science of the IPCC, you might as well deny climate change.

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      7. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 Aug 11
        Replying to @cesarpenafiel @sapinker @YouTube

        Due respect, but the environmental impact and potential impact of solar vs nuclear...look we can troll each other’s positions here and I can accuse you of misrepresenting the IPCC 2014 report, and you can try to frame me as some sort of science denier or we can talk. U choose.

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      2. Nate Rose‏ @NateRoseMusic Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        My primary concern, and the reason for climate change having become largely a partisan issue, is how do proposed actions to curb climate change affect regulations & the free markets? For real change to happen, I think climate change needs to become bipartisan (1)

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      3. Nate Rose‏ @NateRoseMusic Aug 7
        Replying to @NateRoseMusic @sapinker @YouTube

        through efforts that are minimally intrusive on free markets. In what ways can we offer better incentives for businesses to be eco-friendly? I think climate related issues would be taken more seriously if there was a good faith proposition to move bipartisan.

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      4. NoCollusionNoCreams‏ @CookieNoCreams Aug 7
        Replying to @NateRoseMusic @sapinker @YouTube

        Carbon tax, removing fossil fuel subsidies, adding green energy subsidies are just a few examples. We do have to accept that the transition to a carbon neutral economy will not, and cannot, come without economic stress. The key is to absorb the stress now, it'll be worse later.

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      1. Rare‏ @Rare_org Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Those are the solutions we’re looking for with #SolutionSearch! Inspiring, proven solutions to helping consumers adopt climate-friendly behaviors. Learn more at http://solutionsearch.org .pic.twitter.com/gZB2tEapPC

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      1. DiversityofIdeas‏ @equityopinion Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @cathyjones173 @YouTube

        I just want to know how the earth warms and cools on it’s own first and how we can quantify it so we know how much humans contribute. Seems like there are no firm answers.

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      1. Allan Guty‏ @AllanJGuty Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        I first learned about global warming in 1982 while taking my grade 10 geography class. For the rest of the 80s I wondered why it didn’t get more attention. Then I saw the media and politicians eventually take hold of the issue and wished they hadn’t.

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      1. Ted Thelin‏ @TedThelin Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker @YouTube

        If you tell people who want the world to end that the world is ending.. They're going to cheer for it.

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