Suture Self wrote:Lol, they teach Bill Nye in schools, too. They show a lot of videos in school. Does this mean it had an impact? No. It just means teachers are too lazy to teach actual climate science. If this is your proof that it's had a significant impact on public awareness concerning the realities of climate change, I'm not convinced.
If you're arguing that schools have no impact on people's learning that's fine but I'm going to have to disagree. I mean aren't you in college? Is it just you being warehoused or are you actually being impacted by what's happening there?
Suture Self wrote:The media is definitely complicit in making climate change a wedge issue, don't get me wrong. That's actually part of my point. Public awareness of climate change being a wedge issue isn't public awareness of the reality of climate change. The media loves framing it as a wedge issue.
What is this based on?
Suture Self wrote:I think you guys have a much looser definition of what you mean by "impact" than I do. When I think of something having a positive impact, I'm thinking about an actual change in beliefs, or actual policy change, or a shift in the status quo. In that sense, at least in America, I don't think An Inconvenient Truth did much, although I'm a little more open now that Dardan has provided some quality rebuttals. However, I think, if we're framing this in terms of what good its done for the cause of climate change, I think, in America, one could make the argument that it had a negative effect, or at the very least failed to gain the traction it deserved. I seriously think Al Gore was an awful decision. It should have been a scientist.
What the actual fuck dude? Now Dardan has provided quality rebuttals but before you said "Please realize you're quoting an undergrad paper and a pop-science magazine." Unbelievable. Dardan, I guess since you're a liberal what you say has more credence than some stone age thinker like me
Dardan wrote:
https://reason.com/archives/2014/06/13/ ... n-liberals
The divide in emotion and intelligence is more complex than left vs. right. It depends on what kind of liberal you are and what kind of right-winger you are. And even then, this generalization is way too strong.
You're right I've been clouded by the SJW college aged student who, after seeing Paris get attacked, will wonder why people aren't covering the made up racism claims at their crappy university. I actually like guys like Bill Maher because you can tell he's actually rational.