[MCN] Climate: Are the kids telling us that politeness isn't working?

[Lance Olsen]

By Kate Yoder <https://grist.org/author/kate-yoder/> 
https://grist.org/article/the-trees-say-f-you-why-teens-are-cursing-about-climate-change/ <https://grist.org/article/the-trees-say-f-you-why-teens-are-cursing-about-climate-change/>

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Young people in Germany, Argentina, the United States, and basically everywhere walked out of school last Friday as part of the Youth Climate Strike, voicing their frustration and anger that older generations have failed to act on climate change. And their raised voices included f-bombs — lots and lots of f-bombs <https://twitter.com/zoe_sayler/status/1106611697156935682?s=19>.

Several photos of swear-filled signs went viral on Twitter. Students in Massachusetts held up a poster <https://twitter.com/TutusNTinyHats/status/1106609837381689345> that said “Kiss my activist ass.” In London, one handlettered sign <https://twitter.com/MW_Unrest/status/1106655933936091141> said “Why the actual f*** are we studying for a future we won’t even have!”

Granted, many signs from the strike were on the tamer side. One gem <https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1106598238180773890> came from a crowd-shy teen who braved a protest in Minnesota: “So bad [that] even introverts are here!”

2004
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 More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century. 

Gerald A. Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi. 
Science, 13 AUGUST 2004

2008
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"All organisms live within a limited range of body temperatures …. Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, behaviors and competitiveness."
 
Hans O. Pörtner and Anthony P. Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. 
SCIENCE 31 OCTOBER 2008       VOL 322

2009
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"Observed heat wave intensities in the current decade are larger than worst-case projections."

Auroop R. Gangulya, et al. Higher trends but larger uncertainty and geographic variability in 21st century temperature and heat waves. 
PNAS, September 15, 2009.

2013
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“  … organisms have a physiological response to temperature, and these responses have important consequences …. biological rates and times (e.g., growth, reproduction, mortality and activity) vary with temperature.”
 
Anthony I. Dell, Samraat Pawar and Van M. Savage, Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy.
Journal of Animal Ecology 2013 
   
1970  
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“What can be said with some assurance is that there is a unique and nearly ubiquitous compound, with the empirical formula H(2960)O(1480)C(1480)N(16)P(1.8)S, called living matter.  Its synthesis, on an oxidized and uncarboxylated earth, is the most intricate feat of chemical engineering ever performed - and the most delicate operation that people have ever tampered with.”

Edward S. Deevey, Jr.  Mineral Cycles. 
Scientific American, September 1970.

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“That social influences shape every person’s practices, judgments and beliefs is a truism to which anyone will readily assent."

“How, and to what extent, do social forces constrain people’s opinions and attitudes? This question is especially pertinent in our day.”

Solomon E. Asch. Opinions and Social Pressure.

Scientific American. November 1955

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“Thirty-five years ago, Yale psychologist Irving Janis published an essay in the Yale Alumni Magazine explaining how a group of intelligent people working together to solve a problem can sometimes arrive at the worst possible answer.”

"Members consider loyalty to the group the highest form of morality.”

“Nobody today says, My area is groupthink. But what emerged subsequent to groupthink was an area called "judgment and decision making," which is one of the most important areas in all of psychology. In fact Danny Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize based on his research into how rational people make irrational decisions.

Philip Zimbardo '59PhD
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University

https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/1947/a-brief-history-of-groupthink





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