In chapter 1 of my book I show that the strategy of tamping down climate alarm is a favorite of fossil-fuel interests, and I argue that scientists can inadvertently assist this strategy when they succumb to the fear of being called "alarmists" or looking emotional in any way.
One of the first things I wrote when I started working on climate change in 2017 was a defense of David Wallace-Wells' book! medium.com/@DoctorVive/... All of which is to say: I think Amy is right on here.
This is an essay about the furor over David Wallace-Wells’ New York Magazine article “The Uninhabitable Earth,” which conjures a specter of…
STEM brains (i am one) not the best at marketing and sales, adovcacy and comms. Who knew. I am having to learn those skills now and boy it's novel.
A bunch of us saying more or less the same thing rn. Hopefully it’s reflective (or will soon be) of a wider shift, particularly in terms of false hope (yeah maybe modelling drawdown scenarios wasn’t such a good idea) and bullshit policy responses (eg CCS, bio offsets, hydrogen hype etc).
Exactly