Jennifer Lawrence... mesmerizing, no???
Posted on 10/01/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by oblomov
Last week’s People's Climate March drew 400,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan and a great deal of international attention to a subject of dire urgency. But some were skeptical about the event’s overall significance. “The march slogan was, ‘to change everything, we need everyone,’ which is telling, because it won’t change everything, because it didn’t include everyone,” wrote David Roberts of Grist. “Specifically, it won’t change American politics because it didn’t include conservatives.” True enough.
If there weren’t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change — a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions — the political situation would be very different. So if any progress on climate change is going to be made through the American political system — apart from executive orders by Democratic presidents — it is going to have to somehow involve convincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.
How do you do that? The answer has more to do with psychology than politics.
The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. But the climate activist community has broadly failed to understand just how differently conservatives and liberals see the world on certain issues, and, as a result, just how radically different messages targeting conservatives should look.
Related Stories How to Win Your Next Political Argument Awareness Is Overrated “Although climate scientists update, appropriately, their models after ten years of evidence, climate-science communicators haven’t,” said Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale who studies how people respond to information challenging their beliefs. Luckily, social and political psychologists are on the case.
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Pardon, who is that?
Psychology on this = Bull...
Tactic = create fear in the uninformed voter
Didn’t PT Barnum say that there was a Democrat born every minute???
Get a social psych textbook, used. Same psych that got people to recycle. Actually should be online. search for social psychology and recycling. Also hitler and coercion.
Maybe we can build a special laser-tunnelling segmented train thing and send it into the planet's core, where the crew can explode a series of nuclear devices to make the core spin slower!
That’s a good idea. ;-)
Jennifer Lawrence... mesmerizing, no???
“They see how it works on lefties and think it will work on Conservatives. :-)”
we need to find a set of appropriate alternatives to the word THINK to refer to to what the lefties do....
Wow. what kind of weather and volcanoes can be expected when the poles switch?
My thought was a little simpler; tell the truth instead of lying. They freak out the leftists with pictures of the Statue of Liberty floating away. If they emphasized the likelihood of marginally arable land becoming productive, they might catch conservatives’ interest. Then they’d only have to show how bad that would be!
Probably what we’re already seeing but more of it.
They just can’t get their message out.
Frontal lobotomy?
More like “bullet to the base of the skull”.
LOL I usually go to the source link and read the posts or reply there too and my response was the same as yours.
Simple scientific fact. No agenda. No politics. Not gonna happen.
Of course, I refuse to sign up so it wouldn’t allow me to post. bah. love discus or whatever its called.
Only one. But the lightbulb really has to want to change.
HF
They are”communists” they now want to ruin the economy and freedom over a completely ambiguous concept of “ Climate change” simply because they lied about “global Warming” as the earth was cooling. Most thinking people totally reject these kooks. They have screwed up our electricity costs but this will be changed very soon. Actually liberalism has miserably failed on all fronts— from healthcare— ebola control, immigration, foreign policy, Al Qaeda (AKA islamic state, korasan, al nusra mulim brotherhood— all wahhabi Sunnis) . Liberalism is a complete failure on all fronts.
If the geniuses are so smart, wouldn’t they be better to take their “case” to China?
More people, more pollution, thus more “global warming” er, climate change
Everything you said previously, is summed up in the last statement.
“Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously”
Conservatives WILL, WHEN that change takes place and becomes a “Truth”. So rather than try to ‘convince’ the same people with new lies, they ought to be head-shrinking those who concocted such an elaborate LIE.
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