Revealing of how poorly informed the public are / how effective climate campaigners have been.
Climate change is really bad and we should do everything we can to stop it, but unless we’re talking geological timescales, it isn’t going to wipe out our species.
Climate change is really bad and we should do everything we can to stop it, but unless we’re talking geological timescales, it isn’t going to wipe out our species.
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YouGov
With the Doomsday Clock to be updated today, what do Brits think would be most likely to cause human extinction?
Nuclear war: 62%
Climate change: 46%
A pandemic: 31%
Meteor strike: 20%
Seismic event: 16%
AI / robots: 15%
Bees dying: 15%
ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/In...
Nuclear war: 62%
Climate change: 46%
A pandemic: 31%
Meteor strike: 20%
Seismic event: 16%
AI / robots: 15%
Bees dying: 15%
ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/In...
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(the a global shift towards authoritarian nationalist crackpots is what's wrecking my mental health)
It's paralysing and horrifying but not, I don't think, helpful.