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Forget ‘doomers:’ Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says (news.harvard.edu)

submitted 9 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/12956314

"I push back on doomism because I don’t think it’s justified by the science, and I think it potentially leads us down a path of inaction,” said Mann during a talk last Thursday at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

“And there are bad actors today who are fanning the flames of climate doomism because they understand that it takes those who are most likely to be on the front lines, advocating for change, and pushes them to the sidelines, which is where polluters and petrostates want them.”

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 105 points 9 months ago

it's not that doomers are denying that it can be stopped. it's just that, given the data an behaviour of people&politics, they don't really see that it will be stopped

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 48 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's my thing too - I have no doubt that scientifically it can be stopped - there's even a real example with how crazy quickly nature started to recover during the COVID lockdowns - but it would require people to not be selfish, stupid assholes so it's never gonna happen.

[-] Xin_shill@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Well tbf, it will happen as the selfish stupid assholes die from climate change with everyone else

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