I decided (yet again) to save a reply I'd written in a discussion under a YouTube video clip an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine about a group of genetically modified geniuses. Three of them geniuses arrive on the station, and make startling long-term analyses about the Dominion War. The analyses are complex and also correct.
One of the YouTube commenters then asked, if the writers had in mind the climate scientists, their predictions, and how many people in the public — even decisionmakers — would dismiss these scientific conclusions.
One of the YouTube commenters then asked, if the writers had in mind the climate scientists, their predictions, and how many people in the public — even decisionmakers — would dismiss these scientific conclusions.
My response was, that
The episode wasn't particularly on climate change, but about how ready the 'normal' people would be to accept accurate science, even if they did could not comprehend it.
For example, we are able and willing to use all kinds of gadgets despite the fact, that there is a huge amount of science behind them. We are able to take care of individual plants without knowing exactly how they work, but knowing, that they need sunlight, water, nutrients, and bees (for pollination).
What many people are unable to grasp wrt the climate of the Earth, is, that they fail to treat it as such a gadget or a plant that also needs care and maintenance, such as: 'Grow more plants' and 'exhaust less CO2 and other dangerous micromaterials'.
In many ways, the science fiction show "The Expanse" has a very accurate view of how the climate of the Earth might have progressed in the future. There, the icecaps of the Earth have melted quite a bit, and everything is swimming, with 30 (yes, thirty) billion people inhabiting the planet.
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