Experiencing extreme weather and disasters is not enough to change views on climate action, study shows

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1. The paper is [here](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02372-4)

2. TLDR- From article *”In short, just experiencing more disasters does not seem to translate into increased support for mitigation efforts.”*

   The real inconvenient truth AL, was not that people were unaware, but rather we were never really going to do anything about it anyway.

3. I’ve found the Climate Shift Index to be a helpful educational tool for connecting local temperature records to climate change.

4. “shifting baselines” at work

5. This shows that within our culture the average human isn’t educated or smart enough to survive.

6. Baaaaaah baaaaaah.

   That’s the sound of people who still have a mediocre lifestyle.

7. We are governed by the most anti-science group on the planet.

8. The pile of dead canaries from the coal mine are blocking the writing on the wall.

9. Fires are currently taking place in Turkey, Greece, Scotland. And in Catalonia 2 people have been killed in a wildfire trying to escape in a car. People generally just take it all for granted and pretend like everything is normal. It will change once it starts to affect them economically but by that point it will be too late.

10. Saw a dude doing an interview after the Paradise Fire standing in front of the pile of ash a.d slag that used to be his house saying that climate change was just propaganda.

    It was at that point I knew we were lost.

    If *that* dude was still regurgitating the talking points we have zero chance at even mitigating what’s coming.

11. Then that’s that, then.

12. I don’t expect this to change as conditions worsen. After a certain point admitting that climate change exists becomes more and more synonymous with admitting that modern civilization is doomed, a many people simply will not do that.

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