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The "the sky is falling" worldview is insidious and self-reinforcing. You can't convince a doomsayer that things might actually wind up okay.

There are certainly challenges ahead. My grandchildren will live in a starker world than I did, but only in some ways. We are struggling with the shrinking world, with growing demand for global economic equality but shrinking equality, and a whole slew of mostly human invented issues. The economy as we know it will cease to exist in the next few decades, and we will see pockets of 1984 here, pockets of Atlas Shrugged there, and all the while good people will be trying to do good things.

I have 100% faith in the ability of the minority to save the majority from themselves.

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> I have 100% faith in the ability of the minority to save the majority from themselves.

Then why has the minority spent so much money preventing the US from addressing climate change when it would have been much easier to do so?

Sending trillions to people with a 100% track record of predictive failure isn’t popular?

Weird.

I concur, however it generally isn’t good for the majority when the minority takes over as generally the minority has a discrimination grudge.

Eventually we’ll end up at some type of precipice in which our heroes will save us much like The Day The Rarth Stood Still

> The "the sky is falling" worldview is insidious and self-reinforcing. You can't convince a doomsayer that things might actually wind up okay.

Despite not hoping much about ending up ok, witnessing the kind of ideologies and literature that young adults are submitted to is creepy. It’s total doomsday, but with leftist ideologies, it gives them hope for nothing and works hard to leave them suicidal at best.

“How to survive beyond the n-th extinction” and the likes of titles, books, short films, ideas, are classics of this ideology and makes me not regret slamming the door at it. Yes, scientists might be right. No, they’re not unbiased, yes they can exaggerate a bit, and the megaphone amplifying the negative thoughts just before elections doesn’t help at all.

So much of supposed “scientific conclusions” are just exaggerated due to systemic issues in communication, that, no, it can’t be totally trusted, and yes, there is hope that we’ll be here and fine in one century, yes we should certainly pollute less, but no, we shouldn’t suppress all factories and eat bugs instead.

Some extremists enjoy hearing doomporn. It works the same on the rightwing, with other topics. But we should really quit taking it as a fact, and start factchecking and criticizing those articles.

> Some extremists enjoy hearing doomporn. It works the same on the rightwing, with other topics.

I wasn't sure what it was that bothers me about stuff like this, but you hit the nail on the head. Some of the worst climate alarmism has the same level of persuasiveness as "illegal immigrants are replacing the white race!" AKA a negative amount.

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