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>>onnnon+(OP)
I used to worry

but living through 30 years of catastrophic predictions not happening has made me question the messenger instead.

Some examples(1):

1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000

2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013

(1) https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...

Don’t get me wrong. I still think it’s an area of concern. I’m actually a raging environmentalist but I just think we should spend our limited political capital on air pollution, heavy metals, microplastics, and expanding national park access.

>>bilsbi+Gd2
You mean 30 years of listening to non-experts instead of experts. 30 years of listening to scientifically illiterate journalists who exaggerate and make stuff up to sell more papers or get more clicks, while refusing to listen to what scientists actually say.

Pretty much everything in that link is just random headlines, with zero connection to what the scientific consensus was in the listed years.