Whether intentional or not, holding climate professionals to unrealistic standards is a climate delay tactic for justifying the status quo.

Whether intentional or not, holding climate professionals to unrealistic standards is a tactic which delays effective climate action. It slows down climate action by redirecting responsibility and foregrounding low-impact solutions.

  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    1 个月前

    And conservative media has convinced half of America that all politicians are corrupt, and liberal politicians are more corrupt than conservative politicians, so that the left has no moral basis to accuse the right of corruption.

    I believe this was the whole (or most of) the explanation at one point, but here in Trump’s second term I simply don’t believe it. The evangelicals who support Trump have long since simply made their peace the hypocrisy - he is God’s instrument no matter how personally flawed. Much of the rest of his base see hypocrisy as a sign of strength - yeah we condemn stuff and then do it ourselves , and we win anyways. Wtf are you going to do about it loser?

    Your whole explanation seems like a post-hoc rationalization based on the increasingly untenable assumption that most people are genuinely good if you just get past all the noise. Evidence suggests that people will gladly vote for a wretched person like Trump if they think it means they’ll pay $50 less in taxes, all else be damned.

    Trump is the culmination of long-festering sicknesses in American culture, not just the result of a media scam that just happened to bear fruit now.