Happy SciFriday, celebrate making it through the week by watching as Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains Climate Change. I think you’ll find that he articulates the subject from a different perspective and that might help increase understanding. Take a look:
Now here’s what I want you to take from this video because climate change is a topic that affects all of us. I want you to remember that when we talk climate change, we have to stay focused on the actual problem. Far too often, you see minor details turning into wedge issues that dilute the discussion and cause us to miss the point.
It’s like being a parent to a teenager that wants to go out to a sideshow or make ‘death-defying’ stunt videos. You can get so sucked into defending your point that you miss the screaming reply: ‘I did what I was asked to do, why are you asking me to accept LESS?’
So I like how he put it ‘when you change the climate, you have to be ready for climatic events that fall outside your experience.’ Maybe it’ll help make more sense to people who have resisted the issues of climate change up to this point. I wish climate change wasn’t happening – I wish we could go on with proven technology. Unfortunately, we weren’t paying attention to a critical detail over the past hundred years and it’s caught up to us now. Wishing won’t stop that.
