Marc Godin on Nostr: npub1d7cf3…5gkzk npub1qzc8e…tyetl Okay, so I'm not a scientist, but I ...
npub1d7cf330d8tavy6prfvuy3lzsp8amdkfmznqkpvlyyywcgtvp6pdsg5gkzk (npub1d7c…gkzk) npub1qzc8ejmflltq5uuwmvurfcfd4l96t6np6c8fzgj9l2rdfheadydshtyetl (npub1qzc…yetl) Okay, so I'm not a scientist, but I *understand* the scientific value of uncertainty. MOST FOLKS DON'T. If the media says "once in 100," "once in a 1000", the public doesn't hear all the science, it hears "this won't happen again for 99 years" "this won't happen again for 999 years." Even though the public is wrong to think that.
Frankly, oil companies and media exploit this difference in style between science and effective science communication. The general public, listening to the media, thinks we have another twenty, thirty, or even fifty years before things get Really Bad and We'll Have To Do Something, so run-of-the-mill, everyday folks are still voting for the same people who fund oil, working for the same companies who fund oil, and not calling for immediate change, which we need.
I personally didn't need your clarification, and I found it kind of rude, actually.
Frankly, oil companies and media exploit this difference in style between science and effective science communication. The general public, listening to the media, thinks we have another twenty, thirty, or even fifty years before things get Really Bad and We'll Have To Do Something, so run-of-the-mill, everyday folks are still voting for the same people who fund oil, working for the same companies who fund oil, and not calling for immediate change, which we need.
I personally didn't need your clarification, and I found it kind of rude, actually.