perhaps this clusterfuck is necessary for people to wake up to the fact that climate change is a big problem that needs to be addressed head on!!!
seems when times are good people don’t want to hear bad news because they don’t want anything to kill the happy mood BUT according to research when people are in a bad mood they might be more willing to listen and have an open mind about bad news???
[quote] The Ostrich Effect
…Information aversion is one of many, many domains where human behavior seems to deviate from the models of economists. Instead of doing the rational thing, learning as much as possible about something, many of us do the opposite. We stick our heads in the sand. And this is true for more than just financial information.
…The bigger the potential good news, the more likely volunteers were to pay. The studies show that people are hungry for information when information is pleasant.
…just as the researchers had expected, volunteers were more likely to pay money to avoid getting highly unpleasant information
…Another thing the researchers found – students who were in a good mood were more likely to avoid information than those in a bad mood. This may seem surprising, but it actually makes complete sense. When you’re in a good mood, do you really want to ruin how you feel
