On: The Earth is getting greener

[bradley13]

If the world were getting browner, they would panic. It's getting greener, so they have to try a bit harder, but they still manage to panic.

Panic --> Clickbait --> Ads --> Money

[throw310822 → bradley13]

You will be downvoted to death, but whatever one thinks of climate change, the one you outlined is a very real effect and deserves to be considered seriously. Media sell what people get excited about; people get excited about bad news; media publish bad news; bad news become part of the society's worldview; society becomes focused on the issue and digs for more bad news.

[B1FF_PSUVM → bradley13]

Someday our descendants (if any) will wonder how stupid we had to be to allow large scale psychological poisoning for profit.

[deadeye → bradley13]

My 86-year-old grandmother noticed no change in the climate over the course of her life. Meanwhile, we now have 15-year-old kids absolutely panicking over how much the climate has changed in the last 100 years, convinced their grandparents generation has doomed them to a heat death. It's bazar.

[zer0tonin → deadeye]

> My 86-year-old grandmother noticed no change in the climate over the course of her life.

She should consider getting checked for dementia.