Thanks, Andrew. I find it interesting that the percentage of people denying the reality of global warming is about the same in the U.S. as the number of antivaxxers during the pandemic. And DeSantis certainly sounds like a conspiracy theorist. What I also find interesting is that conspiracy theorists believed that getting vaccinated against Covid would turn Americans into mindless Biden supporters, but at the same time they were convinced that Trump will win the next election, even though the vast majority of voters will have been vaccinated, and would therefore, according to them, vote for Biden.
I thought of using the frog metaphor. There's also a psychological phrase, "Boiling Frog Syndrome," which means we keep on accepting deteriorating conditions until they make our lives unbearable. Both metaphors work, but I thought it was interesting that, in fact, ostriches don't stick their heads in the sand. They lay their eggs in holes dug into warm sand, to facilitate incubation, but they only stick their heads down there to check on the eggs, not to hide from danger. I don't know if frogs will actually sit in a pot of warming water until they become Mountain Chicken Soup, but if they do it would actually be closer to what we're doing about global warming.
Excellent, well-written article. I agree completely with your sentiments. One of the big problems we have on this is the climate change deniers. Many of these appear to be influenced by conspiracy theorists on this and many other subjects. It is infuriating that so many ostriches are burying their heads in the sand.
Thanks, Andrew. I find it interesting that the percentage of people denying the reality of global warming is about the same in the U.S. as the number of antivaxxers during the pandemic. And DeSantis certainly sounds like a conspiracy theorist. What I also find interesting is that conspiracy theorists believed that getting vaccinated against Covid would turn Americans into mindless Biden supporters, but at the same time they were convinced that Trump will win the next election, even though the vast majority of voters will have been vaccinated, and would therefore, according to them, vote for Biden.
I thought of using the frog metaphor. There's also a psychological phrase, "Boiling Frog Syndrome," which means we keep on accepting deteriorating conditions until they make our lives unbearable. Both metaphors work, but I thought it was interesting that, in fact, ostriches don't stick their heads in the sand. They lay their eggs in holes dug into warm sand, to facilitate incubation, but they only stick their heads down there to check on the eggs, not to hide from danger. I don't know if frogs will actually sit in a pot of warming water until they become Mountain Chicken Soup, but if they do it would actually be closer to what we're doing about global warming.
Excellent, well-written article. I agree completely with your sentiments. One of the big problems we have on this is the climate change deniers. Many of these appear to be influenced by conspiracy theorists on this and many other subjects. It is infuriating that so many ostriches are burying their heads in the sand.
Excellent and important article. I appreciate your research that went into it, and the apt ostrich metaphor.
I wonder if this could be morphed and tweaked into a newspaper op-ed, in order to reach a wider audience.
Another useful metaphor: we're frogs in an ever-warming pot. It will probably take a big die-off to resolve the climate crisis.