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?
"The case for comedy in the climate crisis."-because scientific literacy has failed
Submitted 3 weeks ago by secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5371565-humor-science-advocacy-campaign/
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
I think the intelligent people of this planet need to do less quippy talking points and use more intelligence to force to get these idiots (and the psychopathic elite) to stop de-terraforming this planet into a barren hellscape.