CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT: A PARABLE

The patient told the doctor, “I’m running a high fever and it keeps getting worse. I feel bloated all the time. I’m nauseous, I have diarrhea, and also terrible headaches. Can you help me?”

After a thorough examination and a battery of tests, the doctor said, “You need a complete overhaul of your system, a radical change to your diet, and an improved fitness regime. We’ll have to flush all the bad agents from your body. It won’t be easy, it will take a lot of work, but it’s your only hope.”

“Oh, no, no — I couldn’t do that,” said the patient. “It sounds much too difficult!”

Needless to say, the patient died.

#CLIMATE #ENVIRONMENT

An examination of human psychology reveals why it's so hard to make a significant difference or stimulate meaningful changes while acting (like me) as a "climate alarmist." 🚨

In a recent article on Medium, T.J. Brearton explores this subject through the prism of a book he's been reading called "Generation Dread" by Britt Wray...
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People will be building homes on the coasts even as the ocean encroaches. Often cited by deniers and skeptics as proof of a hoax, the Obamas bought a home on Martha’s Vineyard just a couple of years ago.

Are the Obamas deniers? Are they using negation? Britt Wray presents a third type of psychological defense, called disavowal, “a kind of soft denial.” This is the category of people who understand the science and the risks, and, while concerned about systems collapse, simultaneously play down the threats so that they can continue living their lives according to their desires.

By the time things are so bad they’re affecting most people, we will have been hearing about climate alarm for decades. Whole swaths of the population will have completely tuned it out.

Indeed, we’re all making these decisions every day, to keep the lights on in our home, to keep gasoline in our cars so that we can get to work, take care of our immediate needs.

And we will always be this way, right up until the ocean is at our front door, or the heat is rising to surpass survivable wet-bulb temperatures, or the grocery store is suddenly bare.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/why-climate-alarmism-doesnt-work-4ccfe37d27c0

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Psychology

If people were given a short look, just a glimpse, at what the *actual* future will be like only 10 or 20 years from now — we would have a panic on our hands.

But that’s not how life works. We can’t see into the future, and few of us try to imagine it in any detail. Most are too busy, too distracted, or too beaten down by the present.

So we don’t see. We can’t see. We are denied an accurate, honest awareness of how scary and how serious our present predicament is. In reality, it demands urgent drastic action.

And even if we do understand this intellectually, we keep putting off action until later because we’re too busy and too distracted… or maybe because it’s too frightening to think about.

#ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityLoss #Future #ClimateAction