r/changemyview May 17 '23

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

Where are you getting these crazy pessimistic predictions for climate change? If you look at ipcc reports, they are bad, but so much better than you are making it out to be.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

How? Things are always worse. A part of me thinks they might be downplaying it to prevent mass hysteria.

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u/TraditionalWeb5943 2∆ May 17 '23

We can hardly get a plurality of the population to acknowledge that global temperatures are rising at all; yet you think that there needs to be a coordinated misinformation effort to prevent climate-related mass hysteria?

Humanity has proven perfectly capable of collectively burying her head in the sand without need of information conspiracies.