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"The case for comedy in the climate crisis." -because scientific literacy has failed (thehill.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Climate activists have lit themselves on fire trying to warn people of the looming catastrophe, and people still don't care because they are too scientifically illiterate. We are now in the "denial about ignorance" phase, in which convince ourselves we can somehow still ameliorate scientific illiteracy through bizarre methods like humor, sports, and fashion. We'll lol them into understanding math and science, this article suggests. Well, it's probably not worse than doing nothing, possibly?

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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No point in being doomer about it. We try whatever we need to in order to get the population to understand.

And for what it's worth, it kind of makes sense. Science communication is generally quite poor. Scientists aren't trained in PR or in communicating with the public. To some extent, it makes sense that the public doesn't understand. In the longer term, it would certainly be better to raise scientific literacy. In the short term, we simply need quippy talking points that can be repeated to get the message to stick.

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think the intelligent people of this planet need to use fewer quippy talking points and more force to get these idiots (and the psychopathic elite) to stop reverse-terraforming this planet into a barren hellscape.