This is now a key part of the story of heat across the continent and beyond. It’s remarkable – and a win for fossil fuel companies and climate change-denying vested interests – that it is rarely mentioned in daily news of heatwaves and other extreme weather events.
The missing link there is voter apathy, stupidity or both. How can assert that ? voters simply don’t care, or they’d be voting Green.
I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don’t know how to do that." -James Speth
Did you know that in Australia 44% of adults (roughly 7.3 to 9 million people aged 15-74) do not possess the literacy skills necessary for everyday life and work.
Since the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) began in 2000, Australian 15-year-olds have shown a steady, significant decline in reading literacy.
Why is this? Do we blame larger class sizes, changes to the curriculum, teacher burnout or something else?
Because that many people not being able to read and write properly is an absolute fucking disgrace and makes me wonder what the point of school is these days. Was it shitified intentionally because the public were asking too many questions about the way this world operates?
Anyway if people can’t read you can hardly expect them to educate themselves about climate science. Instead they will just trust the opinions aired on the main-stream media. It’s easier.