EDIT: I guess what I’m saying is, why would you NOT want information about something that might be averted or mitigated, but whose likely consequences are a severe change to your current quality of life?
I want all information about all things. But I don’t have time for that. And given the option of learning to spot global warming or learning to spot an unsafe tire on my car, I’ll have to pick #2. WLOG.
Even if it turns out that you can leverage the ability to spot global warming into enough money to pay your next-door neighbor to look at your car tires every morning and let you know if they’re unsafe?
This implies the Maldiveans should not concern themselves with the fact that their entire country (most of it no more than a meter or two above sea level) is projected to lose most of the land sustaining its tourist industry (the main economic engine for the economy) and displacing most of its population, leading to greater social volatility in a country enjoying a relative respite after many years of internicine violence.
I want all information about all things. But I don’t have time for that.
If you think this applies to the question of whether or not it’s valuable for anyone to know about global warming in concrete terms and the plausible implications for their own lives, then I can only say that I hope for your sake you live somewhere nicely insulated from such possible changes. Me, I’d rather treat it the way I treat earthquakes where I’m from or tornadoes where I live now: things worth knowing about and being at least somewhat prepared for if it’s at all possible to do so.
I want all information about all things. But I don’t have time for that. And given the option of learning to spot global warming or learning to spot an unsafe tire on my car, I’ll have to pick #2. WLOG.
Even if it turns out that you can leverage the ability to spot global warming into enough money to pay your next-door neighbor to look at your car tires every morning and let you know if they’re unsafe?
This implies the Maldiveans should not concern themselves with the fact that their entire country (most of it no more than a meter or two above sea level) is projected to lose most of the land sustaining its tourist industry (the main economic engine for the economy) and displacing most of its population, leading to greater social volatility in a country enjoying a relative respite after many years of internicine violence.
If you think this applies to the question of whether or not it’s valuable for anyone to know about global warming in concrete terms and the plausible implications for their own lives, then I can only say that I hope for your sake you live somewhere nicely insulated from such possible changes. Me, I’d rather treat it the way I treat earthquakes where I’m from or tornadoes where I live now: things worth knowing about and being at least somewhat prepared for if it’s at all possible to do so.