I get an impression that a lot of people in western countries didn’t think that global warming would affect them personally. It was going to be something that happened to people in the Global South that people in countries like Canada and US would watch on TV. Turns out it’s a global problem, and nobody is immune.
Yeah, I also have this impression. Everybody will het hurt by it, I would even say that the majority of the global population already face consequences of it
It’s not that western countries didn’t think they’d be hurt by it, it’s that for a variety of reasons many actively refuse to believe in it (mostly related to oil and coal). A lot of people in the west have been screaming for at least a decade now about how bad things are going to get and that changes need to be made, but an equal number of people have also been shouting them down saying it’s all propaganda and climate change isn’t real. I remember being told with a straight face a decade ago that climate change was all Chinese propaganda designed to ruin the US economy.
Sure, there are still a lot of people who flat out deny that anything is happening, but a lot of people who accept that climate change is real don’t appreciate how severe the problem is. It’s honestly incredibly depressing to watch this all unfold. At this point I have no idea what it’s going to take for people to start treating this as a serious threat to humanity as a whole.
I get an impression that a lot of people in western countries didn’t think that global warming would affect them personally. It was going to be something that happened to people in the Global South that people in countries like Canada and US would watch on TV. Turns out it’s a global problem, and nobody is immune.
Yeah, I also have this impression. Everybody will het hurt by it, I would even say that the majority of the global population already face consequences of it
Yup, the theme has been that everything is happening a lot faster than expected.
It’s not that western countries didn’t think they’d be hurt by it, it’s that for a variety of reasons many actively refuse to believe in it (mostly related to oil and coal). A lot of people in the west have been screaming for at least a decade now about how bad things are going to get and that changes need to be made, but an equal number of people have also been shouting them down saying it’s all propaganda and climate change isn’t real. I remember being told with a straight face a decade ago that climate change was all Chinese propaganda designed to ruin the US economy.
Sure, there are still a lot of people who flat out deny that anything is happening, but a lot of people who accept that climate change is real don’t appreciate how severe the problem is. It’s honestly incredibly depressing to watch this all unfold. At this point I have no idea what it’s going to take for people to start treating this as a serious threat to humanity as a whole.