> Assuming I'm exactly average, that means 50% of the population won't understand it either. Of that 50%, how many will actually care? Nothing will happen until it is too late.
That’s the crux of the dilemma. It’s too hard. Nothing in our daily experience gives us an intuition for it.
For instance, the media often says “solving climate change requires lowering emissions”. Which gives the impression that if we lower emissions we solve it.
But lowering admissions merely slows the speed at which the problem worsens. To solve the problem we would need to go to zero and then actually suck extra co2 from the atmosphere.
And total global emissions, the only number which matters, are at a record high.
That’s the crux of the dilemma. It’s too hard. Nothing in our daily experience gives us an intuition for it.
For instance, the media often says “solving climate change requires lowering emissions”. Which gives the impression that if we lower emissions we solve it.
But lowering admissions merely slows the speed at which the problem worsens. To solve the problem we would need to go to zero and then actually suck extra co2 from the atmosphere.
And total global emissions, the only number which matters, are at a record high.