• Muehe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m almost the same as OP, but I wouldn’t call it “head in the sand”. […] Stop following the news, and you won’t notice a thing.

    Well I understand the impetus, but that’s literally the definition of the head-in-the-sand idiom according to Merriam-Webster:

    unwilling to recognize or acknowledge a problem or situation

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      1 year ago

      unwilling to recognize or acknowledge a problem or situation

      I’m saying that we are not unwilling to recognize a problem, the problem itself is greatly exaggerated, or even non-existent.

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        1 year ago

        Alright, so you don’t acknowledge the problem, still fits the definition.

        Fair enough on most of those areas you mentioned by the way, wars, economical depression, and the pandemic have been exaggerated, with the serious caveat on the latter that that was unclear at the time so you had to err on the side of caution. But it’s kind of the opposite with climate change IMHO. Scientists have kept to rather conservative projections so as to not cause panic and apathy in the general public, but over the last years new measurements have outpaced those predictions at practically every step of the way.