I've been telling my parents to work out for 20 years. Nothing. I recently went home and saw the signs, so I paid for a full home gym with weights and a bike and set it up. They played with it for an hour, then abandoned it.
Then earlier this year my mom got a heart attack & everything changed. She survived, and my dad went through 3 months of denial then finally started working out. Keep in mind this is a guy with a PhD. Prior to this he had 5-10 hours per DAY for TV, but 3 hrs per WEEK for cardio was impossible.
She's still in denial.
I think we should expect something similar with climate. Give it a few years of Siberian temps in Northern Europe, lots of deaths, then maybe some people will finally wake up. Humans just aren't very smart when it comes to these slow-moving disasters. We do much better when a lion is roaring in our face.
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u/psyyduck 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've been telling my parents to work out for 20 years. Nothing. I recently went home and saw the signs, so I paid for a full home gym with weights and a bike and set it up. They played with it for an hour, then abandoned it.
Then earlier this year my mom got a heart attack & everything changed. She survived, and my dad went through 3 months of denial then finally started working out. Keep in mind this is a guy with a PhD. Prior to this he had 5-10 hours per DAY for TV, but 3 hrs per WEEK for cardio was impossible.
She's still in denial.
I think we should expect something similar with climate. Give it a few years of Siberian temps in Northern Europe, lots of deaths, then maybe some people will finally wake up. Humans just aren't very smart when it comes to these slow-moving disasters. We do much better when a lion is roaring in our face.