2023-01-06
Our politicians and media are by nature prone to oversimplifying -
"We will fix the NHS by giving them the money they need"
"Drive diesel cars to reduce CO2 emissions"
"Drive petrol cars to reduce particulate emissions"
"Drive electric cars to reduce emissions"
"Privatise monopolies to improve their performance"
"Nationalise the railways to improve their performance"
"Regulate the Utility companies to improve their performance"
Yeah, right.
Take a step back, the world is more complex than they would have us believe.
The Big Daddy of over-simplifications (and the competition is pretty severe) must be Climate Change: the idea that we will all be cooked / drowned / incinerated if we continue to emit carbon dioxide on the current trajectory.
This argument has become sterile, with climate fanatics arguing from an entrenched political position ("97% of climate scientists agree" and the WEF-UN says so) and "climate deniers!" from a variety of different positions - but we can't have an effective discussion unless we can agree on the turf.
Joe Martino of The Pulse has always tended to take a step back from the immediate question and look at how we are approaching a problem. It's not much good flinging accusations at each other if we are merely concentrating on the wrong nuance, so taking a step back and defining the problem within its the overall context would seem a sensible approach. In consequence, he does sometimes come across as too academic for the liking of many.
Of course this may lead to a more complex scenario that requires more analysis, and often moves away from the original argument toward a wider understanding. This shift of direction annoys those wedded to arguing the proposition rather than seeking for the truth - yet the truth is the truth for a' that!
The "climate emergency" is a case in point, and this video from 2020 (perhaps it got lost in some other contretemps) is a useful reminder that maybe, just maybe, we should not allow ourselves to be too blinkered by the simplistic assumptions of politicians and media in our approach to such issues.
" ... the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications ... announced that they 'own the science' "
"Climate change is a complex issue, with multiple factors involved, are we truly suggesting that we should not explore differing perspectives?"
(24 minutes)
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