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Comment by mandmandam

The 2017 study [0] linked in the article showed that:

> Only about one in eight Americans (13%) understand that nearly all climate scientists (more than 90%) are convinced that human-caused global warming is happening.

And the numbers are pretty similar in Britain [1], where people estimate the consensus at only 65%.

... At what point, if ever, do we hold politicians, media and fossil fuel corporations responsible for their disinformation on this? When does/did radical action, however unpopular, become necessary self defense?

0 - https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-c...

1 - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-hugely-underestimate-scien...

parent mandmandam 2 years ago

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