Tweets on how we perceive climate change.
The patterns of climate change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum global warming 56 million years ago are not so different from what is happening now and will happen in the future. 🧵
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 10, 2022
if you're wondering why climate impacts seem to be getting much worse suddenly, let me introduce you to the concept of non-linearity. A short 🧵:
— Andrew Dessler (@AndrewDessler) August 18, 2022
It's like you're not supposed to feel the horror of what's happening to people right now in places like the Sudan, Pakistan, or Florida—or what's going to happen to our children if we keep using fossil fuels.
— Dr. Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive) October 12, 2022
This lack of care is not a cognitive bias—it's a social prohibition.
There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”.
— professional hog groomer (@bidetmarxman) August 15, 2022
This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/cv8TmrGs0A
i have so many negative emotions over how people in 2020 the notion of "ignore the pandemic until it goes away" was rightfully understood as a right wing absurdity and now in 2023 this is just mainstream opinion everywhere and it does not bode well for planetary crises
— 🪸🍄👁 (@bloomfilters) April 7, 2023
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