It was a brave, if perhaps scientifically obvious, experiment – to convey messages about the unfolding climate crisis via the regular local TV weather forecasts seen by viewers in the conservative heartland of Iowa. It culminated in the meteorologist involved receiving death threats and exiting the state.
Stupid people exist everywhere but americans are fucking unhinged. I dont understand how can climate change be a political issue in the US. How can you claim that climate change is a Biden hoax, when Putin and Xi Jinping have talked about this being an issue.
The vast majority of Americans have been subjected to a massive multi-decade multi-approach propaganda campaign, and they parrot what has been forced fed into their brains. It’s organized and has been pushed on them by their local church, Christian news outlets, Fox News, local GOP politics, and national news outlets they watch or read. None of this is by accident, and has been pushed on them since before my childhood in the 70s. It took a long time to hit critical mass, but it hit, and at the worst time possible.
America is a big place my friend and not all of it is Iowa. I’m from Massachusetts and Iowa is about as far away from me as Paris is to Moscow. Please don’t be so quick to generalize us all.
It isnt just 1 dude, this dude is an expression of a movement that has a president/presidential candidates that support his point of view. The only other climate change “skeptic” leader that i am familiar with is Bolsonaro. In Europe, i am pretty sure all mainstream candidates agree on this, even Orban.
It’s an emotional issue for many Americans, as so much of our lifestyle is based on ready and abundant access to fossil fuels. I would say many are currently in the first stage of grief, “denial”.
It’s unimaginably stupid and sad. Those people will face the consequences of human-induced climate change. But you know what? They then will blame someone else for it - secret government experiments, reptiloids, migrants, you name it
I think in part, they don’t want to accept any culpability for what’s happening. Even if they’re not in charge of the large corporations driving climate change, they’ve supported their actions for so long that they feel like any attack on “the way we’ve always done it” is an attack on them personally. So they’re very eager to find anything else to blame it on because it frees them from feeling any guilt.
And the other big part is plain old drinking the kool aid. They’ve been exposed to propaganda against climate change for a very long time. It’s extremely normalized, especially in certain locations (like the one this weather man was in).
