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BiasForAction · M
Weather surprises were far worse in the days we didn’t have the national weather service with their state of the art forecasting tools. But today we spend more time marketing the toll or potential toll that weather has or might have on society.
@BiasForAction maybe a little cynical without seeing how things have been more extreme. Funny how drama downplays the currents of life thinking it was normal when it was extremes before.
BiasForAction · M
@awildsheepschase yes extreme weather events are more common today because of climate change but fatalities from extreme events is way down because of better forecasting. Marketing the weather to make normal weather seem unusual is also way up — not cynical at all. We develop new terms to get people to pay attention to events that are not unusual.
@BiasForAction Yet in California insurance companies will not insure houses? Why because of known catastrophes and fires. It's actually like watching capitalism which has abused the environment so long correct itself. Hectares and thousand square kilometres, burn from wildfires.
One day I'll get it, just use new language and make it normal until there is nothing left.
One day I'll get it, just use new language and make it normal until there is nothing left.
BiasForAction · M
@awildsheepschase I don’t understand the point you are trying to make here
Livingwell · 61-69, M
@BiasForAction Snowmagedon! 🤣
BiasForAction · M
@Livingwell good example!