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Morgan MLGman
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With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, an interesting contrast can be seen:

COVID-19 public response - drastic changes in behavior and thinking almost in every country, shows people across the world know it is serious.

Climate change public response - no drastic changes in behavior anywhere, despite "geniuses" on cable TV telling you the world is gonna end because of it all the time.
Does that mean people across the world view it as a farce?

I've been thinking about it for a few days now, thoughts?

  1. lewdicrous

    lewdicrous

    Basically what @VegetableStu said, people don't tend to care unless it affects them directly. 

  2. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    Another related question that's been bothering me then: If there's a scientifically proven consensus about climate change, and it's been predicted multiple times that rising water levels would flood entire coasts devastating cities like New York for instance - why don't estate and land prices in those areas drop? In fact they're more expensive than their inland counterparts. Does that mean both sellers and buyers think it's all bogus?

    Cause thinking logically, assuming that this is a scientifically proven fact they should drop terribly. Hell, even Obama recently bought a ~12M USD residence on the coast, and if you knew that it would be flooded in a few years, you'd be an idiot to do that... 

     

    Sorry, boredom makes me think about weird stuff :P

  3. lewdicrous

    lewdicrous

    Flood insurance. /s

    I'm guessing it has something to do with land value; some places cost more/less because of where they are, so people selling land/buildings in coastal areas can use that as selling points, basically "artificially inflating" the value, imo at least.

     

    Not sure if this is video is going to entirely answer your question, but it's somewhat related.

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