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But there are huge amounts of videos on the mechanics of climate change - from 3 minutes to 2 hours, from PhDs to teenagers.

One only needs to look outside to see the climate change and only a basic understanding of physics is required to understand the link between human activity (GHG emissions, deforestation, etc.) and the warming of the atmosphere.

The problem isn't the lack of explanations for the truth, it's that the truth isn't as appealing. We don't want to believe it's our fault, and blindly going against consensus seems to be the popular thing to do this century. People have a huge incentive ($$) to make this content and a huge incentive (feeling superior, free of blame, etc.) to believe them. Where is the incentive for believing science?

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I personally don’t have any kind of personal experience for climate warming. Last year in Paris was freaking cold, and people went skiing last christmas eventhough i clearly remember it wasn’t always possible thirty years ago (to be clear, i’m only talking about climate, not deforestation or other environmental issues humans are clearly visibly the cause of).

And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives.

And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives.

So you were out of town then for the record breaking heatwave where Paris saw temps of nearly 43 degrees and the ministry of health recorded nearly a thousand heat related deaths countrywide?

Wasn't that in 2003 ? It reached a peak then, and we haven't had that ever since... (and yet in that time CO2 concentration in the atmosphere kept raising and raising)

No it was the second heatwave that France saw in 2019 in less than a month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave#F...

> And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives.

Nearly every threat is not immediately visible. In a horrible recession, most people still keep their jobs. When one foreign country invades another, it generally has no direct effect on anything in the U.S. If an astroid is about to hit earth, it won't have any effect until impact.

Society relies on more than direct experience to evaluate threats.

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