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Have you noticed that the people that overestimate their own intelligence in a subject often implicitly reveal, to the more informed, that their brand of pseudoscience is because they're missing the required level of humility?

That's why they don't ask more informed questions (lazy learners). They actually believe they're right most of the time (but, on social media, these folk rarely if ever reference scientific publications to back up their rhetoric - because they have not read the scientific publications. They read, at best, science journalism websites).

This online social behavior is actually the norm (average) within the context of laypeople's responses to posts where the scientific subjects of ecology (inc. Climate science) are the relevant context.

They really do believe, or at least promote (like a sales pitch) that buying stuff (products) is the main solution to mitigate change. Basically, because that is what they have been indoctrinated and want to believe in (nurtured).

Wanting to believe in something is the predictable way to most probably be incorrect. Denial followed by conformation bias is one of the most predictable forms of human responses (because humans are animals. And all animal's behavior has predictable patterns)

This is due to their unknown unknowns. A person's intelligence is generally related to experience For example, a person that has studied the scientific literature on has far more experience in that subject than a layperson (but an arrogant layperson can't handle that fact. Hence the self-denial).

You would not be surprised to hear how laypeople feign their level of knowledge of . They are fundamentally only fooling themselves.

Feigning intelligence on social media is relatively easier. Feigning knowledge is due to social status-seeking behaviors. The layperson (with a tone of arrogance. I.e., personality) feels like (emphasis on the emotional heuristic) they're being clever by generally making the narrative up as they go along, reading a little bit on the fly, for example, Wiki pages or social media forums, & very often really believing that the reason why they don't personally agree with the scientist is that the scientist is "stupid" (to use the layperson's words).

The Dunning-Kruger effect is real!

Imagining, after reading this, some arrogant laypeople will quickly read up the term on Wiki & self-proclaim themselves an expert. Arrogance (low humility) is a learning disability.

sciencedirect.com/search?qs=Du

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"Countries are far off track in meeting #climate promises and commitments. I see a lack of ambition. A lack of trust. A lack of support. A lack of cooperation. And an abundance of problems around clarity and credibility" -- U.N. Secretary General António Guterres commondreams.org/news/taking-a

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The general long-term (lifestyle \ culture) solutions to transition & adapt human behaviors (activities) away from an ecologically damaging, climate-changing civilization towards an ecological & climate-sustaining civilization are known. qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

Business As Usual (BAU) tries to continue by generally doing more of the same (BAU is "baked" into the BAU economy & those that only think in BAU terms). For example, BAU is promoting more mining for resources which means more damage to nature (wildlife habitats) and more pollution.

BAU owns land that BAU doesn't want to use for nature restoration.

This means that BAU will continue to not meet its own BAU greenhouse gas reduction targets (BAU's aim is crap as it keeps missing climate-related targets).

Because BAU has generally done a less-than-crap Job at reducing the BAU greenhouse gas emissions (because BAU emissions are rising ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-), BAU is now planning for a future where the effects of climate change are much worse. BAU won't stop BAU so BAU is trying to adapt to climate change by doing more BAU (that makes "sense" for BAU). For example, BAU is about using more resources and power (e.g., burning more "fossil" fuels) to construct higher flood defenses. Basically, BAU is about exploiting nature so as to extract resources and power BAU technologies (& make tech BAU folk rich by selling BAU products).

So, as BAU continues to degrade nature in the name of BAU (e.g., promoting & sell more BAU products & services), more people will come to realize that BAU is the problem. We can't solve a problem by doing more of the BAU problem (but problems make BAU people money...so, go figure).

When more people accept that BAU is the problem, then, and only then, will more people think about the real solutions to prevent humans from damaging , therefore, changing the . In other words, scale down BAU before it's too late to prevent the worst climate impacts qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

When it's clear that BAU is failing to mitigate climate change (what will that take?) - because climate change is causing more harm to people's lives. When it's clear that BAU is the cause of climate change, then humans will change BAU.

The Planet's climate doesn't consider what we want. It will show what we can't have and that's a BAU ( \ ) that's damaging and polluting nature as friggin usual.

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@Empiricism_Reloaded I think we need to plant more trees. That's the most ridiculously easy way to get rid of the excess carbon in the atmosphere.

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is being caused by human activities such as mining & burning fuels. Therefore, it's nonsense for people to think that the solution to mitigate change is to do more of the problem.

For example, the crazy idea of building machines to "suck" or "capture" CO2 out of the atmosphere will require more resources (mining) & power to construct & power the crazy CO2 sucking machines.

The "solutions" can't be doing more of the business as usual problems.
resilience.org/crazy-town-podc

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"We take CO2 out of the air and then return it"

And how much resources and power will this "CO2 out of the air" method consume?

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This podcast may disturb, make certain people angry & cause denial. However, that's because it strikes a "nerve" (is true in many social contexts)

The Empirical Perspective uses a scientific lens to critically evaluate common folk psychology.: The NAP Satire News S01E02

Episode webpage: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho

Media file: anchor.fm/s/d8369f60/podcast/p


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The Empirical Perspective uses a scientific lens to critically evaluate common folk psychology.: NAP Satire News S01E01

Episode webpage: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho

Media file: anchor.fm/s/d8369f60/podcast/p

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The Climate Alarm Clock: Adaptation: Facing reality or giving up?

Episode webpage: the-climate-alarm-clock.captiv

Media file: podcasts.captivate.fm/media/dd

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Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups
floodlightnews.org/post/power-

Such secretive donations to barely regulated non-profit groups have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators in recent years.

#neoliberalism #DarkMoney #lobbying #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FloodLightNews #SolarPower

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I'm looking to recruit people for a PAID opportunity to identify plants from photos. Please DM for more deets or respond & I'll DM you.

Pls share with anyone who might be interested.

#job #ecology #ecologyjobs

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In contrast to the corporate narratives "the ecovillage movement proposes a feasible whole system design toward sustainable ways of living.... Therefore, grassroots initiatives are increasingly receiving attention from the international scientific community, although they are still being neglected by public policies..." doi.org/10.1007/s44168-022-000

How to grow a network for sustainable communities qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

The right time to act to mitigate was decades ago. However, there is always time to make a better choice.

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Crazy Town: Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community

Episode webpage: postcarbon.org/crazytown/episo

Media file: chtbl.com/track/4CG16G/www.buz

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Open access scientific publication.

Springer International Publishing. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science,
labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/

To quote "The theory of by natural selection is the unifying paradigm of and indeed of all the life sciences – it explains and integrates a huge diversity of known findings and predicts an astonishing number of new ones (Alcock 2009; Coyne 2009). It has been famously suggested that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution (Dobzhansky 1973)

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My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone's to make money as their primary objective.

Not to provide valuable services for society.
Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
Not to preserve our environment.

All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.

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Now they’re being slammed by scientists and the media – and if enough of us add to the pressure right now we can stop them.

Sign the petition to the Spanish multinational Nueva Pescanova calling on them to stop their octopus torture farm!

#NuevaPescanova #GranCanaria

#BanOctopusFarming

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Abeja Negra SOS: The #UnitedStates alone is estimated to have lost around 25% of its #bees in the past 40 years.

The drop is often blamed on #human causes: the use of damaging #chemicals, destruction of natural #habitats and #climatechange.

In 2019, the #UnitedNations raised an alarm that bee loss “poses a serious threat” to #global #foodsecurity.

smdailyjournal.com/lifestyle/l

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Which city is an undersung overachiever when it comes to public transit?

Hint: it's got 30 tram lines, 423 kms of tracks, serving more than 1,071 stops.
43 daytime bus routes, 23 nighttime bus routes, 10 regional rail lines, 181 stations.
And, if you're a resident with an annual pass, €1 a day to ride.

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This poll is just for "fun" as people can lie, even too themselves, on questionnaires.

How much money would it take for you to lie on social media about the of change? (the currency is dollars [$] or equivalent)

Select the last option if "No amount of money" would make you "sell" your "soul" to the "devil"

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