Commentary: Netflix's Don't Look Up sounds warning bells over climate change denial - CNA

MYTH #4: THE ECONOMY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ESLE

Taking action to slow climate change will be expensive, but not acting has extraordinary costs – in lives lost as well as property.

Consider the costs of recent Western wildfires. Boulder County, Colorado, lost nearly 1,000 homes to a fire on Dec 30, 2021, after a hot, dry summer and fall and almost no rain or snow.

A study of California’s fires in 2018 – another hot, dry year – when the town of Paradise burned, estimated the damage, including health costs and economic disruption, at about US$148.5 billion.

When people say we can’t take action because action is expensive, they are in denial of the cost of inaction.

MYTH #5: OUR ACTIONS SHOULD ALWAYS ALIGN WITH OUR SOCIAL IDENTITY

In a politically polarised society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes.

In the case of beliefs about science, this can have dire consequences – as the world has seen with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the US alone, more than 825,000 people with COVID-19 have died while powerful identity groups actively discourage people from getting vaccines or that could protect them.

Viruses are oblivious to political affiliation, and so is the changing climate. Rising global temperatures, worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group.

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