"[American climate activist Bill] McKibben believes the reason the IPCC’s increasingly frantic climate warnings are being ignored is people don’t believe they can make a difference.
'The brutal truth [he claims] is that last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report didn’t have the effect it should have had, or that its authors clearly intended.... [I]t landed in the world with a gentle plop, not the resounding thud that’s required."The problem is not the 'disconnection between the words of the report and the actions people feel they can take'. The problem is the disconnection between the IPCC and their credibility.
'In China, the world’s biggest emitter, official attention was focused instead on Moscow, where Xi Jinping was off to do a little male bonding with fellow autocrat Vladimir Putin, incidentally the world’s second largest producer of hydrocarbons. In America, the historical emissions champ, we were riveted by the possibility that would-be autocrat Donald Trump might be indicted. In the New York Times, our planet’s closest thing to a paper of record, the IPCC report was the fourth story on the website.
'The reason, [he concludes] is a disconnection between the dire words of the report and the actions most people feel they can effectively take.
"For more than 30 years we’ve been listening to the United Nations and other tax money guzzling organisations try to scare us with imaginary climate hobgoblins, ozone holes, acid rain, it’s a long list of utter nonsense."
~ Eric Worrall, from his post 'McKibben: Last Week’s Climate Report “landed … with a gentle plop”'
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