Climate change
Fascinating to watch our politicians decide that science can’t predict the future any more.
It took them decades to figure out that by the time they’re proven right or wrong, they’d be long retired, deceased, or run out of the game through misdeeds.
It’s stating the obvious to note that the only thing that has changed (that has allowed this change in their behaviour) is that many people also feel the same about science.
And this has come about for two reasons;
- Scientists themselves have been pushing alarmists predictions that haven’t come true, in the interests of attracting attention or grants, and
- Some of the predictions are inconvenient to vested interested, so there’s been a concerted effort to white ant them.
Ultimately, people get tired of life being a series of catastrophes that are about to happen. We know, but just let us enjoy the now.
The forecasts may be accurate, may be false, may be ignored, and it seems to make no difference to how things are or will be.
It was different at the start of the industrial revolution. All the predictions were about people getting more. Now they either don’t want the more, or they don’t want to hear about the dire.
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