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  • It’s profitable to keep an audience in a state of constant fear so they keep checking to make see if it’s sorted itself out. Then the 2-week news cycle happens, and the old fear is replaced by a new fear.

    Climate change isn’t going to end humanity, but it will change our living conditions. And so what? Humans are excellent at adapting to their environment. The ice age didn’t doom humanity.

    I feel like the current concerns tend to get way overblown out of proportion. Remember that world-ending solar flare that keeps making the rounds every couple months? Still waiting for that to materialize. Fearmongering is so cringe and yet so many people fall for it.