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Comment by doon123 | Hacker News Reader

There is a IPCC report out today about climate change and how it would destroy the world as we know it.

Yet, people are more worried about Facebook! Amazing!!!

Facebook is a great place to get that message out, but it's only an echo chamber for ideologies. I guarantee those who don't believe in climate change are only seeing articles about why the IPCC report is wrong (note: this is an example, NOT my personal feeling).

I would argue Facebook is making the problem worse by making it very easy spread misinformation.

Can’t we be worried about both?

Well, considering that the IPCC story is nowhere to be seen on the front page and this being at the top, shows how much general HN crowd worries about Climate change as compared to Facebook. Such Myopia is what has landed us in this crisis in the first place.

But you should not bother. Go worry about the useless photos that you first upload to facebook and then wonder what a for profit company is going to do with all that data.

The IPCC report is currently # 29.

There was an IPCC story in the top 5 about an hour ago which I can only assume was moderator filtered as it had disappeared entirely a minute or two later when I clicked back to homepage. It wasn't flagged, or further down the pages. Didn't even have chance to attract much in the way of controversy or deniers.

So it may not be that reflective of user sentiment. Very disappointing to see though.

So only climate change articles on HN, anything else is deckchairs?

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