Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps
by graeme on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:16PM
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You switched topics. They were talking about contribution (albeit enough contribution to be the main cause), and you tried to make it as though they were saying causation (meaning no other causes).
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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps
by CWuestefeld on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:27PM
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They were talking about contribution
The common jargon in Liberalese is "anthropogenic climate change", i.e., climate change created by humans. My argument is that they'd have an easier time getting people on board if they went about this without assigning blame.
Saying "there's a problem we need to solve" is going to get a more productive reception than saying "you created this problem and now we need to solve it".