Comments on: Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/04/18/environmental-knowledge-is-inversely-associated-with-climate-change-anxiety/ Truth Exists: Lies Are Made Up Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: penny2 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/04/18/environmental-knowledge-is-inversely-associated-with-climate-change-anxiety/#comment-2373 Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:44:01 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4117#comment-2373 In reply to Mark Finnegan.

why can’t I be one of those people? sigh. I just don’t find any bliss in ignorance, is all I can conclude!

]]> By: Mark Finnegan https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/04/18/environmental-knowledge-is-inversely-associated-with-climate-change-anxiety/#comment-2369 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:09:52 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4117#comment-2369 Hello,
I’m sure that Dr.Goebbels would have agreed that all the really big, effective lies make good use of societal ignorance. Certainly my anecdotal observations of people’s relative environmental knowledge would support the conclusion of the study you cited above. However, ‘ignorance is bliss’ and many people seem more than ready to voluntarily turn off their cognitive reasoning to wrap themselves in the comforting nonsense of what they believe to be the majority opinion. Only to stumble off content to follow like lemmings towards the cliff.

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