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All the call outs for the past 30 years and only now is it clicking (discuss.online)
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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago

I'm not saying that a thing's label doesn't matter, but there are a couple important facts to keep in mind:

  1. A label is not enough space to fully communicate any idea.
  2. A person's willingness to disagree is not rational.

If I could pretend to be a conservative, uh... pedophile for a moment, what might I say about "climate destabilization"?

  • That's not going to happen; that's ridiculous.
  • We go through seasons and extreme weather all the time—what's "stable" about that?
  • You're some alarmist tree-hugger just trying to scare people, aren't you?
  • If destabilization is so bad, companies would never let it happen. Why would they when they need the planet too?
  • "Destabilization", brought to you by the same irrational, ruled-by-fear people who can't handle an unloaded gun being in the same room as them—heh heh!
  • What does destabilization mean, anyway? Like, one more hurricane a year? Just don't live in Florida.
  • "Oh no! The climate is destabilizing!"—meanwhile in reality, birds are chirping, nothing has changed.
  • Everything "destabilizes"; man makes plans, God laughs.
  • We all have ACs and heaters now anyway, so what's the problem exactly?

All of these bullet points come from the same place: what you're suggesting, that climate change is a problem, is both a lot of difficult effort to solve and very scary to think about. So, emotionally, they just refuse to. It's easier to refuse to. You don't have to live anxiously if you refuse to.

There are a large number of complicated and diverse sociological reasons why climate change isn't taken seriously, and making the label scarier would only really be effective if it represented an across-the-board rhetorical tactic to scare the public into action. That means posters, flyers, ads on television, tv programs and movies, fiction and non-fiction, politicians who will not shut up about it, constant news about the worst-case scenarios and what people watching need to do right now to stop it, companies who pollute being depicted as evil and villainous and a threat to us right now and legally blocked from being allowed to advertise for themselves (e.g. tobacco companies).

Climate change needs strong, inciting propaganda, and for the last 50 years has had very piss-poor propaganda, mostly because money doesn't want it to.