Annette Leßmöllmann
@annetteless.bsky.social
professor in science communication & linguistics @wmk-karlsruhe.de @kit.edu | unit head @rhetai.bsky.social | Deutschlandradio = German public 📻 broadcasting council | co-editor @wisskomm.de | all things 🦉🐦⛵| Threema-ID MERC54UW | Team #FDGO |
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Don’t get me wrong: if the science showed that telling people the world was ending + there’s nothing we can do about it actually catalyzed action, I’d be doing it with the best of them! (though definitely NOT attacking others to do so.)
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
www.resilience.org
September 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Don’t get me wrong: if the science showed that telling people the world was ending + there’s nothing we can do about it actually catalyzed action, I’d be doing it with the best of them! (though definitely NOT attacking others to do so.)
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
Reposted by Annette Leßmöllmann
