Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds

Re:Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in new... by Udik on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:52AM (#23998109)

I don't know if this is a US thing. Here in Europe, and as an avid reader of the news and various reporting, I can assure you that climate change activism is as mainstream as it can be (also because it easily inserted itself over a generic green, new age-ish movement that was there much before climate change became the focus of attention).

And I don't know how niche HN is (not much, I'd say, although it's certainly not a generalist forum either) but also here you can see that any comment that can be construed as the vaguest criticism of climate change action is promptly downvoted.

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Re:Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in new... by hannob on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:02AM (#23998983)

> Here in Europe, and as an avid reader of the news and various reporting, I can assure you that climate change activism is as mainstream as it can be

I'm from Germany, and certainly the situation is different from the US. However I'd argue in large parts we just have a different flavor of climate denial. I.e. "yeah climate change is happening, but [something unrelated that changes nothing about climate change]... let's not do too much".

I mean no european country is on a trajectory of acting on climate change with the speed needed to fulfil even the goals that every country already agreed to.

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