Re:Browser-based climate change simulation
by plutonorm on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:14AM
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They don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to. The narrative has been set by private interests for decades - perhaps hundreds of years. So now these opinions look like they are coming from the grass roots.
It’s very very easy to live your daily life and not see any real world consequences outside of some sometimes shrill activists who aren’t the most persuasive people to the average lowest common denominator people.
For one thing these sorts of people won’t be hanging out on an MIT website called EN-ROADS.
Indifference is the biggest enemy, not some big orchestrated conspiracy (although there is some of that too, but that doesn’t explain why even most liberals aren’t doing anything about it).