Can we tackle #climatechange without fully believing in it? The medical history of germ theory gives hope that we can.
Many people -- even doctors -- in the 19th century were germ skeptics: they just didn't believe these new theories of tiny, invisible germs that could cause disease, whatever scientists said. But these doctors adopted public health measures because they worked, and reduced deadly diseases like cholera and tuberculosis.
https://theconversation.com/can-humanity-address-climate-change-without-believing-it-230936
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Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it is possible
In the 19th century, many doctors might not have believed germ theory, but they switched to using protective methods anyway for a simple reason.The Conversation
C. Lambeth
in reply to The Conversation U.S. • • •Just have to point out that one does not *believe* in #ClimateChange as if it were a religious article of faith.
One either *accepts reality* or they reject it.
#ClimateCrisis
SewBlue
in reply to The Conversation U.S. • • •They believed in miasma.
Smells.
It was the stink of a river, and fear of it, that led to sewers. The solution to both miasma and sanitation was the same. It wasn't, "we can make progress anyway," it was a shared goal on both sides.
Climate change is different because huge wealth is based in oil. Huge wealth was not lost when we stopped dumping poo on the streets. The rich benefited from sanitation as much as the poor, while today many rich people and entire regions of the world will loose power if we solve the problem.
It is not science. It is power and class.
Koen 🇺🇦
in reply to The Conversation U.S. • • •Runyan50
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