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The Environment / Re: Why is Global Warming a threat?
« on: 06/04/2017 11:48:28 »OK, I have been told that I have not asked this question clearly enough so here goes;
What exactly do you see as the trouble with a slightly warmer world?
Is it a sea level rise of 1m by 2100 or something else? Please be clear as to the mechanism of destruction that is so scary.
Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR's First Inaugural Address.
Global warming as been equated with fear, instead of hopeful challenge, because fear is the easiest way to manipulate the most people. If you try to place a positive spin, instead of a scary one, the audience who can relate is much smaller.
The reason being is, the emotion of fear narrows our time perception. In other words, if an animal is being pursued by a predator, fear focuses the animal'd mind and body in the immediate present, with time appearing to run slow, so it can react to change in the blink of an eye.
Fear sort of creates a tunnel vision and the need for immediate remedy. This can come in useful if you need to motivate and manipulate people for political purposes. The tunnel vision, created by fear, will also make it harder to open their vision and mind to anything that does not support the fear. This is why I began with the quote, the only thing we need to feat is fear itself, since expect tunnel vision and an altering in time perception that make the herd stampede and unable to hear anything.
The original doom and gloom scenarios, of Al Gore, never panned out. That does not matter to the fearful. The real goal was to stampede the hysterical leftist herd, so they would trample anyone in their path, without realizing it. Consider what was done to good scientists who tried to appease the fear with alternate scenarios; black ball the deniers even if good they are accredited scientists. They fear still was able to generate anarchy, which is what is predicted will be caused by global warming.
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